Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps this time Cinderella will go to the ball . |
| 2 | It sounds well , looks well , for all its updating to more or less modern times . |
| 3 | Last year , you 'll remember , we had to absorb , in fact in the Tussauds group , about three quarters of a million er , pounds on the increase in V A T and that was a blow to us at the beginning of the season , you remember it was the budget more or less this time last year . |
| 4 | Since then , the hierarchy has met more or less three times per year , but usually in secret sessions . |
| 5 | It 's the pasta Italians use for those glorious family feasts that mark special occasions — or just any time they feel like spoiling themselves at table ! |
| 6 | It was a grand or more each time . |
| 7 | This amounted to some 100 suicides per 100,000 Greenlanders , or nearly 17 times the rate in 1960 . |
| 8 | This was a particularly important assumption in that many lenders , forced by deregulation of financial markets to fight for business , offered borrowers loans at multiples of three or even three-and-a-half times their gross salary . |
| 9 | I assure my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon , North-West ( Mr. Malins ) that an examination of other elected assemblies which can be paralleled to ours in Europe , America or elsewhere shows that we in the British House of Commons spend three , four or even five times longer debating legislation . |
| 10 | There may have been a body of people , in medieval or even later times , who , either quite consciously or otherwise , planted clumps or individual trees in the ‘ right ’ spots . |
| 11 | After that , a top executive tends to get stale , in Pearce 's opinion , because ‘ you 're seeing the same problems coming up for the second , third or even fourth time and you begin to think you 've done it all before . |
| 12 | They lay more eggs than European owls : the mean clutch size in Malaysia is 6.6 compared with around 5.5 in Europe ; and while Europeans lay only one clutch each year , the Malayan barn owls reproduce twice or even three times a year . |
| 13 | Nor do I believe that to be a good Christian you have to attend chapel or church every week , or even three times a year . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly Brazil has the best hydro-electric power potential of any country in the world estimated at over 200,000 MW or around four times the capacity of the UK 's national grid . |
| 15 | No and we 'd got three young girls , new , new girls and I saw those and I must have been thinking about Mandy and the car because they said something about oh when we leave we 're all going on a picnic to and I think it was Kettering or quite some time aw some |
| 16 | As more Disability Arts Forums emerge and the involvement of disabled people and non-disabled allies increases , this is the most rapidly shifting and most exciting time to be working towards this aim . |
| 17 | Was n't she entitled to some time of her own after a busy week 's teaching and little free time on Saturday ? |
| 18 | The protests will be bigger and louder this time . ’ |
| 19 | There stood the Shah , impeccable as ever in a well-cut grey suit and rather loud time ramrod straight , his face , always , expressionless before the cold white stare of his father . |
| 20 | I think she has a fair point , even if there were better times in this home and altogether better times in other homes . |
| 21 | The austere ideal , the man who acts out his principles and endures what is — can you imagine Michel Devaux saying as my father so often did , I 've only got one life and so much time , I ca n't afford to stand back ? |
| 22 | They enable the text of bills to be much shorter than would otherwise be possible and so much time is saved on the discussions of new legislation . |
| 23 | It had taken her months to get used to eating so late and so many times a day . |
| 24 | Selecting items for your wedding list and first home together can be a bewildering experience with so much to choose from and so little time . |
| 25 | There 's so much of it and so little time . |
| 26 | Starting tomorrow there 'll be so much to do and so little time ; the ship has promised a safe electrical supply powered by a generator , a washing machine , painted wards , new door frames , repairs to the walls and furniture . |
| 27 | If firms find that they are not producing enough to satisfy demand , they will experience an unwanted fall in their inventories and so this time will attempt to increase production and hire more workers . |
| 28 | So much to do and so little time ! |
| 29 | The " non-dreamers " reported dreams on less than half the occasions when woken from REM sleep ( 19 out of 42 ) and only 7 times in 43 awakenings from REM sleep . |
| 30 | The next job was to plug in the PostScript card , which is no larger than the average credit card , and only three times as thick . |