Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 Computers believed their silences were ‘ no ’ answers — right half the time .
2 Er John it looks less defendable every time every time a real person opens their mouths John it becomes less and less defendable ?
3 In the case of the miller 's wife : ( She had not had so pleasant a time for many a long year )
4 That 's only half the time it took me last time .
5 So half the time I felt like killing him , and I got agoraphobia , because I was so depressed .
6 Oh my chest hurts so much every time I cough like that .
7 Essex have to get through regional qualifiers at Old Loughtonians on March 27–28 , but Chelmsford coach Dick Clarke believes unity is all important at so crucial a time .
8 He could not have done so much in so brief a time .
9 It just goes so quick the time does n't it ?
10 Never before have I had so good a time or taken so little medicine . ’
11 Well I went to work on the Saturday morning at six and we were dredging until half past twelve , then we would , then do repairs till five o'clock at night and then five o'clock at night , when the other crew had gone home , when I start to stay there then from five o'clock Saturday night till Monday morning six o'clock all the time just to keep watch on the dredger , I used to sleep mind you during part of the time and erm used to have a big old tortoise stove down the cabin and make good fire .
12 Hamburger joints and up-market American-style restaurants have been spreading all over Britain in the last few years , and their food has been getting more authentic and better all the time — at least in terms of taste .
13 The world was quite difficult enough as it was without people going around trying to make it better all the time .
14 Two-year-olds are learning so much all the time — and are eager to learn more .
15 Seventy-five per cent of couples said sleeping together all the time was a turn-off .
16 Developing a ‘ collaborative classroom ’ did not mean suddenly insisting that everyone works together all the time ( as some teachers fear may happen if enthusiasm for ‘ group work ’ gets out of hand ) , but rather creating conditions which would allow the collective resources of the group to be used to support and enhance across the whole range of classroom activity .
17 But it did n't necessarily mean that they would stay together all the time the they may they may even fall out with one another .
18 So it did n't necessarily mean that you get a squad of riveters that would stayed together all the time , erm for various reasons , as I say they may have been , unfortunately some of them might even die and therefore you had to make up the squad again
19 We were together all the time : played languid games of tennis on the court behind her house , swam , went on picnics , went for long walks up the lower slopes of Kinabalue , the mountain whose green and mauve shadowed mass loomed over Jesselton .
20 We are together all the time for weeks and months on end .
21 ‘ Our side is n't the type you could send out every week with instructions just to knock it long all the time .
22 And clutches not necessarily all the time ?
23 The Prime Minister was singing softly to himself when the Collector came in and continued to do so all the time he was there .
24 So all the time you 're thinking that .
25 You know , so all the time you 're up here , like this , and then perhaps you stay to try and get some work finished before you go home , and as sure as fate , that 's the day when you promised to take somebody out , when you go home , and you 've forgotten about it .
26 So all the time you can see that water on it .
27 so all the time I 've got him
28 It 's a full time commitment er t and you if you are very if if you are er like say it 's so all the time , it 's difficult for her then to cease to be that , to be somebody else .
29 As I say , it does n't bother me constantly all the time , Doctor you know , it 's just I feel I was carrying some shopping down the road
30 But I mean I do get used to being on my own and then like I mean I say he 's there like the , the other morni he went down his mother 's and he did n't come back till three o'clock so he 's not there constantly all the time .
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