Example sentences of "[adv] in [det] time " in BNC.

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1 He would have provided an excellent model for Stendhal 's portrait of the capricious but timid despot of Parma whose minister warned him that ‘ to have received power from Providence is no longer enough in these times ; it requires brains and a strong character to succeed in being a despot ’ .
2 She must have changed greatly in this time , although Gatsby still has a fixed , perfect image of her , seeing her more as goddess , than an ordinary human being , with bad as well as good points .
3 If you do n't recover sufficiently in this time , just slow down your repeats .
4 It is only in the last thirty-five years that animals had been allowed to have ‘ mental ’ processes other than learning and so it is only in that time that psychologists have developed the behavioural tests to investigate them .
5 That was all of the glass that was worn away in that time .
6 We were at Oxford together , Robert and I , and have often talked the night away in former times , mingling literature and politics and cheap red wine with the cigarette smoke and the laughter and the brittle pile of old Al Bowlly records he had stumbled upon in a junk-shop kept by a one-time Polish airman .
7 You 're away in half time .
8 Francis apologised to Jane : ‘ French is faster , you can say more in less time .
9 Now I 'd also in this time rung up the er forwarding address in Manchester , rung up the telephone number I 'd been given of the forwarding address .
10 At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve .
11 He leaned on her unhesitatingly in all times of crisis and disaster , remained all his life proud of her beauty , her birth and her intelligence …
12 In some places , and increasingly in these times , the whole assembly is taking a larger musical part .
13 Friday is market day and it must be admitted that even in these times of high-speed travel , mini-breaks , and the lure of the larger towns , Combsburgh comes alive .
14 He informed us in a haughty spirit that he would give my people thirty days to go back home , collect all their stock , and move to the reservation , saying , ‘ If you are not here in that time , I shall consider that you want to fight , and will send my soldiers to drive you on ’ .
15 Well that 's exactly what I mean , a very good illustration of somebody who makes himself more important by coming in fifteen and a half seconds late , which is not so late for a corporate session , but is late enough to , to make everyone worry and so on in that time .
16 Olympia has yielded magnificent bronzework from right through the archaic period , but stone sculpture there in this time is sparse and generally poor .
17 The whole sequence of events lasted only eight seconds , and yet in that time the cuckoo had also managed to lay its own egg .
18 We find ourselves once again in another time and country .
19 From this history , it can therefore be seen that the scope , size and shape of the Burston site has altered considerably in that time as a result of the £4 million that has been spent over that period .
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