Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking about food between meals , after meals or all the time predisposes snacking behaviour and overeating . |
| 2 | However , he does not have this negative interpretation of all events or all the time — otherwise he would be permanently depressed . |
| 3 | It 's not something I particularly thought an awful lot of until I came on crime prevention , because before that I was in police uniform with marked cars with the radio , although half the time in Harlow , the radios do n't work cos we 're getting . |
| 4 | In the Calder Valley district , the Yorkshire Water Authority 's data showed the EC limits were met less than half the time in 1988 . |
| 5 | Essential field trips could be charged for if more than half the time spent on the visit was outside school hours , and ‘ optional extras ’ such as individual music lessons might also incur a charge . |
| 6 | Its cost is estimated at £6-£12 , compared to compact fluorescent bulbs , which cost around £13-£16 , but last less than half the time . |
| 7 | Why keep wasting 13 years when Labour can prove the same point in less than half the time . |
| 8 | But then by the time they were fin he retired and they were finishing they were ta they were taking about less than half the time . |
| 9 | The Blake case is still extremely sensitive because Blake was authorised to do some very terrible things in the East-West espionage war without MI6 being aware that all the time he was one of Russia 's most important agents . |
| 10 | The ironical thing was that all the time , in a stack in Hilbert 's desk , secured by a rubber band , were fifty or so old postcards collected by Hilbert and Lilian presumably on early travels and among them were two of Greece , one of Mount Lycabettos and the other the very view Rufus had spoken of so scathingly . |
| 11 | Or maybe blue … they say it may clear up later , but people say that all the time in Scotland . |
| 12 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 13 | I was driving along t you know t telling David that all the time that that people are on the roads practising how to drive and becoming better drivers there are people like that wally there crossing the roa Oh , it 's Simon . |
| 14 | Expelled by a cunning King , they flew again towards the west on the next leg of their ride through a world that all the time was changing and shifting against them . |
| 15 | Notice , however , that all the time this expansion is taking place , the composition of the aggregate balance sheet must be changing . |
| 16 | It was delicious to be close to Alain , to belong to him , to know that all the time she had been alone he had been thinking about her . |
| 17 | ‘ The trouble is that I know that all the time he 's only trying to ingratiate himself in order to get me to agree to a merger . |
| 18 | More than just that shop where you go in you can go all round and wander round and you do n't see anybody only filling the shelves up and half the time they do n't even , ca n't even advise you where to go can they you know . |
| 19 | And half the time |
| 20 | He 'd tell me things there , and I 'd get so excited about whatever he said was going to happen , and half the time he 'd just made it up . ’ |
| 21 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 22 | He probably will have six later on , if he gets it off , but the thing is , I mean , he 'll need somebody to drive wagons round yard , and half the time , y you know , he 'll be sat doing nothing , scratching his nose . |
| 23 | I mean , it 's not as nice a pint as now that Whitbread 's have taken over and half the time . |
| 24 | he 'd go upstairs and Shirley would have put all the clean clothes back in the wardrobe and he 'd go in the wardrobe oh , no I wo n't wear that , no I wo n't wear that and half the time she found the cleanest clothes were all rolled up under the bed . |
| 25 | He 's going to give a price and somebody else is going to give a price in competition , and half the time if he 's lucky he 'll get the jobs . |
| 26 | Parts were always going wrong , and half the time computers were out of action as technicians laboriously tried to find and remedy faults . |
| 27 | I mean er , I did n't like er that Friday night it were hor horrible shift , cos half the time you used to turn up , only half a team would turn up and you 'd be expected to do |
| 28 | I 'd better have about three cos half the time they have n't bloody got them up there |
| 29 | But I would like to say to you that in my view , and in the view of the organisation I represent , Phoenix Trust , by and large the time is long past for analysis . |
| 30 | Social life based on this condition can hardly be favourable to older people , and the more turbulent and anarchical the times , the worse their condition and status has been . |