Example sentences of "[adj] in [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er indeed the directive was promulgated as the minister said but I do n't think it was a bolt out of the blue , it was of course something that we around for some considerable time before that and of course that excuse hardly applies to the delay in establishing the European parliamentary constituency committees , er as the minister er will know very well , it was merely a matter of seven weeks , er the excuse being that had they had another seven weeks they could have had the public inquiry stage , the reality of course was that there was plenty of time to do this in good time and in good order and without the confusion that exists now er around the candidatures and the boundaries of the existing European boundaries . |
| 2 | It did n't stop them getting into very severe financial difficulties , and you may have read about this in recent times , it , there 's a proposal that the Science and Engineering Research Council may be so short of funds it may close the laboratory down . |
| 3 | The business of the audition is squeezed into all this in less time than it takes to shake a leg . |
| 4 | Industry would draw on this in hard times . |
| 5 | ( He has come closest to an antipathetic character as the ex-con in Straight Time , and as a crook in Family Business , two of his biggest commercial failures . ) |
| 6 | At present the system allows a large vocabulary of English words which can be represented in memory with practical size and processing requirements , and is searchable in real time . |
| 7 | Blackburn managed to equalise in the last five minutes and won it 3–4 in extra time . |
| 8 | Initially , in er 19 er 77 there would be a great number , but it was only 12 in recent times . |
| 9 | We are interested in all time and money-saving designs from farmers , workers and contractors and will award a first prize of £1,000 , two second prizes of £500 and all three third prizes of £250 for the best of the crop . |
| 10 | Tiny baskets of cherries are tucked away in the display , an idea popular in Victorian times . |
| 11 | A mutation that became popular in Victorian times was called the ‘ Moss Rose ’ because of a minute thorny , moss-like growth that forms on and around the bud scales , in some cases very heavily , and which is coloured . |
| 12 | It is unrealistic in these times to work on the assumption that profit sharing ratios , once fixed , are sacrosanct only ever to be changed when the number of partners changes . |
| 13 | The derivation of a no-arbitrage condition relies on the use of the capital market to move the cash flows arising from the arbitrage transaction through time so that they are non-zero in all time periods , and positive at least once . |
| 14 | The nightmares and perception of strange smells that we shall see in our more modern writers were as prevalent in mediaeval times : ‘ He dremyth dredful dremes of derknesse and ferdfull to se , and of stynkynge sauoure and smelle . ’ |
| 15 | At X itself there are heteroclinic orbits ( orbits which tend towards one stationary point in forward time and to another in backward time ) linking all three stationary points . |
| 16 | The world of athletics had changed so much in that time , and has changed since 1980 . |
| 17 | Because this programme tried to do so much in limited time , it seemed to some observers to be somewhat thin or superficial . |
| 18 | This movement , which though tiny in real time is immense in the aeons of geological time , is wholly responsible for the other dramatic features of the Pacific . |
| 19 | Maps in great quantity and superb detail become available from the sixteenth century onwards , and detailed estate records of the seventeenth , eighteenth and nineteenth centuries aid discussion of changing estate structure and policies which is impossible in earlier times . |
| 20 | But the accident opened the door to another hero — substitute Stephen Ross ( Glasgow Govan ) who put the game beyond Dundee 's reach by scoring goal number three in extra time . |
| 21 | His solution would have been unthinkable in classical times . |
| 22 | According to my arithmetic that adds up to 35 guillotine motions , which is unprecedented in modern times — indeed , ever , so far as I can judge . |
| 23 | There are many similar species , widespread in Tertiary times . |
| 24 | But there was speculation that the sixteen-foot olos of their Hawaiian predecessors had been capable of scaling the monstrous waves , fifty feet and more , that boil and boom off Kaena Point and remain untested in modern times . |
| 25 | I suppose all this would have been welcome in happier times . |
| 26 | If to carry the comparison further one consults the ranking order of precious stones current in mid-Victorian times set out in Kluge 's handbook of 1860 , one still finds some degree of continuity but notable changes in ranking order . |
| 27 | Although hypothermia can happen accidentally , it is essentially an insidious condition that can happen over several hours , the victim becoming sleepier and sleepier in this time and not realising that he or she is freezing to death . |
| 28 | But , in policing the world , the big powers , above all America , ought to want someone who will stand firm in tough times : a partner , not a patsy . |
| 29 | All in good time . |
| 30 | ‘ Patience , Emily , all in good time , what about inviting me in and offering me a drink , the grass here is quite damp you know , and in those silly slippers , you 'll catch your death . ’ |