Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The planning department found that business units considered the time horizon of the issues to be too long to be of relevance and these issues were therefore considered to be ‘ back of the mind ’ flagging signals and were therefore not acted on . |
| 2 | These were the gig mills , which raised the nap on the cloth prior to shearing and vastly shortened the time needed compared with the old hand method , and shearing frames , which by mechanically aligning the heavy forty-pound shears reduced the time taken to a quarter . |
| 3 | Television cameras were covering the bill and a number of those opposite the prying lenses spent the time waving at the cameras . |
| 4 | ‘ When our family shareholders decided the time had come to sell the company , they offered to sell it to the management team if we could match the price a trade bidder could pay . |
| 5 | Any of youse cats got the time ? ’ |
| 6 | Vasili checked the time . |
| 7 | Short did not appear to obtain much advantage out of the opening and according to Karpov 's friend , Dmitri Bjelica , Karpov could have secured a draw by exchanging queens as the players approached the time control at move 40 . |
| 8 | But many Americans thought the time had come for a political change to the safer conservatism of the Republican Party . |
| 9 | What made it worse , was that the police had the time of the tram-cars and the time it took to get to a certain stop . |