Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like facsimile messages ( fax ) , it has the advantage of being less expensive than the telephone , as an entire message can be composed before transmission , with only the time of transmission attracting an external cost . |
| 2 | Mr Lawler never mentioned again that he 'd refuse to go , aware now that was a stance he 'd have to back down from when the time came . |
| 3 | For surely a time will come when what I have said will happen will happen , and then one among us eagles will fly freely on the wind . |
| 4 | Progress during implementation should be monitored on both a time and a cost basis against a critical path-based plan , and regular reports should be fed back to more senior management . |
| 5 | There had been no other woman in his life for quite a time . |
| 6 | Like Krakatoa , Mt Pelee had been active for quite a time before disaster struck . |
| 7 | That was all he could say for quite a time ; but when he had recovered his confidence he said a lot more , all of it expressing gratitude to Sheila for her quick thinking and great pluck and shame for his own and Chuck 's roughness with her earlier . |
| 8 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 9 | And he wo n't be sleeping again for quite a time . " |
| 10 | So I stood by the vice for quite a time and then I went to pick something up , turned round , told you , you do that you 'll do nothing else . |
| 11 | This courtesy , tenderly performed , seemed right out of place to me , but it went down okay with Mrs Davis , who peered up at Fielding for quite a time before she said , |
| 12 | UTOPIA : It 's been around for quite a time . |
| 13 | Current evidence suggests that at the moment there is little ‘ choice ’ about when the time is ‘ right ’ to enter care . |
| 14 | It was at exactly the time when Odd-Knut feared Brusie was dying , as she became unconscious . |
| 15 | He had been taken to the fourth floor at exactly the time of his appointment . |
| 16 | Moreover , the ‘ transition to democracy ’ has occurred at exactly the time when the international economic crisis was making its presence felt with greatest intensity . |
| 17 | Could it be that there was then more racism in the art world , and that Black artists were being squeezed out at just the time when young working-class artists from the British provinces were finding unprecedented and immediate public fortune ? |
| 18 | American and British firms built fat integrated bureaucracies at just the time when Japanese firms were arriving in international competition with their lean , mean communities of interest . |
| 19 | He stresses the complexity of interrelations and points to an increase in the importance of territorial politics ( i.e. based on a local government area ) at just the time when — in the face of severe economic problems — local ( welfare ) expenditure has become an increasingly important element in central ( economic ) planning . |
| 20 | Indeed , the increased concentration of central government on local government spending helped to increase its political profile , locally as well as nationally , at just the time when reorganization had created authorities with major staffing and financial resources , authorities more powerful than the patchwork quilt of councils which they replaced . |
| 21 | In our society , children often reach adolescence at just the time that their mothers are going through the menopause . |
| 22 | ‘ If Armitage did it in conjunction with Latimer , that explains the window , the lurking on the gallery , and the presence of Latimer acting suspiciously in the area at just the time the murder was committed . |
| 23 | At just the time when the Civil War was weakening this commercial connection , the Dutch were trying to conquer the portuguese colony of Brazil . |
| 24 | It was not recorded before the year 1610 , and there have been suggestions that it brightened up abruptly at that time , though personally I am sceptical ; it would be a strange coincidence if the Nebula burst into prominence at just the time when mankind invented the telescope ! |
| 25 | Immigrants from the New Commonwealth arrived at just the time that Britain lost an empire and with it her position in the world . |
| 26 | As was so often the case with railway stations , these facilities were reaching their highest point at just the time when immigration — like the passenger statistics themselves — was about to take a steep downturn . |
| 27 | The police were looking for a Pat and Jim , said Nicky , and here was Pat admitting that he and his friend Jim were in the general area of the crime at roughly the time it was committed . |
| 28 | It is no coincidence that mass schooling was invented at roughly the time when nation states had come into existence and the need arose to instil in their citizens the idea that the new entity had first claim on their loyalties . |
| 29 | And Mary was to arrive at precisely the time when the reformers were beginning to add a new dimension to Scottish self-perception . |
| 30 | At precisely the time that the Party leadership was extolling the horse as a modern and fuel-saving means of transport , it was also planning to increase the journey-times of the rural population and make them more dependent on motor transport — or perhaps to shorten the time they had left to themselves , to sleep , think and so on . |