Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [prep] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Is that the normal length of time he goes for ? ’ |
2 | The real issue over time I actually think is affordability of housing which relates directly , not to some sort of magic dogma of any sort but relates to the supply of housing , the supply of housing both in the public and in the private sector and it is the supply side of housing where this government has fallen down . |
3 | He , too , seemed visibly affected by the brief amount of time he had been able to spend with his brother . |
4 | And now that I thought about it , I had vaguely wondered at the ‘ good time ’ I had made on my walk from the cottage , and at the leisurely stretch of time I had had on the island . |
5 | In the short space of time it took him to walk across the room arm-in-arm with Mme de Ratho , he thought he saw … . |
6 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
7 | At least for the short period of time he expected the combat to last . |
8 | I mean , I 'd had the feeling before , a bit , the first couple of times I went up on the End , it was that much closer to the spindle . |
9 | The first couple of times she 'd arrived at a rendezvous and then lost her nerve , backing out before anyone could approach her ; but then she 'd tried getting herself a little drunk beforehand , and from then on the doors were flung open and she was away . |
10 | The includers are not always merely disinterested advocates of a philosophy , but people who have become so through experience , through the sheer amount of time they spend with members of the excluded social group . |
11 | In the same space of time she had married , embarked on a new and totally alien job , had a baby , celebrated her twenty-first birthday , and then had a second child — all momentous events in anyone 's life , without the other pressures she was having to cope with . |
12 | The City took a dim view of what it regarded as the inordinate amount of time it took for the group to return a profit there . |