Example sentences of "[prep] [art] time it " in BNC.
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1 | If anyone spoke , it was usually only to voice condemnation of British Rail for the time it took to get served . |
2 | The snow is much worse as I finally move out , and the only consolation for the time it has taken is being alone , and arriving late so that the others have already begun on the tent and wood collecting . |
3 | It would , she saw , be perfectly possible for her and Pilade to go to England the following year if someone could be found to run her boarding house for the time it would take . |
4 | And the model incorporates an adjustable time lag in the volcanic and solar influences to allow for the time it takes the temperature of the atmosphere and oceans to respond to outside influences . |
5 | So that 's it — we deduct five overs and three runs for the rain interruption , plus another eight overs and four runs to make up for the time it 's taken us to work it out . |
6 | ‘ For pity 's sake just sit there and try not to do anything silly for the time it takes me to fill two bowls with cawl . ’ |
7 | We never noticed it during the time it took for me to qualify and start work as an intern at St Andrew 's in Marylebone . |
8 | But direct observation does give you the colours and you do become more accurate , even though sunlight and shadows move so fast during the time it takes to paint such a scene that the particular arrangement that caught your eye in the first place has long since gone by the time the picture is finished ! |
9 | They would spend the whole of the next four months with us during the time it took to turn us into legionnaires . |
10 | And although safe conduct was officially guaranteed to either faction during the time it would take to reach the site , parley and then ride home , many truces failed to hold . |
11 | During the time it took to drink three glasses of unspeakable piss masquerading as wine , I had close to twenty offers : straight sex , not so straight sex , definitely warped sex , threesomes , foursomes , orgies , photos , videos . ’ |
12 | The rate at which it does this is measured as a " time constant " — defined as the time it takes for the output to return 63 per cent of the way to baseline , after a shift in input voltage level . |
13 | It is a more complex tension between the time it takes for any educational system to assimilate innovation , and the pressing need of computer manufacturers and software publishers to market new products . |
14 | Then there was a heavy pause , like the moment a ball must feel between the time it 's thrown up and the time it starts to come down , and something picked up all three of them and slid them into a struggling heap . |
15 | The greatest areas of concern for tax-payers were about the Revenue 's staff 's apparent lack of authority to deal with certain problems , difficulty in getting through to the right person on the telephone , and about the time it took to resolve problems and answer queries . |
16 | Editor , — New patients registering with our general practice often complain about the time it takes us to get their NHS notes from the family health services authority . |
17 | But local people remained sceptical about the time it can take crews to reach emergencies . |
18 | He added that he was concerned about the time it took for the incident to be reported to the Inspectorate of Pollution and the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate . |
19 | Complain about the time it takes for the Beano to reach me . |
20 | It is so time-consuming that you need to look at the end result with a very critical eye and decide whether it was worth the time it took to produce . |
21 | After a time it became known in other faculties that this was rather a special lecturer and people reading classics or history or the sciences took the trouble to go over to Ramsey 's lectures and swell his class . |
22 | After a time it got me down , this continued evasion of me , it was like a form of torture . |
23 | Hari knocked on the door and after a time it was opened by an elderly lady who stared down at her with a frown . |
24 | After a time it stopped . |
25 | When we talked it was like two people playing with a ball : sometimes it went into the goal , sometimes it grazed the post , but most of the time it went high in the air and missed completely . |
26 | Most of the time it failed to make it out of the pit lane . |
27 | A lot of the time it is difficult to know what horses have in mind , and they must find us equally frustrating to understand . |
28 | The result is a flatter seven-layer management structure , the closure of seven factories , a tightening of the time it takes to bring products to market , and a concentration of effort on selling to industry sectors in which the company has established expertise . |
29 | Part of the time it just hung there in the water , not even the tip of a fin moving . |
30 | Even so , given the equipment of the time it was good going . |