Example sentences of "for a [adj] time [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 61 | After leaving the magazine , Caroline worked for a short time in the Cardiff newsroom . |
| 62 | Yes , the cases quoted are clear ones , in which carers have been in the home for a long time , but obviously we would wish to avoid a position in which the carer was in the home for a short time in the expectation that he or she would then be allowed to stay there . |
| 63 | A peaceful calm settles across the Centre for a short time before the parade . |
| 64 | Although the London Borough of Southwark agreed to maintain the level of funding to some of the projects for a short time after the demise of the I. L. E. A. , that support can no longer be guaranteed . |
| 65 | She hovered for a brief time over the trunk of the tree , tears streaming from her eyes , shuddering as the axes continued to cut into the wood , shaking her head from side to side . |
| 66 | For a brief time in the sixteenth century , mercury was supplanted by an extract of the bark of a West Indian tree , Guaiacum . |
| 67 | To paddle around Laguna Chica enjoying the idle drift of time , the depth of natural silence ; to go and rest my head for a last time between the fifteen-foot-high buttresses of Big Tree … |