Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [verb] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scholars in this field had for some time been engaged in a debate over the importance of acquired and inherited personality traits in behaviour . |
| 2 | Some views expressed at this time were not dissimilar to those of the ‘ Li Yi Zhe ’ document , whose authors were released in February 1979 . |
| 3 | If we assume that , in the transition region , the restrictions to motion still present in the sample , allow only a few segments to move in some time interval , say 10 s , then considerably fewer will have moved if the observation time is less than 10 s . |
| 4 | Towards the mid-1970s Thai boxing was introduced into the United States , where it has become very popular , partly because it resembles another art introduced at that time , called full-contact karate . |
| 5 | This train ran for some time , but was not considered entirely successful . |
| 6 | Few people believed at that time that a bill would be obtained to make a line down Corvedale . |
| 7 | Few people travelled at that time who did n't have to . |
| 8 | With some reason did another Frenchman remark at this time that Britain had become no more than a colony of the American film industry . |
| 9 | If another image occurs during this time , we can not perceive any interval between the first and second images and they appear continuous . |
| 10 | At this point the coral was extremely stressed , in fact large parts of this colony died at that time . |
| 11 | Such arrangements have for some time been permitted so long as clients are fully informed of the nature of the company and the profits go to the firm . |
| 12 | No such guide existed at that time ; but summarisation of legal matters in any comprehensive yet comprehensible form is a difficult and risky business , so that the task was not one which the writer regarded with relish . |
| 13 | Do you know how much flowers cost at this time of the year ? |
| 14 | All of you who read these words have at some time in your youth dreamt the biggest dreams . |
| 15 | Where similar finds are consistently found in layers dated to the same period of time , it can be assumed that these finds belong to that time period . |
| 16 | According to Eknomska politika ( 20 July 1987 ) , these agreements covered at that time about half of the value of exports to the convertible currency area , so that only about half of these exports were generating an inflow of foreign exchange . |
| 17 | Taking the donor agencies as a whole , about 9,000 evaluations of individual projects have been made since 1970 , probably accounting for about 12 per cent of all projects launched since that time . |
| 18 | Many schools preferred at that time to have two paymasters rather than one , but in 1926 they were obliged to choose : those which thereafter received grants from the Board of Education in London , and not through the Local Education Authority , were reasonably enough known as direct-grant schools . |
| 19 | The invasion scare passed and the Troop went north to do independent training , as all Troops did at that time . |
| 20 | It is not surprising that many fish breed at this time , although cooler , fresh water is part of the trigger . |
| 21 | There are many manuscripts dating from that time , and a few from the earlier period , starting 1140 . |
| 22 | For many people living through that time , 1968 was the unforgivable pin that pricked the bubble : and with the deflation of the great illusion that the 1960s was a perpetual party came the realisation of the cost . |
| 23 | There were controversies about various forms of Church Government and many sects flourished at this time of religious toleration . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've 27 turned out at home and I could bring any of them in for all weather racing at any time . |
| 25 | With the British having more distance to cover at that time than any other nation , including the Americans : ‘ Cable enterprises supplanted the railways as popular investments ’ 2 . |
| 26 | The lunch break was defined as being outside school hours , and so any activities held during that time could be charged for . |
| 27 | In 1536 Sir Ralph Sadler complained : ‘ I think it will be hard to get any bills signed at this time … . |
| 28 | Simon 's own statements made at this time betray a strong representational intent : while rejecting the forms of classic realism , the novel nevertheless retained its mimetic role . |
| 29 | We shall endeavour to maintain prices shown but we reserve the right to increase any price shown at any time without limitation , in which case you will be advised of the revised price at the time of booking : after which the price will be in accordance with our price policy , shown in the Cosmos Consumer Protection Plan on pages 12/13 of this brochure . |
| 30 | The three youngest of Tiller 's own children married at this time . |