Example sentences of "some time [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took some time for the first volunteers to come forward . |
| 2 | The perfect way to learn a foreign language is to spend some time with the native speakers of that language . |
| 3 | The Flames now have to fit in a home and away Championship decider with the A winners , likely to be Solihull , some time over the three weekends of the promotion play-offs . |
| 4 | If he had been at the Sex of One … party , he must have driven down some time between the small hours-of the Sunday morning and when he rang Keith Battrick-Jones on the Monday morning . |
| 5 | ‘ Everyone gets a chance at runnin' the section at some time durin' the twelve weeks . ’ |
| 6 | Some time during the few days ' leave , when talking about my life — not work , of course — at Bletchley , I must rashly have let slip the fact that occasionally I was tired . |
| 7 | Some time in the darkest hours of the night she had been forced to admit to herself that she was deeply attracted to David Markham , just as she now knew he was to her , but recognising that did n't alter the fact that the situation was impossible . |
| 8 | I suspect that , apart from being a most interesting fish for the hobbyist , at some time in the future scientists may come to look upon this fish as particularly interesting because of its many divergences from the normal Mbuna characteristics — in its habitat , less boisterous behaviour , relatively mute coloration , size dimorphism , sexual precocity , large brood size and small fry . |
| 9 | Some time in the early hours of the morning we cross over what seems to me to be a pontoon bridge , then suddenly we are up to our thighs in water . |
| 10 | Some time in the early hours of the morning , Phil and another crew member , Mike Carsley , were on watch and spotted a target on radar approaching from seaward . |
| 11 | Some time in the early hours of Saturday morning Archie staggered to his feet and said that he 'd have to be on his way . |
| 12 | Some time in the early hours they had reached Madeira . |
| 13 | At first he was surprised at this and only when they referred to him as an ‘ adult ’ did he realize that some time in the previous weeks the last of his juvenile plumage had moulted and his wings now had the rich and glossy glow of an adult golden eagle . |
| 14 | It was very different from when , during my student days , I had spent some time in the specialised wards of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at St Pancras , where patients were treated for cholera , yellow fever , elephantiasis , malaria , leprosy , encephalitis lethargica , and a dozen other diseases that might have originated in the tropics . |
| 15 | One compositor , Jean Henderson whose daughter kindly provided me with information , went into the trade ( in the 1890s , that is some time after the earliest entrants ) straight from the Dean Orphanage , where she had received a good education ( see Plate 1 ) . |
| 16 | India naturally came into focus as a field for Round Table action some time before the other dependencies . |
| 17 | Furthermore , it became clear that a number of the parties would be arriving some time before the three days set aside for the conference , thus giving themselves time to prepare their ground and gauge the mood of fellow guests , though their exact arrival dates were , again , uncertain . |