Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [prep] [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I had a studio there for two months and during that time I got all the ideas together for the record .
2 My doctor offered me a course of anti-depressant tablets and by this time I felt my children were becoming immune to antibiotics .
3 Do n't worry , Billy , I wo n't stay more than a few hours and by that time I 'll know one way or the other .
4 Actually , we were probably more technical than we are now , 'cos we had a year 's break between the two bands and in that time we lost all our talent , so we had to start again .
5 I was with Jack for nearly two years and during that time I first met Greg Norman .
6 I 've had the same look for the last 7–8 years and during that time I 've put on some weight .
7 JOAN Bassett has been the conductor of the Hadley Court Singers for over eight years and in that time she has welded this group of 45 singers based at Haddington into a flexible corporate whole motivated at all times by her own perceptive musicianship .
8 But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies .
9 He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime .
10 Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second .
11 This has created severe financial problems and at one time he was heavily in debt to the bank .
12 ‘ Career breaks would enable women to choose to take five , six or seven years out to have their families but in that time they would be kept in touch , ’ said Miss Armstrong .
13 She was tackling this man on his own terms and at some time she would be doing it head-on .
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