Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] [det] time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 … or is it just another of those little habits ( much favoured by men ) that seem to flourish at this time of year .
2 A sophisticated burglar-alarm system has aided overnight and weekend security and although the caretaker is not on call from 11am to 3.30pm the levels of demand have fallen during this time as a direct result of his monitoring skills .
3 It has taken an awful long time to come to fruition — and appears to have needed the departure of founder Ken Olsen to come to fruition , but Digital Equipment Corp is finally to start marketing Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes to major companies in the US , mirroring the arrangement the two companies have had for some time in Europe .
4 You therefore get an increasing tangle of bureaucratic instructions which seek to legislate for an endless series of unlikely events which have occurred at some time in the organization 's past .
5 I am delighted to have heard anything worthwhile by Schillings , whose music I have known for some time in piano-vocal scores but have not encountered in performance .
6 It will be a very low level of inflation , lower than we have known at any time in recent years , and steady sustainable growth leading to secure jobs , sustaining the Conservative party in government for many years .
7 One practice we have followed for some time in mid-week housegroups is to follow up and apply further what has been taught on Sunday .
8 We have waited for some time for any scheme , let alone one that would justify being called better than the proposals of 1979 .
9 Modest chain-link fences have existed for some time in the border cities of El Paso and Brownsville , Texas .
10 Most of us have dieted at some time in our lives , and have been able to stick to the new regime quite rigidly for a little while .
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