Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not something I particularly thought an awful lot of until I came on crime prevention , because before that I was in police uniform with marked cars with the radio , although half the time in Harlow , the radios do n't work cos we 're getting . |
| 2 | In the Calder Valley district , the Yorkshire Water Authority 's data showed the EC limits were met less than half the time in 1988 . |
| 3 | Essential field trips could be charged for if more than half the time spent on the visit was outside school hours , and ‘ optional extras ’ such as individual music lessons might also incur a charge . |
| 4 | Its cost is estimated at £6-£12 , compared to compact fluorescent bulbs , which cost around £13-£16 , but last less than half the time . |
| 5 | Why keep wasting 13 years when Labour can prove the same point in less than half the time . |
| 6 | But then by the time they were fin he retired and they were finishing they were ta they were taking about less than half the time . |
| 7 | I mean er , I did n't like er that Friday night it were hor horrible shift , cos half the time you used to turn up , only half a team would turn up and you 'd be expected to do |
| 8 | I 'd better have about three cos half the time they have n't bloody got them up there |
| 9 | Yeah , that was like me , I mean like I 'd , I was n't bad like , cos all the time I was just wearing like polo necks or like shirts with high collars and stuff cos it was n't actually on my neck it was just like on my , this one . |
| 10 | And I I said , he said ooh yes , the two girls come the alley on their own this is the their birthday cake ma , and I really jumped I said , cos we were right in the front , I thought what the hell 's he doing ! but what they were dressed in and she said , so I said , oh yeah well I did n't like it that I do n't know what 's wrong cos all the time they did . |
| 11 | Some of the lecturers keep saying in a lecture , ‘ this is somehow related to something else you 've done somewhere else ’ and I wish they 'd tell us how it 's related to something else because half the time we ca n't see that . |
| 12 | I choose patterns with only a few passes with the lace carriage because all the time this carriage is in operation no inches ( sorry centimetres ) are being added to the length of the garment . |
| 13 | My selfconfidence had been eroded because all the time she told me that I was a failure . |
| 14 | The reason why of course and I take this as a matter of pride because er not only am I , I think probably the only member of the L S E as published in Nature recently , but erm er the other thing I take pride in is the fact that erm one really ca n't ignore it , because all the time stuff is being published in the world 's leading science journal which is directly relevant to this course and how many other courses are in L S E are like that ? |
| 15 | Another more formal card , to her surprise , came from Ernest and Emily Brewer ; while all the time bouquets of one sort or another kept pouring in : from the receptionist in Harley Street , from Brian 's secretary , the nurses at his hospital and even an enormous sheaf of gladioli from ‘ All at Brentwoods ’ . |
| 16 | I spent the rest of the evening pretending riveted attention on the discussion while all the time practising ways of looking at the two women without them catching me . |
| 17 | They want us to think they will advance through Charleroi , while all the time they will come towards us here ! |
| 18 | This was principally because he had taken up fire-watching duties there , and once or twice a week he would go up on the roof : he would have heard the sound of the aircraft , and the bursts of shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns , while all the time scrutinizing the " blacked out " city for the evidence of fires . |
| 19 | They stood among the hogsheads , their wide aprons marked by entrails , their blood-reddened hands dexterously wielding sharp little knives as they slit open the silver bellies and tossed aside the innards — while all the time they chattered endlessly , matching their skill in removing entrails with a similar expertise at gutting other people 's private lives . |
| 20 | Gregory XI , who became pope in 1370 , at once initiated peace moves , following which negotiations were conducted at Bruges in 1374 and 1375 ; unfortunately , as much because of English obstinacy as of French , only a truce until April 1377 was effected , while all the time the French threat grew more menacing , with the consequence that papal efforts again incurred suspicion . |
| 21 | They stretched and rolled their naked bodies with limbs akimbo to show their most intimate places to the lusting , curious or disapproving ; while all the time the powerful spotlight highlighted the contrasting colours of their glistening skin , making them look like molasses and honey . |
| 22 | It 's comical to see all these people agreeing sagely with each other that users really want loads of functions rather than just a good deal , while all the time mopping their brows with relief that the price wars seemed to have petered out . |
| 23 | Opposite the village the Gotthard line executes two further tunnel-loops in succession almost carrying out a figure-of-eight while all the time gaining a further height of 122m ( 400ft ) inside the rock . |
| 24 | ‘ Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to , while all the time we long to move the stars to pity . ’ |
| 25 | She points out , however , that man 's power over woman , like his power over language , is illusory , for ‘ man thinks he shapes and masters and exchanges words and women , while all the time language is shaping and mastering him ( and women ) , so that his exchanges and controls and double standards must be as mutable as language itself ’ ( 246 ) . |
| 26 | She hated to think of his sister lying in hospital waiting for her husband to come to her while all the time he was with Dana . |
| 27 | I can hear Victor asking what I 'd do if I started losing the fight ; let them kick me about while all the time I could stop them ; let them find the gun ? |
| 28 | Down went his fingers , down her arms to her elbows , cupping them in his palms , feeling the smoothness , while all the time his mouth explored the nape of her neck , the small bones down her spine to the sensitive areas of her upper back . |
| 29 | Does he remember the period after 1985 when he came to the Dispatch Box and abolished the death grant and took away maternity grant and income support for 16 and 17-year-olds , while all the time pensioners were losing £14 a week ? |
| 30 | while all the time the euphemistic curtains |