Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight days after knocking out Errol McDonald on a low-key bill at Bury , the 25-year-old Dudley boxer steps unexpectedly into the big time to take on experienced champion Donovan Boucher , of Canada . |
| 2 | He was n't very fond of the river Wye , for its rocky crevasses had claimed too many young lives even during the short time he had been there . |
| 3 | Infra-red detectors are very effective devices — they react to body heat , and will leave lights on for a predetermined time after they first sense body heat . |
| 4 | It keeps families together during the hard times of the depression . |
| 5 | Similarly , we can say that the purchase of a new machine by a firm is investment — the machine itself will not yield utility to anyone in the current period but will produce ( or help to produce ) consumer goods probably for a long time into the future . |
| 6 | It would become known as the Aladdin Sane Retirement Tour of Great Britain , comprising over 40 appearances and culminating at Hammersmith Odeon for the famous final concert of June 3 , 1973 , when David announced his ‘ retirement ’ and that he would n't perform live concerts again for a long time — not for two or three years at least . |
| 7 | ‘ That condition is that we cut ten minutes out of the running time . ’ |
| 8 | Since the female is only on heat for a few days and the males are often widely scattered , these scents are vital for bringing the sexes together at the right time . |
| 9 | Keegan spelled out the philosophy which is steering the Geordies back to the big time under multi-millionaire chairman Sir John Hall . |
| 10 | 3 Incumbent firms can change prices only within a non-zero time lag . |
| 11 | The philosophy is devastatingly simple , Charlton recognising that he can not hope to improve players technically in the short time available to him before matches . |
| 12 | Women overtake men only in the part- time registrar posts . |
| 13 | We had to put the babies down at a certain time and leave them — it was horrible . |
| 14 | She had to leave the floor , they had to walk , that 's right , they had to walk on the concrete floor without tiles on for a long time |
| 15 | Ian McShane 's roguish antique dealer Lovejoy goes to Prague in search of treasures , Casualty gears up for a busy time and on BBC2 Robbie Coltrane and Fiona Fullerton star in The Bogie Man , about a dangerous fantasist who escapes from a Glasgow hospital . |