Example sentences of "but [prep] [adj] time [pers pn] have " in BNC.

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1 He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime .
2 It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’
3 The whole performance had taken no more than a minute , but in that time he 'd succeeded in turning the Chamber 's table into a fish-market gutter .
4 ‘ New linguistics ’ , for us , included books on English by , , and ; but at that time we had not caught up with the new developments associated with .
5 I often wished later that I had named Trotsky instead , because his principles were more in accord with the way I felt about the place by the time I left , but at that time I had never even heard of him .
6 It is no good throwing things at them when they are safely in their dug-outs and shelters , but at some time they have to come out into the open , if only to change their clothes and appearance , and that is when we can get at them .
7 A week later he was dead , but by that time they had both been shipped off to England .
8 But by that time she had married a car-worker from Cowley , was four months ' pregnant , and was eventually to become the mother of four lovely children — three girls and one boy .
9 Speelman had to give up his queen to avoid being mated , but by that time he had so many pieces for it that he was still able to draw comfortably .
10 Lowell , hearing her voice through the bedroom window , dressed hastily and splashed his face with cold water , but by this time she had gone .
11 There was other stuff in similar vein but by this time I had my hand on the Yale latch and was opening the door .
12 Indeed , I did not deserve so kind a one , but by this time you have received my last .
13 At the time of its merger with Powick , in the closing stages of the rundown of the latter hospital , the fusing of specialisms was seen to offer many advantages , but by this time it had already been decided to resettle residents in permanent community hostels .
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