Example sentences of "[det] the time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm scared to death half the time that when I do start talking about the woman in my life that I wo n't know where to stop , and … ’ |
| 2 | Or , for half the time but twice the luxury , they could go in June with Airtours for seven nights to the Hotel Magaluf near Palma in Mallorca , via Stansted , for £976 . |
| 3 | I do n't pretend to understand the man 's mind half the time but he 's never short of a story . ’ |
| 4 | The responses I heard to that question were most unsatisfactory , the County Council 's response was , ah , well we 'll have to get together again with the group of authorities , now if you look back over how long it has taken to produce this particular strategy that 's exceedingly worrying , that means they 'll have to get together again , even if it takes half the time or a third of the time , they 'll have to get together again towards nineteen ninety seven ninety eight to be considering the strategy post two thousand and six . |
| 5 | That 'll leave it wide open for the supermarket boys to market a ‘ free-range acorn-fed pork ’ — an intensively bred pig , fattened up in woods in half the time and costing well under an eighth of the price . ’ |
| 6 | It 's easy to feel like Ziggy — of course it is — you play it on stage half the time and then you come home and have to be David Jones and I do n't have too much patience for that talk . |
| 7 | looking at the other person for at least half the time and holding eye contact for a complete thought ( usually about five seconds ) |
| 8 | He 's going to give a price and somebody else is going to give a price in competition , and half the time if he 's lucky he 'll get the jobs . |
| 9 | Living in a totalitarian system , he said , ‘ you are taught all the time that it 's unbreakable . |
| 10 | Watching the spectacle , one has the weird sensation that the actors really knew all the time that their professions were illusory , and that there was a kind of gigantic tacit conspiracy to pretend . |
| 11 | Either the Führer 's statement , the report went on , meant that he had allowed himself to be badly deceived and was not , therefore , the genius he was always alleged to be ; or he had intentionally lied to the people about rising war production , knowing all the time that saboteurs were at work . |
| 12 | It 's like having a tune in yer head all the time that you ca n't shake out . |
| 13 | ‘ What a funny old election this is , at which the political parties argue about taxation and legislation but declare all the time that they intend the electors of this country to have no further control over the very questions that are being put to them . ’ |
| 14 | I have waited a long time before writing to you , hoping all the time that I might hear good news of Leslie from Wendy . |
| 15 | All the time that our parents are alive , we are the younger generation , at least to them . |
| 16 | She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained . |
| 17 | Maxine told me that she had known all the time that she was her twentieth-century self and that she was sitting in a comfortable chair in my consulting room . |
| 18 | I was under the impression all the time that she was Elizabeth Taylor . ’ |
| 19 | He had thought of Harry all the way out of Rome to Leonardo da Vinci , all the time that he had stood in the check-in line , all the time he had sat on the Alitalia , all the time he had stood at Customs and Immigration at Athens International , all the time in the taxi out to the Kifisia suburb . |
| 20 | and erm , they were absolutely chocker , they were really full and he said erm , I sa , he said he had n't had to fill them up at all in all the time that it 's been running , and no , I asked him if he had any enquiries and nobody stopped him and asked anything about it , and then he turned to the other lad who was beside him the sales assistant and he said no I 've had no enquiries at all , so that was it . |
| 21 | You definitely feel all the time that it could go faster than it ought to — it 's a jet fighter rather than an airbus . ’ |
| 22 | For all the time that we spend doing it — about one third of our lives — we have very little natural insight into the sleeping process . |
| 23 | Plodding around in the dark hoping you might stumble over something , and knowing all the time that half a dozen people could throw the light-switch if they wanted to . |
| 24 | I did manage to lose half a stone ( 7lb/3kg ) , but I was so hungry all the time that I would not keep the diet up for longer than a month . |
| 25 | I was driving along t you know t telling David that all the time that that people are on the roads practising how to drive and becoming better drivers there are people like that wally there crossing the roa Oh , it 's Simon . |
| 26 | God only knew how he had tried to replace her in his thoughts and in his heart — striking relationships with one woman after another , lurching from one crisis to the next , building his business with her in mind … driving himself like a man demented and amassing a fortune , yet knowing all the time that he was striving for the impossible . |
| 27 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 28 | And at this hour , I have all the time that I need . ’ |
| 29 | Then he had realised that the originator of the plot could just as easily have been Burun — intending all the time that it should fail — achieving at a stroke the removal of effective opposition , placing Artai in debt to the Merkuts for the security of his throne . |
| 30 | I 'm on a diet but I find I 'm so hungry all the time that I 'm just miserable and ca n't concentrate on anything . |