Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gendarme stood bewildered for a moment , and then ran into the street , where for some time he could be heard blowing his whistle . |
| 2 | The importance of these spiritual disciplines is also recognized in Islam , where from earliest times there has been a certain class of men known as ‘ The Weepers ’ , who devote themselves to ascetic practices . |
| 3 | These are now kept on computer disc and copies can be run iff at any time . |
| 4 | There are several smart new dwellings here , no doubt built upon the old closes and orchards where at one time the Anabaptists were buried . |
| 5 | " Here are the Maplin Sands , off Foulness Island , where at one time we were going to have a great new airport complex , " he said . |
| 6 | The aim will be to run most order/purchasing and payment systems without paper except for unusual times . |
| 7 | A rather larger star — one of mass greater than about 1.2–1.4 times our Sun 's — can not contract in such a controlled way . |
| 8 | And with Venus in your own sign between February 2 and June 6 , there has to be more love and fulfilment around than for some time . |
| 9 | In fact he is probably feeling fresher and sharper now , hungrier to resume his England career than for some time . |
| 10 | ‘ The paperback market had now improved somewhat , and we believe that book production capacity and demand are more in balance than for some time ’ , he added . |
| 11 | Whether due to Anglo-American action or not , the Middle East became temporarily quieter than for some time . |
| 12 | Ian Rock , the chief executive , said yesterday : ‘ The group 's position is more stable than for some time , but it still requires a substantial improvement in the economy and a solution to the group 's gearing before it can achieve satisfactory returns on shareholders ’ funds . ’ |
| 13 | The company is now looking at a future that is brighter than for any time in the past 20 years . |
| 14 | Gradually they learn to discriminate , although for some time they can not determine what is influencing the mother 's movements towards or away from them . |
| 15 | Although during Roman times bronze and marble were the materials most commonly used in sculpture , the tradition of reproducing the human form in ivory was continued in the small scale reliefs carved on the backs of the writing tablets which served as official presents in pagan antiquity and as votive offerings in the early Christian church . |
| 16 | In the period February 21st-26th , the French losses amounted to 25,000 men , and , although during that time the ratio of French and German casualties was reliably estimated at three to one , by the 29th German losses had already passed the 25,000 mark . |
| 17 | In the first case , fieldworkers may have wished to retain certain functions , such as working directly with children and young people , as their prerogative , because they considered themselves to be better trained to undertake these tasks , albeit with limited time at their disposal and with , in some instances , limited skills . |
| 18 | Although in late times both Imhotep and Amenhotep , son of Hapu , had developed links with higher official cults — Imhotep as son of Ptah , and Amenhotep as son of Apis — they were primarily gods of the people . |
| 19 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend accept the good news , contrary to what was said by the hon. Member for Ashfield ( Mr. Haynes ) , that although in recent times my constituency has experienced economic difficulties , so successful has my right hon. and learned Friend 's training and enterprise programme been that the Crawley and District Industries Association has told me that this is the first time during a downturn in the economy when training by companies has increased rather than decreased ? |
| 20 | By then La Rotonde , which had opened in 1911 , had become the place for artists to meet , and every morning Nina met Modi selling his drawings for five francs ( although in bad times he reduced the price to three francs ) . |
| 21 | So perhaps the total inventory of species during warm times is , in practice , as high or even higher than in cooler times . |
| 22 | Conditions were perhaps better than in the new urban areas but a good deal worse than in earlier times . |
| 23 | Surviving remains date chiefly from the Hellenistic period ; in consequence , the columns are taller and slenderer than in earlier times and have a wider intercolumniation . |
| 24 | Under the Tudors the age-old practice of making a will spread down the social scale ; far more wills were made than in earlier times , even though the custom was still restricted to a minority of the population . |
| 25 | This has resulted in siblings being born much closer together than in earlier time periods . |
| 26 | Mycenaean Boiotia had indeed been open to the greater world , much more so than in classical times : in the Thebes Museum there are stirrup jars proving commerce with Minoan Krete , and there is even some lapis lazuli from Afghanistan , evidence of a Hittite connection . |
| 27 | Congenital and late syphilis , both neurological and cardiovascular , seem to be less common than in previous times . |
| 28 | ‘ To be honest , we have not been any busier this year but the accident toll has been higher than in previous times . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Goodman adds that the company was fortunate to have started up in the recession , because services could be had more cheaply than in easier times . |
| 30 | The outlook is not entirely bleak and it is reckoned that of those who enrol at a clinic , for whatever reason , about 40 per cent will be drug-free within ten years , although within that time , too , 15 per cent of opiate addicts may well be dead . |