Example sentences of "[adj] of [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American ambassador sent his CIA station chief to ask Walters what he was really doing in Morocco at this of all time Walters insisted that his visit had nothing to do with the Shah . |
| 2 | The submissions were brief and lucid , economical of Ministerial time , but unaccompanied by any files or background papers from which alternatives could be devised or warning signals detected . |
| 3 | Today half of that time has elapsed . |
| 4 | I may even be abroad for some of that time . ’ |
| 5 | in psychology and chucked in electrical engineering and started a psychology course and he had to work at the same time as he studied for some of that time |
| 6 | But you need some of this time when there 's nothing to do , and , you do n't know what might happen . |
| 7 | Both parents were present and absent for some of this time . |
| 8 | ‘ This is Muhammad Ali , the greatest of all times . |
| 9 | Whether they read a highbrow paper at each of four time points : the mid-term , the pre-campaign week , the first and second fortnights of the campaign . |
| 10 | [ T ] he remarkable thing about the British press , as it entered the twentieth century , was its resemblance … to the press of mid-Victorian times , in some respects to that of pre-Victorian times . |
| 11 | With 2min 47sec remaining of regular time and the Monarchs leading 17–14 , he threw an interception which set up Birmingham 's equalising field goal and sent the game into overtime . |
| 12 | It is highly evocative of that time in everyone 's life when a mortgage meant nothing , music was all and your friends could be as mental as barking hens . |
| 13 | It was clear however , that neither nominal responsibility nor title was indicative of actual time spent on in-service training . |
| 14 | But we must not forget the great flysch troughs which were developed in Alpine Europe through much of Cretaceous time and which in many cases continued on into the Tertiary . |
| 15 | For much of that time , local government acted as an arena through which wider political debates about the state were conducted . |
| 16 | Patrick had fallen off a ladder over a year and a half ago and had been off work for much of that time . |
| 17 | Malcolm has served the church very faithfully during his term in office in spite of being under severe pressure of work during much of that time . |
| 18 | People have been studying the behavioural functions of the brain for something less than two centuries and , for much of that time , their efforts have been hampered by a combination of inevitable ignorance and adherence to implausible psychological theories . |
| 19 | Much of that time is taken up negotiating with creditors . |
| 20 | The Financial Statement 's key aim is to save much of that time by use of an agreed system in which creditors have trust and confidence . |
| 21 | During much of that time she had been moving constantly , school friends , teachers and happy times discarded until she felt like a fugitive . |
| 22 | The absence of new gilt issues for a period from 1988 to 1991 and the steeply inverted yield curve for much of that time meant that the eurosterling bond market developed strongly . |
| 23 | He had been in and out of the England team for ten years and had played 55 Tests , probably the best off-spinner in the world for much of this time . |
| 24 | For much of this time the country was in a continual state of war , with the Moors in the south and the Christians in the north constantly invading each others ' borders . |
| 25 | For much of this time Holroyd Smith was synonymous with Blackpool , the location of his achievement by installing one of the world 's first sustainable application of electricity to street transport . |
| 26 | There was no real communication between me and my father , who was also on holiday from school for much of this time . |
| 27 | Furthermore , income tax was relatively low ; it did not rise above 4s 6d to 5s in the pound during much of this time , and middle-class incomes of £250 p.a. to £1,000 p.a. enjoyed the lowest percentage burden of both direct and indirect taxation combined . |
| 28 | Much of this time could be wasted while children awaited the teacher 's attention or were simply distracted . |
| 29 | Although Marseilles is known to have been shared between two kings for much of this time , details of the division are hard to establish . |
| 30 | These should be run-of-the-mill problems to the experienced recruitment specialist , but they could cause you a deal of anxiety and frustration , as well as cost you a lost of wasted time and effort . |