Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Debt interest can be seen to take a sizeable portion of general government expenditure ( 7.1% ) especially during times of high interest rates . |
| 2 | But today the Church of England apoligised to the family saying ’ our concern must always be for people before regulations , especially during times of greiving . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 4 | Lighting seemed to be at one basic level regardless of time of day or night though was subtly achieved in the final scene . |
| 5 | Sexual need — sexual urge , libido , call it what you will — varies from person to person and , in the individual , varies somewhat from time to time . |
| 6 | The details of its internal structure varied somewhat from time to time , but the main lines remained fairly stable . |
| 7 | While some staff felt that this system was successful , others believed it to be unfair , especially in times of contracting resources . |
| 8 | Yet , having done this , it should pay particular attention to the emotions rather than to the ‘ facts ’ , or the rationalizations and justifications we all tend to use in order to shroud our feelings , especially in times of stress . |
| 9 | She was successful , but it was not always enough to be in difficulties to get the union committee 's approval , especially in times of unemployment . |
| 10 | When a community language teacher makes her or himself available to parents , especially in times of crisis , greater support and recognition can be gained , and the traditional mistrust of secondary schools on the part of parents , particularly working class parents can be eroded . |
| 11 | Especially in times of political crisis , the need to delegitimate the form of protest and thus the cause itself may lead the media to slant its coverage towards a version which justifies its own ideological view . |
| 12 | It is all too easy for senior executives , especially in times of great pressure on business , to say that they have no time to devote to such activities for the community . |
| 13 | Now I 've used it elsewhere in the garden and I 've never really had any problem with it except it is inclined to make the water very alkaline because the chippings that are quite often used on a flat roof and they 've got a very high P H and therefore you 've got to be aware that the water that comes off is not likely to be soft it 's more likely to be fair fairly hard but for reasonably tough plants I do n't think I would waste it , especially in times of water shortage . |
| 14 | Scapegoating tends to be a reciprocal matter and , especially in time of resource scarcity , anger and blame for the failure of ‘ the system ’ needs to find a target . |
| 15 | This means checking personally from time to time the output from your area , whether it be a shoelace , a bottle of beer , a written report , half an hour 's advice or a telephone call to a client . |
| 16 | Two-thirds of the BBC 's audience did so from time to time and a quarter of these were regular listeners . |
| 17 | Those appointed to the senior status of High Court judge will have acted as Recorders and will often have sat as Deputy High Court judges , having been invited to do so from time to time . |
| 18 | Indeed it is vital that they should do so from time to time . |
| 19 | Now to do that effectively I think it 's essential that I get you to participate in what 's happening so from time to time I 'm going to ask you to answer questions , sometimes by writing them down , sometimes by shows of hands erm sometimes by er reacting back erm to the questions that I ask . |
| 20 | Erm , so in this , so in times of the Woodrow Wilson or perhaps Freud er , took the subject too , too far . |
| 21 | Timber for construction needs to be acquired only from time to time , and enough firewood can be collected in one journey to last several months . |
| 22 | Crilly took me to the old town once ; it was a sooty place just north of the city , bordered by cakey cliffs and a greasy sliver of sea and a forlorn lighthouse jutting into the grey Irish sky , flashing blurry and red through the low clouds , omitting a lackadaisical moo only from time to time . |
| 23 | The invasion of Italy by Hannibal precipitated a series of military disasters on Rome and had a clear effect on her coinage : the purity of the silver was reduced ; the weight standard of the bronze coinage fell away from a standard of 135g to one of only 54g ; and a coinage of gold was issued ( before the Roman imperial period , gold coinage was unusual and generally produced only in times of emergency or crisis ) . |
| 24 | However the Tories , who have gone into coalition only in times of great national danger , can take heart from history . |
| 25 | Extensive floods are now uncommon and short-lived , occurring only in times of heavy and prolonged rain . |
| 26 | Blake was amazed at the discussion and how these men could talk about a whole planet in one conversation ; in his day it was not unusual for a conversation to centre solely on one part of London , and only in times of war was England ever considered as a single entity under threat . |
| 27 | Unfortunately we managed to arrive only in time for his funeral . ’ |
| 28 | Television arrived here only in time for Christmas 1986 . |
| 29 | Swaying slightly and humming tunelessly in time with the tinny notes of the recording , Duclos waited until the door closed quietly behind her , then made his way unsteadily back to his seat . |
| 30 | While such solidarity may cause the nation to bind together from time to time as in 1940 , at present it-is of a divisive nature rather than unifying . |