Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Determination alone does not get you through life , and these were becoming hard times for me . |
| 2 | He observed that few libraries had developed a comprehensive approach to stock management , and that , on average , university libraries were acquiring eight times as many materials as they discarded . |
| 3 | A day after his wife , Hillary , spoke out against profiteering by vaccine makers , Mr Clinton said the industry 's profits were rising four times faster than those of an average major company . |
| 4 | By 1987 more than half of Scottish consultant psychiatrists were spending some time each week in primary care settings compared with fewer than a fifth in England and Wales . |
| 5 | A poll of 492 firms showed that 70% find audit work ‘ uneconomic ’ as a result of the cost of audit regulation , combined with client pressure on fees : 76.8% said that more partners and staff were spending non-chargeable time on audit regulation matters , while only 31.7% were able to pass these increased costs on to clients . |
| 6 | A number of arts professional development teachers reported that their involvement in schools was often initiated by primary headteachers feeling that staff were giving inadequate time to an area of the curriculum vital to the personal development of the pupils . |
| 7 | RUC were taking some time to settle down but once Davy Barbour had landed his first penalty from about 50 metres the lights went out and the Holywood stars faded . |
| 8 | Ten were working full time when interviewed , only two being unemployed ( one by choice since surgery ; the second for medical reasons ) . |
| 9 | By the middle years of the nineteenth century a high proportion of the male workforce were without land and were working full time at the craft ; women and girls also found employment in large numbers . |
| 10 | It was , however , a losing battle : by the turn of the century the Solvay process was producing six times as much soda as the Leblanc . |
| 11 | Oh I was bored to tears and I was eating whole time |
| 12 | I felt the world beginning to drift into the distance again , but I knew what was happening this time and got my head down quickly . |
| 13 | ‘ He was n't , but I told him that Sean 'n' Michael was havin' hard times and had to draw in the reins a bit . |
| 14 | Before he was twenty ( an age at which most FI drivers today are already well established in the regular line of ascent towards FI ) , Mario was racing several times a week — sometimes five races in a day — in whatever cars he could get his hands on : jalopies , sprints , three-quarter midgets , midgets . |
| 15 | The feeling was growing each time they met , and Alain 's dark eyes told her he knew . |
| 16 | According to Wilson , welfare payments were the " prime engine " powering the state 's budget deficit , and the number of welfare recipients was rising four times faster than the population at large . |
| 17 | Oh I 'm really pleased about that , cos last time on a , I was really disappointed I 'd been refused the course cos I thought oh , it 'll be right up my street that , cos when I was teaching full time I was quite into these er computers at the beginning and the one that went |
| 18 | The possibility that the MacQuillan empire was facing hard times raised interesting questions about the future of the Post , but Rain 's glass was empty and Shildon read that as a signal that she was impatient to leave . |
| 19 | Look at that was coming next time . |
| 20 | The sun was shining this time , but Alyssia would have remembered that little house anywhere . |
| 21 | and Scott 's a bit more sensitive like , you know , because he was crying last time , Laura said he was nearly crying over it |
| 22 | Now Tom was managing the manor farm , Dolly was spending much time at the dairy there . |
| 23 | There was obvious tension between Slozil , Steffi Graf 's former coach , and Capriati and between the coach and Mr Capriati , who did not believe his daughter was spending enough time practising on court . |
| 24 | He still had a low boredom threshold — which was why he was spending less time going to Equity Council meetings . |
| 25 | ‘ I was reminded of this a year ago when I was spending some time with one of my sisters . |
| 26 | Although I was still barely into my teens when I was spending this time with Maureen tending sick birds , I learned a lot about general care and identification — even if we failed to spot our Russian defector . |
| 27 | She had tried everything , including osteopaths , chiropractors , physiotherapy , traction and , finally , pain-killers which she was taking four times a day , every day . |
| 28 | Today , McRae was chasing lost time and ended up driving into a ditch , but will still be the first British driver home . |
| 29 | I was making good time when my eye was caught by a small , wooden sign , on which was written , ‘ Harristown Dolmen ’ . |
| 30 | The mist had lifted in the night and Marler was making good time . |