Example sentences of "the [noun] of [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | St Augustine did not explain how the mind could be an accurate chronometer for the timing of external events , but as the pioneer of the study of psychological time he stands in the front rank of those who have contributed to the understanding of our sense of time . |
| 2 | For all the centuries of recorded time it has existed as an art in which style and fashion were set by the taste of an aristocracy ; bourgeois jewellery , peasant jewellery in less precious materials such as we now call costume jewellery , all imitated court fashion … |
| 3 | Just the sort of wrong time you know |
| 4 | At the end of that time they again expressed doubts as to their liability to pay and for the next three years paid under protest . |
| 5 | Mr Edwards also detects caution in employers who are recruiting : ‘ They hire people for a specific period , maybe one or two years , so that at the end of that time they can decide whether or not to renew their contract or make them redundant . |
| 6 | That may be so ; but on the other hand , if the plaintiff 's contention is correct , the solicitor may abstain from delivering his bill for 20 years , and then at the end of that time he may deliver it and sue after the expiration of a month from its delivery . |
| 7 | At the end of that time he came back again . |
| 8 | Towards the end of that time she sent me a letter ( not entirely personal , being printed , in facsimile handwriting ) : |
| 9 | At the end of that time she had learned that Amy was married to an Anglican priest and felt herself trapped and manipulated in a relationship in which she was the inferior partner . |