Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore it was supposed that payments practices , and other institutional arrangements which change only slowly over time , have more influence on the velocity of circulation than any temporary changes in M. Before the First World War there may have been a good deal of truth in this assumption because the financial system was relatively unsophisticated and financial innovation was taking place very slowly by today 's standards . |
| 2 | Since real output could also change only slowly over time in response to changes in aggregate demand , it followed that the rate of monetary growth would in the long run be correlated with the rate of inflation . |
| 3 | Thus , we have : For two main reasons , economists are usually quite happy to work with ‘ gross ’ rather than ‘ net ’ figures : first , depreciation tends to change only slowly over time so that the ‘ gross ’ and ‘ net ’ figures move closely together over any period of a few years ; and secondly , depreciation figures are notoriously difficult to estimate with any accuracy . |
| 4 | Oh look — that 's all right for time . ’ |
| 5 | Why does the measured unemployment rate vary so greatly over time ? |
| 6 | Peter McEnery and Dorothy Tutin ( above ) play the middle-aged ex-lovers who iron out the wrinkles and get together just in time for the final curtain . |
| 7 | " You got in just in time . |
| 8 | Hello sha n't be long just in time for a cuppa . |
| 9 | He looked down just in time to see Liawski 's diaries disappearing over the edge . |
| 10 | It would not be surprising if you found that the work started arriving either only just on time or even late . |
| 11 | At length the little lad grabs her sleeve and becomes insistent , and she is only just in time with the sick bag . |
| 12 | And only just in time . |
| 13 | Glasnost had come only just in time to prevent all the interesting , intelligent spirits from vanishing . |
| 14 | She had taken pains to arrive only just in time . |
| 15 | This was just as well , for I saw only just in time a hen crossing my path in the most leisurely manner . |
| 16 | She was only just in time to escape being knocked down . |
| 17 | Angela reached the roped-in starting-square only just in time . |
| 18 | He was only just in time , though , as a woodcutter had been called to cut it down . |
| 19 | They were only just in time . |
| 20 | She remembered that he had a knack for getting people to stop shooting , and usually only just in time . |
| 21 | Each special effect is just barely holding on to credibility , waiting for that cut which often comes only just in time ( and sometimes a fraction late ) . |
| 22 | The two men who came in were old friends of hers , rich American connoisseurs who had made their home in Paris before the war and left only just in time . |
| 23 | It looked as if they were about to push back their chairs and join her at her table , and only just in time , Cassie remembered that she needed no further complications in an already bewildering and uncontrollable life . |
| 24 | I was the last to arrive , and I was only just in time for dinner . |
| 25 | First Richard Blake had taken advantage of her innocence , seducing her into a youthful infatuation from which she had managed to free herself only just in time . |
| 26 | He had wakened at eleven thirty , only just in time for his lunchtime gig . |
| 27 | Melody released him reluctantly — and only just in time . |
| 28 | She arrived with twenty minutes to spare before her train was due to leave but , after she had queued for a ticket , was only just in time to catch it . |
| 29 | They were only just in time , for a minute or two later a procession appeared at the top of the hill and began to make its way slowly down . |
| 30 | The picture which emerges from research , from that of Dorothy Wedderburn in the 1960s to that of Sara Arber and her colleagues in the 1980s , on the relationship between pensioners and younger relatives , friends and neighbours , is not one of simple dependency of the old upon the young , but of an exchange relationship to which both sides contribute which shifts only gradually over time towards the younger participants being the predominant givers ( Cole and Utting , 1962 ; Gilbert et al. , 1989 ; Evandrou et al. , 1986 ) providing a significant volume of services which would otherwise be a costly burden on the state . |