Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Seeing as you 're on your own for so much of the time . ’ |
| 2 | She kept wanting to cry , as she had with Stephen , as she had for so much of the time since Timothy Gedge had come into their lives . |
| 3 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 4 | In the case of Kenya , Kenyatta 's age of almost seventy at the time of independence in 1964 meant that the succession issue was alive from the start . |
| 5 | So the normal man in the street wo n't see a great deal until very much nearer the time when it opens next spring . |
| 6 | The quality of those crosses was nt up to much most of the time — but some credit has to go to their keeper who was taking everything within 12–13 yards of his line … |
| 7 | So come over here one at a time . |
| 8 | Well I 'll be staying over there some of the time , but then I 'll be travelling every day |
| 9 | Patients who had relapsed all had a DAI of at least four at the time of relapse . |
| 10 | We fought like cat and dog the whole time we were together — or at least most of the time , ’ she added , remembering , ‘ he made my life an absolute misery ! ’ |
| 11 | In the first plant , Melman said , machines are down for at least half of the time . |
| 12 | In fact I think there is overwhelming evidence to show that at least some of the time a ouija board can be a device ( like a crystal ball or a pendulum ) for releasing the forces of the subconscious in an irresponsible way , which can cause untold damage to the human personality . ’ |
| 13 | The committee is very pleased with attendances ‘ this term ’ , which seems to indicate that we got it right … at least some of the time . |
| 14 | I rather feel that men ( and women ) who gently imply that they 'd quite like their partners to keep some items of clothing on should probably be humoured at least some of the time . ’ |
| 15 | A blustery wind made control very difficult and for too much of the time the ball was high in the air . |
| 16 | Meanwhile Bleek 's relationships involve a large number of bedroom scenes which for too much of the time seem to present the women as carnal accessories passively accepting his attentions . |
| 17 | We 're there for the Na-Nazi riots — but for too much of the time we 're not . |
| 18 | It does , but the stars , although they 're moving fast by terrestrial standards , are moving very slowly by comparison with the vast distances we 're talking about , and they do n't change their distances by very much in the time that we 're watching . |