Example sentences of "in [noun] [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had rung through to the Swan Hotel in Stratford to set a revised time of arrival at 6.15 p.m. ; but by the look of things it was going to be , in Wellington 's words , ‘ a damn close-run thing ’ . |
| 2 | The visitors ' early grip in midfield assured a testing time of it for the home defence , and they ought to have secured a greater half-time advantage than that supplied them by Mixu Paatelainen 's glorious second-minute header . |
| 3 | The Agriculture Minister , Mr John Gummer , and the Scottish Secretary , Mr Malcolm Rifkind , celebrated the small gains they had been able to negotiate , but admitted that the industry in Britain faced a tough time in the coming year . |
| 4 | But ‘ catch-up ’ in science takes a long time , and the legacy of that Stalinist assault persists in the USSR 's current backwardness in genetic engineering ; it is probably also reflected in the poor agricultural productivity of the country . |
| 5 | Memory , the dynamic of past consciousness , can translate into resistance in order to shape a new time to come . |
| 6 | This means that the organisation of the units will have to be established in order to gauge the available time . |