Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The old adage is to promote harder during the difficult times , ’ admits Mr Bacon . |
| 2 | Others who had coped well enough to begin with on those scanty mill wages , who had even picked themselves up and patched things together , the first time that demon of bad trade had halved their weekly pay ; the first time there had been sickness and doctors ' bills to eat up anything they had been able to put by during the good times — never much ; the first time a husband had suffered injury at the mill or the foundry , which meant no weekly pay-packet at all . |
| 3 | ( A teenager who forgets to call in at the appointed time may cause real distress ) . |
| 4 | Warwick , 38 , and a veteran of 131 Grands Prix , won the world sportscar championship with Peugeot this year and has been itching for a chance to get back in the big time of Formula One . |
| 5 | Any objective should be realistic or , in other words , possible to achieve successfully within the forecasted time span . |