Example sentences of "[adj] [art] time it " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can no longer say , ‘ OK , but there will be a smart worker who will learn how to do that in half the time it takes now ’ . |
| 2 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 3 | That 's only half the time it took me last time . |
| 4 | We surfed that channel in half the time it normally takes and then towards the end of our Connemara trip , even after a couple of longer crossings where she admitted she was cursing the disappearing stern of my glassfibres boat , she wanted to buy the Seayak . |
| 5 | Half the time it was n't Clemence she was getting at — it was me . |
| 6 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 7 | And also , but half the time it 's the problem arises because it 's , the machines gone to personnel without something , and then we 've got to spend time either chasing it up or getting another bit or going round in circles . |
| 8 | The particle being exchanged in a sense ‘ borrows its mass from the force field ; the heavier the mass , the shorter the time it can be borrowed , and , therefore , the shorter the range of the force . |
| 9 | Try to avoid telling your child to be careful every time it goes to play with a friend . |
| 10 | Mr Major therefore made a stab at the second — though it might seem that after 11 years in office , Mrs Thatcher 's radical government should have had all the time it needed for tax reform . |
| 11 | ‘ And I thought it was those rats or my silly old brain and all the time it was you , young man . ’ |
| 12 | I count all the time it 's happening . ’ |
| 13 | The Civil Protection Authority , together with the Italian army , navy and even Nato , needs all the time it can get . |
| 14 | They think if they swear at people all the time it makes them a pop star . |
| 15 | There they were imagining satyrs and succubae and God knows what manner of obscene delights , and all the time it was just a baby ! |
| 16 | The range is from 5.7 to 8.6 , so that for almost all the time it is easy to see with binoculars . |
| 17 | ‘ When you are handling food all the time it puts you off . ’ |
| 18 | Democracy has arrived at a gallop in England and I fear all the time it is a race for life . |
| 19 | So within , your very new born sleeping all the time it , its body temperature can begin to drop without you knowing . |
| 20 | So all these numbers come into your life all the time it 's not just for maths you need |
| 21 | First it was kings and archbishops with some offstage divine tinkering , then it was the march of ideas and the movements of masses , then little local events which mean something bigger , but all the time it 's connections , progress , meaning , this led to this , this happened because of this . |
| 22 | And we cling to history as a series of salon pictures , conversation pieces whose participants we can easily reimagine back into life , when all the time it 's more like a multi-media collage , with paint applied by decorator 's roller rather than camel-hair brush . |
| 23 | Yet all the time it must have been different . |
| 24 | And all the time it was a load of rubbish . |
| 25 | And the cops standing there asking me if I knew anything and all the time it 's his gear they 're looking at . |
| 26 | She did n't look at him , not once , not in all the time it took to complete her task . |
| 27 | It is typical of this Tory government , a government that has not had a constructive idea all the time it has been in office , but thinks that union bashing is the only answer to the country 's problems , that thinks it is the only way to unite the Tory troops . |
| 28 | It would seem that erm i it was n't in the interests of one 's ultimate reproductive success to be too easily satisfied too much of the time because remember , it 's a question of relative reproductive success an and the individual that gets that little extra is is effectively gon na be , gon na be the one selected , so yes I would think that erm it 's probably naive to think that natural selection would , would make you feel er satisfied and content all the time it would probably induce erm a state of mild chronic discontent which is I think what most people actually experience in life |
| 29 | But all the time it is Chaucer 's composition . |
| 30 | Scale 1 concentrates more on the image of sickness , its diagnosis and treatment , but all the time it is informed by a vibrant sense of the health aspired to ; whereas Scale 2 is concerned with the nature of the experience by which the image of sin is transfigured to a likeness of the being of God . |