Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It started in Fat Harry 's , long after the nominal closing time , across a table littered with empty glasses . |
| 2 | Not necessarily in the fastest possible time of 30 generations , but very fast , nevertheless . |
| 3 | They had , especially in the hard hopeless times of the first half of the century , been fused into a homogeneous mass of the discontented and the oppressed . |
| 4 | An unbridled right to recover overpaid taxes and duties subject only to the usual six-year time bar was , he suggested , unacceptable in modern society . |
| 5 | The government has long made it clear that sterling would enter the Exchange Rate Mechanism during stage one of economic and monetary union which began in July ; it has now done so at the earliest appropriate time . |
| 6 | ‘ We have invested a lot of money in Greenside Place , and we are quite prepared to put something up competitively in the shortest possible time , ’ Mr Peel said . |
| 7 | As you come out of the Blackwall Tunnel , right by the new Financial Times building , there are at least two shut and boarded up pubs . |