Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It belongs to a certain time , but it 's been highly praised . ’ |
| 2 | So what do you think about the overall situation as it stands at the present time ? |
| 3 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 4 | For example , it has for a long time been generally accepted by students of organisation that any organisation is likely to need a number of rules and procedures to guide the behaviour of organisational members . |
| 5 | It arrives at a different time from the rest of the mail . |
| 6 | It came at the right time . |
| 7 | In the meantime , my thirteenth birthday was coming up , and it seemed like a good time to revive my request for the perfect present : a bird of prey . |
| 8 | Take That have n't had an easy time of it breaking into the big time . |
| 9 | In May 1947 the Joint Chiefs , while acknowledging that planning had to remain flexible , observed that " it appears at the present time that initial establishment of Allied forces in the Middle East is the most promising course of action " . |
| 10 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 11 | ‘ It seems like a good time to — ’ At the cynical lift of his eyebrows her voice trailed off . |
| 12 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |
| 13 | Written by Colin Sweet of the London-based Centre for Energy Studies , it appeared at a sensitive time when budget wrangling threatened to delay fusion . |
| 14 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
| 15 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |