Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two or three thousand at a time turned out to salute their leaders in the military unison of the raised arm and the clenched fist . |
| 2 | The present texts indicate that the 70 souls of Joseph 's day had risen to two or three million at the time of the Exodus ( Numbers 1 ) and to at least five million in the time of David ( 2 Samuel 24:9 ; 1 Chronicles 21:5 ) . |
| 3 | Fairfax has a couple of gins and tonic ready by the time I have the fire blazing . |
| 4 | And all this at a time when they are undergoing dramatic changes both physically and emotionally — changes which they often find very difficult to deal with . |
| 5 | And all this at a time when China 's leaders are asking the PLA to do a bigger job than ever before . |
| 6 | He looked morose and angry much of the time , ready for-trouble and most people avoided him . |
| 7 | Now , if you did n't feel healthy to start with , and if you feel lethargic and bloated most of the time , your body is not going to notice easily when you overeat . |
| 8 | He celebrated by taking a wicket with his sixth ball and two more by the time he had bowled twenty ; when Hendrick got Lloyd , West Indies were 26 for 4 . |
| 9 | Elspeth was fair-haired , almost blonde , Rebecca was dark but there was something about the eyes they had in common , yet where Elspeth was grave and silent most of the time , Rebecca , or Becky as she was usually called , was lively and voluble . |
| 10 | They spent their honeymoon at rue Roland , by the way — Hugh was the classic brilliant but penniless academic at the time and , to do him credit , he did n't want to take Veronica 's money . |