Example sentences of "[noun] for a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought that he lost his hold on sanity for a time then ; he knew , later , that the black despair and the agony of loneliness had closed about him fully , and for an unmeasurable time while his reason spun wildly out of control . |
| 2 | When two blocks of the same polymer are brought together and held at a temperature just above the T g for a time t , interdiffusion of the chains takes place from each block across the interface ( see figure 12.6 ) thereby joining the blocks together . |
| 3 | Frustrations will cloud your horizons for a time but you will shake them off and emerge well pleased with your efforts . |
| 4 | But er it would cause chaos for a time |
| 5 | Finally it is stored in casks for a time which varies according to the final requirements , since pale and bitter ales take longer to mature than mild ales . |
| 6 | The bitterness of war put an end to the beautifying of houses for a time . |
| 7 | To be fair , these materials performed a useful function for a time in the propellers of Spitfires and similar aircraft . |
| 8 | It filled you , with glory for a time , but the glory soon departed and then it left upon your spirit , oh , the most appalling ravages . |
| 9 | J. had been with the now famous 617 Squadron for a time , and in talking about this he was able to furnish me with details of an incident which I had vaguely heard of while I was at Bourn . |
| 10 | Himself an illegitimate son of Mary 's father , James V , and a collaborator in the murder of Darnley , Moray held on to his captive for a time in that Loch Leven castle where the queen had also been imprisoned . |
| 11 | Before 1781 it had consisted of only eight houses , but in that year the Strutts — who had gone into partnership for a time with the then-needy Arkwright — built the large cotton mill that still stands there . |
| 12 | 681 to Malmesbury ( CS 59 : S 71 ) , and a certain Berhtwald , possibly the nephew of Aethelred , who befriended Wilfrid for a time c . |
| 13 | Data General , which offered NeXT workstations for use with its AViiON servers for a time , says it is working with NeXT to make NeXTstep available on its line of Dasher II 486 personal computers . |
| 14 | It played on his mind for a time and eventually he had to work out a kind of therapy to get her out of his brain . |
| 15 | COUNTY councillor David Clark warned of significant changes to bus services affecting Liss residents at the parish council annual general meeting last week , saying that there was bound to be some confusion for a time . |
| 16 | Throughout her reign , and particularly in its first decade or so , noble factions and the struggles between them did much to restrict her freedom of action : in 1772–73 the conflict at court between the rival Panin and Orlov parties for a time deprived her almost completely of any such freedom . |
| 17 | ‘ Let's keep our presents for a time . |
| 18 | ‘ Let's keep our presents for a time . ’ |
| 19 | Nothing happened with the turbine , but the V8 got as far as running in prototype form in the James Bond Esprit , which Rudd used as his personal car for a time . |
| 20 | For this reason Simons argues that self-evaluation should be isolated from accountability demands for a time , although she also believes that school self-evaluation could provide the most positive form of accountability procedure in the long term . |
| 21 | Despite the entry for a time of media conglomerates such as the Mirror Group and Thomsons into the West African press , I think it is still fair to say that the primary motivation for producing a newspaper in Nigeria is political rather than commercial . |
| 22 | The improvement in medical knowledge and other changes of recent times made marriage a more stable institution for a time than it was in the Middle Ages . |
| 23 | Yet Brandt , born illegitimate , exiled under the Nazis , who had even become a Norwegian citizen for a time after the war , had come through many trials . |
| 24 | There was a shadow hanging over Bourn for a time and nothing was fun any more . |
| 25 | I am sure that if we could have met , all estrangement would have vanished instantly ; but , having to rely on the written word ( and that in the cramped space of air-letters which took so long to come and go ) , and missing expression of face and tone of voice , to which we were both very sensitive , we kept up our guard for a time . |
| 26 | These will be heavy in some western areas at first , then spread to other central and southern areas for a time . |
| 27 | They included , roughly speaking , the earth 's London face being away from the sun for a time , the absence of any light source like that of the sun , in the right place at the right time , and conditions having to do with the behaviour of light . |
| 28 | I decided to take a lot of the fruit , and to put it to dry in the sun for a time . |
| 29 | Berwick was well placed to withstand siege for a time ; but two score thousand people take a deal of feeding , and provisions began to grow short despite severe rationing . |
| 30 | The original entries for 995 and 996 may have been lost , and it says nothing of the hostile relations which probably existed with Normandy for a time , and only hints at the troubles in the Irish Sea mentioned above . |