Example sentences of "[noun sg] of this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now in this respect , of course , twenty-five years is rather a short time in the life of a university , and a good deal of this time has been spent in building up a research base , and now , as you mentioned in your erm remarks a few moments ago , Andrew , we have an enviable research record in a very wide range of disciplines . |
| 2 | Ministering to their spiritual needs would be a full time job , he said , and he offered to devote the major part of this time to the work for the period of the war . |
| 3 | Less than a month separates the publisher 's acceptance of the book and Nietzsche 's completion of the revision ; and during part of this time he was busy preparing lectures on Plato and , unexpectedly enough , on Latin epigraphy . " |
| 4 | Its issue presupposes that some function of the body remains to be performed , and this sets an internal time limit after which the order could not issue ( although an applicant can be denied the order because of undue delay even before the expiry of this time ) . |
| 5 | Darren had made some slight weight gain — 1.2 kg over the course of this time — and mother was persevering with feeding . |
| 6 | There is no mention of such an event in any other historical literature of this time . |
| 7 | His masterpiece of this time is undoubtedly Dr Richard Mead , 1747 , the portrait with which Ramsay really introduced his version of the Grand Manner to English painting . |
| 8 | Miro called the work of this time ‘ my savage paintings … full of oppositions , conflicts and contrasts ’ . |
| 9 | The team will present a paper to the Conference of the British Sociological Association which is meeting at Kent during the period of this time . |
| 10 | Waited for some kind of sign , a handclasp , a chaste kiss on the cheek , some sign that Lucy knew the meaning of this time and space . |
| 11 | The All Souls Trust had taken a seven-year lease on the church and virtually the whole of this time was used on repairs to the spire and roof . |
| 12 | By another of the technical innovations or borrowings which mark the art of this time , terracotta figurines and heads are no longer generally made freely by hand or turned on the wheel but pressed into moulds . |
| 13 | ( b ) Discover the main changes in the European economy of this time . |
| 14 | A reconstruction of the supposed scenery of this time is given in plate 4.4 ( it will be noted that the view is looking west-wards and that the shadows are therefore coming from the north , evidently proving that the British Isles were then in the southern hemisphere ) . |
| 15 | For me , a highlight of this time was a weekend visit from a college friend , whom I 've only seen once in the forty-three years since we left college . |
| 16 | A similar character is found in some coinage of this time , in South Italy and particularly in Sicily which takes the lead in this art . |
| 17 | Stephen Orgel discerns in the theatre of this time the fear that man 's superior development could be reversed — ‘ that men can turn into — or be turned into — women ; or perhaps more exactly , can be turned back into woman , losing the strength that enabled the male potential to be realized in the first place . ’ |
| 18 | And although you are nearing the end of this time of trial , Saturn is going out in style . |
| 19 | At the end of this time Parliament would make a permanent religious settlement in consultation with a committee of divines who would represent various views . |
| 20 | At the end of this time , worn-down and aged far beyond her years , she meets the woman who lent her the necklace . |
| 21 | The employer may have a problem if the employee has not managed to sell the old property at the end of this time . |
| 22 | At the end of this time , the character will attack his fellow . |
| 23 | Towards the end of this time , the mother looks as though she has a bunch of pink grapes on her underside and clambering about the branches or running over uneven ground not only becomes awkward for her but looks distinctly uncomfortable for her young . |
| 24 | At the end of this time the rotor has moved forward to a position where the motor is producing negative torque . |
| 25 | Troops were deployed and a curfew imposed as the unrest continued into the third day ; at the end of this time 26 people were reported dead and over 500 had been arrested . |
| 26 | Let's move on to the medium-term question and get away from the perhaps the more depressing end of this time spectrum at any rate . |
| 27 | She could still hear the faint murmurs of Tom Russell and his sister talking on the veranda , and it distracted her from the real purpose of this time alone , which was not to go on reliving that moment when his hand had covered her own , but to obediently follow his suggestion of giving herself time to fully think this through . |