Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both meetings came at an important time in Russia 's relationship with the rest of the world and at a critical time for world peace and stability . |
| 2 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 3 | When the hounds checked for the fourth time and could no. find again no matter how the huntsman held them round , Nora and Sir George withdrew . |
| 4 | Parallel procedural changes occurred at the same time in the Senate , but other factors were at work there too . |
| 5 | Several other firms emerged at the same time and by the same process , such as Lamalie Associates in 1967 from Booz , Allen & Hamilton , and Ward Howell and Canny Bowen , in 1951 and 1954 respectively , from McKinsey . |
| 6 | The Institute of Economic Affairs had for a long time been polemicising against the extension of state activity on the grounds that it restricted choice , led to dependency and reduced the motivation to work , and fostered economic inefficiency in comparison with ‘ private enterprise ’ . |
| 7 | After twenty minutes , three trains arrived at the same time . |
| 8 | Folk myths and wisdoms survived for a long time . |
| 9 | on quite a few occasions , Windows ran until the first time I rebooted the computer . |
| 10 | ‘ For man knoweth not his time ; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net , and as the birds that are caught in the snare ; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time , when it falleth suddenly upon them . ’ |
| 11 | Brasher Boots arrived about the same time as the K-SB3 , but were developed from the running shoe . |
| 12 | With the widespread translation of Early Irish stories into English around the turn of the century a younger generation of Irishmen and women discovered for the first time a fresh and potent source of images to define their sense of nationality . |
| 13 | On the seventh of September the clouds broke for the first time , the wind subsided , and the sun came out . |
| 14 | The phylogenetic tree indicates that the taxa diverged at the same time as did the mitochondrial LSUrRNA introns ( Fig. 6 ) . |
| 15 | Lane 1 of each gel contains DNA only , the remaining lanes contain samples incubated for the following time intervals : 1,2,3,4,5,7,9,11,15,20,25,30 , 40,50,60,90,120 min . |
| 16 | So far as more academic scholarship was concerned , the Nag Hammadi Scrolls appeared for the first time in English translation in 1977 , and within two years had inspired Elaine Pagels ' best-seller The Gnostic Gospels . |