Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] time they " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at some future time they may decide they want to . |
| 2 | At some later time they could , by chance , all be in the right half or back in the left half , but it is overwhelmingly more probable that there will be roughly equal numbers in the two halves . |
| 3 | So far most of the conclusions are broadly in line with other studies , but there is a brief , but interesting , discussion about carers ' groups , where the authors state that , contrary to the present emphasis professionals give to self-help , ‘ the last thing ( carers ) wanted to do with the little free time they had was to talk about elderly people ’ . |
| 4 | Like yourself , they will be welcome any time they wish to visit . |
| 5 | It 's funny how many stars seem to harbour similar buried desires perhaps it 's all that time they spend waiting on tables before they get their big break . |
| 6 | They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny . |
| 7 | All this time they had been standing by the front door . |
| 8 | It has to though because if in the pa if they 've had this long-term sort of culture for all this time they need to be given ideas but essentially if their traditional values were so strong they would have rejected what the Communist Party was trying to say , but because they accepted it it meant they ha they did actually have the potential to be revolutionary . |
| 9 | It must be a problem if people sort of leave their children in nurseries all the time cos it 's nice for a short time but for a long long time they 're just not yours are they any more ? |
| 10 | Your parents knew that the very first time they saw me . |
| 11 | And he was so puppyish that first time they came round together to my place . |
| 12 | Somehow Florian 's words must have summoned the memory of that first time they had worked together , long years ago , and that sensation of a shadow falling on her had come from the past . |
| 13 | The only other time they 're paid compensation for loss of earnings , is when they 're sick as a result of an injury received on duty , you know Fire Brigade duty . |
| 14 | Since many kinds of trilobites co-existed at any one time they were probably occupying different ecological niches , behaving in different ways , corresponding with the wide variation in shape that they show . |
| 15 | There must , in fact , be few marriages in which temporary sexual difficulties do not arise and , as we have seen , at any one time they exist for a fair proportion of married adults . |
| 16 | At any one time they are likely to have two hundred and fifty in various stages of recovery . |
| 17 | He says they 're not real gipsies and that last time they came to the district they caused a lot of damage to crops and stole several turkeys . ’ |
| 18 | Some tenants to whom this happens every few months said they 'd been told that next time they 'd have to sort it out themselves . |
| 19 | They also told us that next time they would hold people in custody until the next court sitting . ’ |