Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The job it was created to do — establish Unix SVR4 — was completed and done successfully some time ago . |
| 2 | In a muffled voice she added , ‘ They had so little time together that I hope they were happy . ’ |
| 3 | I said perhaps some time afterwards . |
| 4 | The duels between these two groups were fought with knives which they carried in small scabbards on their belts , and it was only some time later that the rival school 's knockout tactics were discovered . |
| 5 | It was only some time later when he was safely on his way to Theatre that they realised the whole lot had been filmed . |
| 6 | I can tell him that , if we had been involved in the process during the years in which this Government were involved , proper priority would have been given to the very stipulations that we laid down some time ago about convergence , the accountability of institutions and the need for a change in regional and structural funding — as well as several other considerations , some of which are now contained in article 2 of the treaty . |
| 7 | The lies , of course , continued , only this time instead of light hearted ‘ Kylie Is A Creature From Outer Space ’ headlines , the press struck straight at Kylie 's heart . |
| 8 | Abraham continued to send for me — only this time legitimately . |
| 9 | If the joint begins to give trouble late in the day and you have a chance of a placing , then consider reapplying the bandage , only this time slightly tighter . |
| 10 | But before Ruth could settle down to sleep again it returned , only this time much sharper , as if it would split her body in two . |
| 11 | Referring back to that list of priorities led me to address this thorny issue once more , only this time less from the point of view of a recording being merely compared with other recordings ( or some mean recorded standard ) , than the level of execution which the scores themselves would appear to invite . |
| 12 | If you have n't picked up these two handbooks that are on the table outside , can you do so some time today , okay ? |
| 13 | She could not understand why he should want to spend so much time away from home and his family . |
| 14 | Christopher Petrie and Jane lived for a year as neighbours : he in the manor and she in the stables-converted cottage , which she made much cosier and more inviting than the manor — one reason perhaps why Christopher spent so much time there . |
| 15 | Assuming that the Congress , which has wasted so much time so far , does not get round to final approval of any of the versions of the constitution , Mr Yeltsin could either wait until its next scheduled meeting in the autumn , seeking a compromise with parliament . |
| 16 | My initial question was answered and these dedicated crew members who give so much time so freely can only be described as the salt of the earth . |
| 17 | ‘ We spent so much time together . |
| 18 | Not that she cared that they were going to be spending so much time together , she reminded herself hastily . |
| 19 | They had spent so much time together , but hardly knew each other . |
| 20 | ‘ I saw no point in trying to keep them apart , but I did n't expect them to spend so much time together . |
| 21 | Er so we are concerned that that money perhaps future time so that we can continue to spend whatever money we are doing at the present time er to our roads . |
| 22 | People who have intelligence and a conscience wrestle with these problems and we 've come to a conclusion which is as good a deal as we think we can get , with the people of the area and with the Labour party and I think he said that if people in this authority are sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time then people will change their minds . |
| 23 | Even if that figure were now to be drastically reduced orthodox interpretations of the fossil evidence together with orthodox evolutionary theory would require that the last generalized man/ape , the " missing link " of the early Darwinian imagination , must have died out an exceedingly long time ago . |
| 24 | The Silmarillion might then have come to look like ( for example ) The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise , written late but preserving intensely moving fragments of verse from some much older time now lost ; even the editorial matter would then reinforce the effect of age and darkness ( a device Tolkien used on a much smaller scale for The Adventures of Tom Bombadil ) . |
| 25 | Well no I do n't work on the nights anyway , you know we 're full time so full time just do n't work nights |
| 26 | Yeah , it 's well they do say both sides that it 's the most dangerous time straight after a goal . |
| 27 | Or if you had a person that was just half time maybe doing it . |
| 28 | Eventually I stopped asking , because I could n't bear the sad little shake of his head that meant Not this time either . |
| 29 | No not this time though |
| 30 | ‘ No , really — think about the last time you went a day without wearing make-up and I bet it would be a frighteningly long time ago . ’ |