Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was light years away at the time these alleged crimes took place . |
| 2 | Staying in hospital can be a traumatic experience for young children — as well as having to cope with strange hospital routines or unpleasant treatments , they may also be offered unfamiliar foods just at the time when their appetites are likely to be poor and they need encouragement to eat a healthy , balanced diet . |
| 3 | Poverty , he defined as ‘ having no surplus ’ , i.e. having the bare essentials much of the time , but nothing to spare to provide for a crisis such as unemployment , sickness or death in the family . |
| 4 | They , like the plane , in later years , represented a special link in the canal line between the East Midlands and London , a line for which there were great hopes both at the time of construction at the beginning of the nineteenth century and of its rehabilitation at the end of the century . |
| 5 | Now we talk full pages most of the time . |
| 6 | For centuries before the arrival of Westerners it had been the symbol of the soul and of eternal life ; and for the Chinese , who traded with the southern islands long before the time of Christ , the bird became associated with the phoenix myth — which crept across the continents into the mind of medieval Europe , even before it was known that the world was round . |
| 7 | Er we left at er seventeen minutes to two erm having explained that er we have put a very respectable budget on the table er which was prudence as prudence personified er and that was something we felt the other two groups of the Liberal Democrats were the only ones there at the time er besides them do that we 'd er I have to say to chairman that er the voted it is now being cobbled together er by the other two groups is eight hundred thousand pounds plus er in excess of the budget which the Conservative Group would want to see and just for the record , it 's about the same sum of money that we 've been saving on the fire cover in |
| 8 | To the people from the people who 've gone home ob we hope this 'll only be for a few days and some have gone er to other homes just for the time being . |