Example sentences of "[Wh det] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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1 | These provided work which for a time helped to stop young people leaving the Highlands . |
2 | Progress in the 19th century lay in improving refining techniques , in finding new uses ( especially in catalysis and electricity ) and discovering new sources , principally in the Urals — after which for a time the Russians adopted platinum coinage . |
3 | At about the same time , given by flags , which for a time went undetected by the 5th Battle Squadron , commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas . |
4 | Whether the West 's prerogatives are real , and whether or not they are exercised , the resolution of the territorial controversy has removed the one bone of contention which for a time made the Warsaw Pact a community of shared anxiety . |
5 | Two things happened , however , to divert trade unionism from the adoption of that role and to lead it instead into what has been called its revolutionary period , one which for a time made the ownership and control of industries by the people who worked in them its main objective , which sought in short to displace the organisation of industry on the capitalist model by an industrial co-operative commonwealth . |
6 | He received honours from Italy , Serbia , Montenegro , and the republic of San Marino , of which for a time he was consul in London . |
7 | One by one Europe 's heroes began to climb off the floor and mount a furious offensive which for a time at least threatened to overpower their rivals . |
8 | Kite was six under par when he inflicted on Clark the worst defeat in Ryder Cup singles history and in the process handed his side the initiative which for a time seemed it would n't relinquish . |
9 | These are the opinions of Lord White , Conservative peer and joint founder of Hanson , which for a time threatened to take over ICI . |
10 | UDCs were intended to be merely pump-primers to bring in the private sector , which after a time would be reduced as private sector finance took over . |
11 | This process involved the addition of doses of lime and soda ash which after a time led to precipitation of the hardness salts . |