Example sentences of "and the [adj] time [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first personal bequest she had ever received , and the first time in years that she had cried . |
| 2 | He produced a general landform equation in which landform ( LF ) could be viewed as a function of geologic material ( m ) ; rate of change of geological material , structural factor ( dm/at ) ; rate of erosion ( de/dt ) ; the rate of uplift ( du/dt ) ; and the total time of duration of the process ( t ) in the form LF = , and he then proposed expressions for an erosion factor ( de/dt ) . |
| 3 | Ninety per cent of people in residential care in Newcastle are on income support and the average time to death or discharge in residential care is three years , so his department will be picking up the whole burden by the third year . |
| 4 | He was married twice : the first time in 1739 to Anne Bayne , who died tragically in childbirth four years later , and the second time to Margaret Lindsay with whom he eloped in 1752 in highly romantic circumstances . |
| 5 | ‘ And the second time in Norfolk you took a bullet in the right shoulder and only got away by the skin of your teeth , leaving Kurt Steiner behind . ’ |
| 6 | The effect of these factors was cumulative in that the proportion of patients unhealed at each time point and the mean time to healing increased progressively with the number of risk factors to which the patient was exposed . |