Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] of time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is that the normal length of time he goes for ? ’ |
| 2 | He , too , seemed visibly affected by the brief amount of time he had been able to spend with his brother . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 … . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At least for the short period of time he expected the combat to last . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |