Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [prep] [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | A.H.Q. expected to detect these transports east of Malta at extreme range and by that time I could spare some Marylands while still meeting the P.R . |
2 | He had spent less than an hour in the Dragon and during that time he had succeeded in needling at least four men . |
3 | There was a certain amount of movement and noise and at that time he was unconscious . ’ |
4 | By the time Johnny moved back to Brighton he had spent over 20 years at Selhurst Park and during that time he had made an invaluable contribution to Palace 's progress both on and off the field , for which he will long be remembered with gratitude . |
5 | We flew for an hour and in that time I completed a reel of film in my camera . |
6 | He had separate orders , each locksmith and at this time I 'd done all the ord whatsit er and this and that and the other and I said what 's next ? |
7 | No , I can only think , I think there was one game where he was available , but , he was a sort of a late availability and by that time we already had |
8 | It is nineteen months since Richard Ryder was appointed Government Chief Whip and in that time he has risen to become John Major 's right-hand man . |
9 | You see so a branch of the er London paper and at that time he was editor of the paper , they came up together , found it here . |
10 | After independence 200,000 Europeans fled the city and for some time it appeared to be uninhabited , a city decimated by plague . |
11 | They managed to send Richard to school and at some time he attracted the notice of the lawyer-priest Thomas de Nevill , later Archdeacon of Durham , who gave him a grant to study at Oxford when he was about thirteen or fourteen years old . |
12 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |
13 | I was with him constantly for a whole year and in that time I never saw him with anyone , man or woman . |
14 | As part of the training programme , you had to spend this period underground , of which eighteen months had to be spent on the coal face and during that time you did lots of jobs that mineworkers did . |
15 | Marthus did n't actually foresee this erm , this leap in from technology and as a result he was basing his predictions on past trends so if past trends had continued would have been , he w , he would been correct but because erm , agriculturalists started to erm , use technology and at that time it was a very sort of low technology , but nevertheless it would , would 've production dramatically you know , you do n't think of drainage as being particularly high tech but it can increase the , the yield on a crop sort of four or five times and so si simple drainage systems would be introduced erm ro rotations were being introduced , again rotations you think of being fairly straightforward but erm prior to the agricultural revolution rotations were n't used rotations can improve the fertility of the soil and er yields as well right okay , so agriculture produces a homogenous product , by and large and er as there is n't the scope , the product differentiation , and there is n't the scope for specialisation because we 'd need a farm the size of Europe to feed the world with , w with wheat . |