Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] 's time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the wake of recent archaeological discoveries , there is now little question that Celtic Christianity , as it evolved between Patrick 's time and the Synod of Whitby in the mid-seventh century , owed little to Rome . |
| 2 | If she were to open the door perhaps the blackness would be out there now , ready to swallow her , as it had almost done on that previous occasion ; or would she wander endlessly in a limbo of greyness , forever trapped between Johnny 's time and her own ? |
| 3 | He kept Bulgaria close to the Soviet Union , particularly during Brezhnev 's time , but has been unable to cope with President Gorbachev 's move towards democracy and openness . |
| 4 | What was so special about Johnny 's time , anyway ? |
| 5 | During Edward 's time , a Fielding gas engine was installed , to augment the water power , the gas supply being laid on to the Millbottom area specifically for the mill . |
| 6 | The word comes straight from the Greek meaning ‘ nature ’ ; and it did not acquire its narrower modern sense until about Helmholtz 's time . |
| 7 | During Spenser 's time Ireland was inhabited by three distinct groups . |
| 8 | The Old English tended to be the most influential group within Ireland during Spenser 's time . |
| 9 | Chapter 2 is an extended discussion of a particular example , " radar " in bats , discovered long after Paley 's time . |
| 10 | In 1844 , after Coleman 's time , the course at the Edinburgh ‘ Dick ’ School was apparently a mere five or six months ' duration . |
| 11 | To the east of Carthage in Libya sharp disputes between the monarchian followers of Sabellius and upholders of the Logos theology occurred half a century after Tertullian 's time . |
| 12 | The penal system he worked in was not the only thing that had changed during Nicholson 's time . |
| 13 | St Valentine , incidentally , was a Roman priest martyred on the Flaminian Way during Claudius 's time . |
| 14 | Some 5% of user 's time , he claims , is spent in such tasks as backing up a network , and such factors end up costing as much as the original system itself . |
| 15 | Erm , St John , towards the end of the novel is described as erm he , when he 's asked Jane and she pleads for quarter of hour 's time to think |
| 16 | A great deal of Alison 's time recently has been spent on the launch of the Income Protection and Critical Protection contracts . |
| 17 | Yet even more of parliament 's time was occupied dispensing justice in response to petitions from the king 's subjects on all manner of grievances . |
| 18 | If we imagine the knight of Richard 's time riding into battle with a padded gambeson ( quilted body-armour ) , chain mail shirt and hose , topped by the huge helm , and swinging a heavy longsword — all in the blistering heat of the desert and against a much lighter-clad adversary — we may wonder that the crusaders managed to win any battles . |
| 19 | So she began to speak , choosing her words with care and refusing steadfastly to talk about Johnny 's war , or of the little she knew of Johnny 's time . |
| 20 | Appalled by her ignorance of Johnny 's time and of Johnny 's war , she had found some books at the library , and bringing them home , had read them with a mixture of fascination and growing horror . |
| 21 | Runner-up David Broome — at 51 proving he is still a major world threat — could only get to within just under three seconds of Bost 's time . |
| 22 | Other INSET initiatives , particularly school-led INSET and management training , were being developed towards the end of the evaluation period but they were beyond the reach of PRINDEP 's time and resources . |
| 23 | Gradually his scientific interests took less of Dresser 's time . |
| 24 | Most of Leapor 's time at Weston Hall and Edgcote House would obviously have been spent working . |
| 25 | Most of Gould 's time on this first brief visit to Yarrundi was spent in pursuit of one particular bird — the Menura or lyre-bird that abounded in the cedar brush on the slopes of the Liverpool Range . |
| 26 | Here , visitors can ride through the magical green-woods of Robin 's time , try their hand at archery and feast under the ‘ Greenwode Tree ’ . |
| 27 | Although the highlights of the visits were to be commissions to write for the stage , the bulk of Mozart 's time was taken up writing and performing instrumental works for private performances . |
| 28 | Throughout the Palestine of Jesus 's time , there spread a yearning for a spiritual leader who would bring the nation back to God again , would effect a reconciliation with the divine . |
| 29 | The Jews of Jesus 's time were waiting in anguished anticipation for the advent of the Messiah — and , so far as many of them were concerned , for the advent of two Messiahs . |
| 30 | If Rome , during the time of Constantine , began to assume the characteristics of the old Herodian Sadducee priesthood , Egyptian Christianity beyond the city centres diverged increasingly towards the kind of framework that had served the Zadokites or Essenes of Jesus 's time . |