Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 It is during this time that torture most commonly occurs .
2 Since rainfall controls plant growth , and plants are the base of the food pyramid , deserts typically have only a short period when food is abundant ; it is during this time that the creatures of the desert must complete their breeding cycle .
3 It 's worth three times what he gave me for it . ’
4 The experimental limit on A given later in Section 11.5 is so that on Earth the acceleration due to the cosmological term is about 10–22 times that due to the gravitational pull of the Sun .
5 Thus , poly-L-ornithine is about 5–10 times more efficient for both transient and stable transfections of this cell type than other standard methods of gene transfer .
6 It is about this time of year that life at the headquarters of the Women Professional Golfers ' European Tour gets a little hectic for Membership Secretary Marion Davies .
7 It is about this time each day that the boy goes by . ’
8 It 's for this time .
9 We do not say that if a house is worth eight times as much as another the tax bill should be eight times as much .
10 But it is notable enough that the deal is worth 3.6 times the annual $125m sales value of these products .
11 No one person , other than our representatives is worth ten times the national wage average .
12 The firm is part of a consortium trying to beat off global competition for the Hong Kong airport deal which is worth three times as much as the channel tunnel .
13 E is for Extra Time :
14 Ooh it 's off this time
15 Table talk is of hard times , though .
16 Nathan is behind this time which means I can have the occasional shouted conversation with Tony .
17 ‘ It 's just one of those things , so try to remember what it 's like next time there 's a panic on , eh ?
18 That 's in normal times .
19 Now remember if it 's got six at the top it means it 's in two time .
20 Oh oh that 's in good time .
21 I just hope she 's in this time . ’
22 The Collection provides complete coverage of his management of Her Majesty 's from that time until his death in 1917 , including the original plans by the eminent theatre architect , C. J. Phipps .
23 So it 's all it 's from that time on it 's .
24 The second source is from medieval times , when the ‘ devil-cat ’ was feared and hated .
25 It is from this time onwards that the architectural style of Rome was developed and crystallised .
26 If he makes no will we can hardly say that there is in early times any common law as to how his goods shall be divided ; much or all will depend on local custom .
27 His chief assault on Political Economy is in Hard Times where Mr Gradgrind is its champion and representative .
28 With the show as buoyant as it is in these times , you will perhaps see why I have questioned his assertion that it is a local show and why I can absolutely refute the suggestion that we needed to discount .
29 What 's minus three times minus three ?
30 He 's on borrowed time .
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