Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is a bucking of current trends with the growth in spending outstripping rises in income for the first time in three years . |
| 2 | Well , not to kill the world , but they they there are enough bombs in existence at the present time to obliterate the world about three or four times over so we 're told , so we read no snow out here at all Danny is there ? |
| 3 | Now we have three shirts in existence at the same time : England wore the World Cup strip at the Lord 's Taverners sevens , the traditional strip at the Selkirk sevens and will don the new kit against Canada . |
| 4 | The consuming element in Lloyd Webber 's rapture was apparently her ability to soar to F above top C , play Rachmaninov on the piano , and sing in Russian at the same time . |
| 5 | IBM Corp is expected to announce today that it is switching to what it calls value-based pricing for mainframe software , charging on either a per-user or elapsed time used basis ; the company issued a cryptic statement in response to the Financial Times story alleging that Louis Gerstner had put the break-up of IBM on hold , saying that Gerstner had not said such a thing for public consumption and that he had no plans to do so . |
| 6 | The Primitive Methodist chapel on Westgate was built in 1871 to replace a smaller chapel on Quaker Lane , and a campaign is in progress at the present time to raise funds for its refurbishment . |
| 7 | The designs for Primavera , which was in preparation at the same time , were proving a problem . |
| 8 | In contrast to the last time she had spoken to him , his mood seem positively sunny . |
| 9 | Where a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party is representing this party in parliament for the first time the above ( normal ) procedure shall be set in motion not earlier than eighteen months after his or her election as Member of Parliament . |
| 10 | All these contributions and more , in addition to the required time , must be forthcoming if the committees and interfaces are in fact to produce the close coupling and co-ordinated collaboration these firms need . |
| 11 | He is under 13 stone in weight for the first time since his teens . |
| 12 | I blush in light of the many times we have floundered recently , not to mention my straying . |
| 13 | When , for example , establishment actor Raymond Massey saw James Dean in action for the first time on the set of East of Eden , emitting as he did a stream of sexual and genital adjectives , Massey stormed off the set declaring , ‘ I have never experienced anything like this in my entire life . |
| 14 | Krabbe 's comeback GERMANY 'S double world sprint champion Katrin Krabbe will be back in action for the first time since the lifting of her doping ban , at a meeting on her home Neubrandenburg track on June 13 . |
| 15 | The following version is useful to give children the opportunity to channel excess energy — everybody is in action for the whole time it is being played . |
| 16 | ‘ We have lost two League games in succession for the first time since August . |
| 17 | Rangers ' goalkeeper , who has a valid claim to the title of Britain 's best by his displays in Europe this season , has missed two matches in succession for the first time since joining the club from Hibs and will not train today . |
| 18 | Next day — possibly anticipating that the fighter defences had been crippled by the attrition of the 22nd. , the Axis appeared in force for the first time in some days as a further convoy reached the island . |
| 19 | Referring to Lord Prosser 's judgment and what it would mean , Mrs Smith gave an example of two women in labour at the same time . |
| 20 | Deputies from the SPA , in opposition for the first time , abstained from the vote . |
| 21 | However , partly perhaps in recognition of the hard times ahead for all purveyors of management education , the two bodies have settled their differences and in January 1982 established a common single body , the Association of Management Education Centres ( AMEC ) . |
| 22 | Although the KDP were also in revolt at the same time , there were too many differences between them for there to be any prospect of co-ordinated action . |
| 23 | The extent of their happiness as they read and wrote , and walked the Dorset lanes , was in proportion to the unsettled times they had often known until then . |
| 24 | He sold Grove Chance , then in foal for the first time , to his neighbour Percy Thomas , but when she died shortly after giving birth to Norton 's Coin he bought back the foal . |
| 25 | Widgery 's attacks on swinging London more fanciful and , in keeping with the phallic times , more vitriolic . |
| 26 | The article also states that the burden of proof that a standard term has been individually negotiated falls on the seller or supplier , but given the provisions set out in the previous paragraph , it is hard to see how this burden can ever be discharged , unless there has been an individual negotiation at which both parties actually discussed and wrote out the clause in question for the first time . |
| 27 | Business strength is a measure of the proficiency with which the firm deals with all aspects of the specific product/market complex in question at the present time . |
| 28 | We should look seriously at such ideas , because , unless we say that everybody should be in work at the same time , we can not just forget the pool of unemployed . |
| 29 | Steps should be taken to ensure that Allied PW held in Russian Area are transferred to us in exchange at the same time . |
| 30 | Many pistoliers will be fighting in battle for the first time . |