Example sentences of "[noun sg] and a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annabelle , for you this is a first marriage and a time of excitement and hope . |
| 2 | Steven , for you this is a first marriage and a time of expectation and hope . |
| 3 | For others , Christmas is a welcome relief from the pressure of work and a time to recuperate . |
| 4 | Structural awareness , ie having clear objectives , a plan and a time schedule . |
| 5 | You get up to 5 radiators , a wall mounted heat generator , a comfort controller and a time clock ; everything you need for the smaller home , at a very competitive price . |
| 6 | I suppose that any idea that catches a mood and a time will have many fathers . |
| 7 | Even when she has selected a place and a time , the female cuckoo has still got the problem of introducing her egg into the host 's nest in such a way that it wo n't be rejected . |
| 8 | Most people have heard of the world-famous Oktoberfest , ostensibly a folk festival and a time when Munich really lets go and gulps thousands of gallons of beer and schnapps , all in the name of tradition . |
| 9 | End with a summing up by the Chair and a time of prayer . |
| 10 | The situation in this respect is better for those at the younger end of the group than at the other , but a man or woman who was 40 in 1978 was only 10 in 1948 ; an impressionable age and a time before there was much relaxation in sexual codes . |
| 11 | At all events , the great age of Athens , on this reading , was the age of the Persian wars in the early years of the fifth century , a time of supreme political endeavour and a time when the grandest of all tragic dramatists , Aeschylus , was there to provide the spiritual leadership of the city . |
| 12 | The sixties , however , certainly marked the end of the era of post-war austerity and a time when the belief that the State could solve most economic problems was strong . |
| 13 | Well , there 's a time to call a bluff and a time to fold — fold up , roll over and beg for mercy , that is . |
| 14 | Such an undertaking can appear to be a matter of stating the obvious — that speaker J , in his first contribution , for example , is answering the ‘ what ’ question in terms of an understood-to-be-known location and a time which is known from an interaction between knowledge of J's age ( context ) and knowledge that J was at least fourteen ( domain ) . |