Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone might , anyone could , anyone would be welcome for a time or half a time . |
| 2 | In the vision of the Four Beasts in chapter 7 , Antiochus " changes the seasons and the law " and his rule will last " a time and times and half a time " ( 7.25 ) : perhaps three years and a half . |
| 3 | As the Temple was desecrated , according to the most probable chronology , about December 1 67 and reconsecrated about December 164 , we must take it that the correct interpretation of Daniel is the latter , amounting to about three years , which is in rough agreement with the " time , times and half a time " of the previous chapter . |
| 4 | Finally , the time of persecution is stated again to be " a time , times and half a time " ( 12.7 ) , that is three years and a half , in the vision of the two angels which concludes the book . |
| 5 | I came out of the station , having had my break and was putting it into my notebook — ‘ refreshments at such-and-such a time , leave such- and such a time ’ . |
| 6 | You 'd get a message from the R T O the er Railway Transport Office to say supply three hundred and sixty cups of tea at such and such a time and then of course the troops would the train would start , the troops pour out and pour into our place and there we were dashing around . |
| 7 | Something tied up , something in there as a heading so every member of staff knows that at such and such a time they are working on a heading of environmental awareness I would like us to have a precis of what that 's gon na involve but , I sha n't worry if we have n't got that we 've moved on a step |
| 8 | Well I was thrown in at the deep end Different persons came in maybe if we had a job in a hurry and they would say , Oh you 're on at such and such a time at this . |
| 9 | which is the excuse , I 'd rather somebody went along sort of said right I 'll have it done such and such a time rather than keep buggering about |
| 10 | If nothing happens by such and such a time , then we shall have to do something else . |
| 11 | Many and many a time have we looked , have I alone in more recent years looked , for certain things thus revealed to us in passing . |
| 12 | Bransby Cooper says that ‘ I have sometimes suffered from the Professor 's love of cold air ; for if ever he could manage at his parties to have a window left open unperceived , he was delighted ; and many a time when I have dined with him I have said ‘ Pray , Mr Coleman , have your ventilators shut or I shall be blown out of the room ’ , at which he laughed and had the direction of the current changed by stealth so as to apply the breeze upon some other visitor less sensitive than myself' . |
| 13 | Many of the people on my courses on dying , for example , had never really come to terms with the inevitability of death in their own lives , and many a time we had to stop to allow distressed and upset people to leave the room . |
| 14 | I 've gone to bed many and many a time — and I was only sixteen — I 've gone to bed many a time and laid on the bed and fell off to sleep before I was undressed because we were on the go the whole time . |
| 15 | And many , and many a time tutor sister would rap on the desk and say , come on , wake up , we 've nearly finished . |
| 16 | That 's right and put your paddle in that and you scull you had to come down every time and many a time people 'd learn that that paddle will come out , but once you got the knack of it you could do it one hand , cos you was cutting down all the time like that 's what it was . |
| 17 | When that gone down they used to splash cos that used to come underneath the buckets and our cabin hatchway was facing that and many a time that 'd come right down the cabin , the mud . |
| 18 | And I had to get a box and many a time I 've fallen on my back from that so Cos somebody had moved the boxes I think . |
| 19 | My mother was the one that used to struggle and many a time she 's gone without herself you know . |
| 20 | They could put the hook in there and they could lower doors away so there 's no need for the , cos many a time in the dumb hopper when you knock that pin out , they go down with the force and it 'd break and it 'd break the er the chain , the chain link . |
| 21 | Yeah , yeah I wished we did like them cos many a time you can make a meal |
| 22 | Yeah , but seven a time |
| 23 | During Christmas 1989 — as important a time of year for reggae sales as the pop market — he held four of the top six places in the UK reggae singles chart . |