Example sentences of "in a [noun] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For weeks the newspapers had been full of stories about it , with , over and over again , people describing how well they lived in this country , how much they loved their homeland , how they did everything to strengthen East German socialism — as if there were not several thousand people leaving the country in a panic at the time . |
| 2 | ‘ It did n't help me to have to live in a hotel at the time . |
| 3 | ‘ It did n't help me to have to live in a hotel at the time . |
| 4 | Secondly , there should be a real assault upon the incompetence and inefficiencies of our courts , which would result in a reduction of the time men and women are held on remand and reduce pressure in that way . |
| 5 | How long how many how many men would you need if you want it done in a quarter of the time ? |
| 6 | If he comes up and he says , Well we want this job done in a quarter of the time . |
| 7 | Unaided by technology ( but possibly assisted by an abundance of cheap labour and a convenient absence of red tape ) the Mark II establishment was up and running in a quarter of the time it has taken the current version to proceed from the stage of the second catastrophic fire in 1980 to opening its doors . |
| 8 | If he took the short cut across the beck , he would arrive there in a fraction of the time . |
| 9 | With a combination of every kind of scientific equipment and a psychological ‘ mind over matter ’ approach , he got players fit again in a fraction of the time it took other trainers . |
| 10 | You can brown roasts or bake golden pastries perfectly , in a fraction of the time . |
| 11 | Until more interesting work was available he felt he had no option but to keep the men in his charge fully occupied and if it meant using eight men to undertake a task which could be accomplished in a fraction of the time by a machine , well — the men were n't going anywhere . |
| 12 | Joanne often felt that she could have taught a topic to the whole class in a fraction of the time it was taking them to find it out for themselves . |
| 13 | Luke Hunter was the sort of man who rode roughshod over everyone else 's opinions — if she had been there alone she was sure she could have convinced them in a fraction of the time . |
| 14 | If you lead a hectically busy life , a microwave oven can be a real life- and time-saver , cooking food in a fraction of the time required by a normal oven . |
| 15 | He , more than any other ornithologist , knew what to look for and would be able , with the help of a few hand-picked collectors , to assemble a substantial collection in a fraction of the time it would take should he stay home and await specimens sent by less reliable amateurs . |
| 16 | And although tractors could do the work in a fraction of the time , the shire horses have advantages too . |
| 17 | ‘ The tests were poor discriminators and , in terms of checking on their progress and diagnosing their weaknesses , we could do a far better job ourselves in a fraction of the time , ’ he declared |
| 18 | Young Thomas Cottingham may be in a wheelchair by the time he 's 10 . |
| 19 | The economy could easily be in a mess by the time of the next election . |
| 20 | Brenda says she was in a coma by the time they got her into the hospital . |
| 21 | In one of his experiments , lie detectors were connected to two house plants that had been present in a room at the time of a murder . |
| 22 | One most destructive mode by which vast numbers are destroyed is that of chasing the birds in a boat at the time they shed their primary quill-feathers , when being unable to fly they are soon rowed down and captured ; this practice , which is to be much regretted , is usually resorted to for the sake of the beautiful down with which the breasts are clothed , but not unfrequently is mere wantonness . |