Example sentences of "[subord] for a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In principle a given plot of land produced one knight for a specified length of time each year ; to ensure that the service was regular and the responsibility clear , attempts were made — never very successfully , except for a time in England — to keep the holdings intact , to prevent their being divided between younger sons . |
| 2 | Although for a time Simone tagged along in his life , he never took the affair seriously . |
| 3 | Although for a time they were merely raiders , these Celtic cousins had ambitions to acquire land and permanent residence , and were as ready to fight the Picts as to co-operate with them . |
| 4 | Although for a time for a time , I was er I was with er er er an hotchpotch , mixed up outfit , wh which included er Americans , Canadians , er and British . |
| 5 | Although for a time earning the salary of a parliamentary under-secretary and writing thrilling romances of fashionable life , Smith lived quietly in a Bloomsbury lodging-house , cut off from society through his deafness . |
| 6 | ‘ I can suppress if for a time . |
| 7 | She had always known that Finn would reappear , because for a time they always did , never quite sure that the new woman was an improvement on the old one , keeping their options open . |
| 8 | erm On occupational health , and I do n't plead for those figures , because for a time , until Helen left to have her baby , we were fully staffed , and the number of inspections and the number of notices served and the number of prohibition notices served are very encouraging indeed . |
| 9 | Even knitting wool was on ration , but for a time a keen knitter could go into a shop and buy up hanks of thin darning wool ( un-rationed ) and use that to knit with , until some spoilsport in the Government ruined that idea by decreeing that all darning wool should be cut into approximately twenty inch lengths before it was put into the shops . |
| 10 | But for a time I could not do that to Georg . |
| 11 | I had read it hungrily in Lima when for a time it was the most substantial piece of luggage I possessed . |
| 12 | Cutting off the flow of refugees did not solve the financial problem , though for a time the government acted on the assumption that the refugee organisations could now look after themselves . |
| 13 | They had not been consulted and they knew that they would be caught in the middle if , as for a time seemed probable , there should be violent local protests . |