Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] in [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our team lost the game by 125 runs , but they reckoned overall it was the most enjoyable day 's cricket they 'd had in a long time . |
| 2 | Rain was impressed by the amount of information he had gathered in a short time . |
| 3 | If the verderers ( or their heirs , if the verderers had died in the mean time ) failed to present their rolls to the judges on the first day of the Forest Eyre , or if their rolls were deficient in any material particular , they were liable to amercement . |
| 4 | Many offenders had died in the mean time , and the sheriff failed to produce others , so that the sessions were adjourned time and time again during the next few years . |
| 5 | I sat in the armchair and was entertained by the funniest and most unorthodox brand of humour I had experienced in the short time in which I had graced the Earth with my presence . |
| 6 | She was unusually alert , for her health had deteriorated in the brief time since the upset of Theda 's near-dismissal . |