Example sentences of "all time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steffi Graf is the best woman player of all time . |
| 2 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 3 | It resembles the pictures of dancers frozen for all time by the potters who made the Greek vases just to display their feats . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ Now and for all time in the future , human skills and human talents will be the major determinants of success or failure — not just for individuals but for a whole society in all of its social , cultural and commercial life . ’ |
| 5 | Now , I leave entirely on one side the question why on earth the present ratio between profits and incomes generally is so supremely right that for all time it ought to be preserved , or at any rate allowed only to diminish , regardless of anything else that happens , such as the growth of savings and accumulation of capital . |
| 6 | All time in this poem seems to be a running-down . |
| 7 | Marx was pointing out that the capitalist assumption that what motivates man everywhere and for all time is the search for profit , is totally misleading and is itself a product of capitalism . |
| 8 | What is the greatest car of all time ? |
| 9 | Even Johnny Carey , the club captain and reckoned to be the most versatile player of all time ( he had played in ten positions for United including goalkeeper ) , finished his working life modestly in the treasurer 's office of Trafford Borough Council after having gone the way of all managers in the grip of impatient and often ignorant directors . |
| 10 | In Jimmy Wilde , the world flyweight champion from 1916 , Britain produced one of the very greatest boxers of all time . |
| 11 | The moral opposition to boxing in the late twentieth century , which is essentially a continuation of an old Nonconformist hostility bolstered by science , is weakened by the popularity of men like Henry Cooper : 'Enry , the Londoner , the decent , gentle bruiser , who almost knocked out one of the greatest heavyweights of all time , but now prospers as a TV celebrity playing golf for charity or advertising deodorants . |
| 12 | And to move from B to Z movies , connoisseurs of the bizarre can now lay in their own copy of Edward Woods ’ Plan 9 From Outer Space ( Palace , £14.99 ) , once voted the most incompetent film of all time . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Steve Strange was forever drinking cocktails in nightclubs , while Ultravox perfected one of the least lovable recorded sounds of all time . |
| 14 | But He says the record will be ‘ less cameo-like and more cohesive ’ than Geldof 's Do They Know It 's Christmas , Time , which ousted Paul McCartney to become the best-selling British record of all time in 1984. release is scheduled for mid-January . |
| 15 | Retailers have effectively redefined ‘ debt ’ as ‘ credit ’ — a move which has been dubbed the greatest marketing coup of all time by the National Association of Citzens Advice Bureaux ( NACAB ) . |
| 16 | Retailers have effectively redefined ‘ debt ’ as ‘ credit ’ — a move which has been dubbed the greatest marketing coup of all time by the National Association of Citzens Advice Bureaux ( NACAB ) . |
| 17 | In short , this is a fine ‘ Wind in the Willows ’ for the 1990s ; but neither Mr Bennett nor Mr Milne has written the stage version for all time . |
| 18 | One of the biggest economic adventures of all time is , with luck , about to begin . |
| 19 | ONE OF Japan 's greatest sumo wrestlers of all time , Chiyonofuji , bowed out of the ring for good last week , defeated by an 18-year-old called Takahanada who promises to become the youngest yokozuna ( grand champion ) of all time . |
| 20 | ONE OF Japan 's greatest sumo wrestlers of all time , Chiyonofuji , bowed out of the ring for good last week , defeated by an 18-year-old called Takahanada who promises to become the youngest yokozuna ( grand champion ) of all time . |
| 21 | Even ‘ Batman ’ , supposedly one of the most successful films of all time , has not officially made a net profit — partly because it paid around $50m to Jack Nicholson . |
| 22 | He was the most successful Test captain of all time and one of the greatest as well . |
| 23 | He 'd been on the binge of all time , wrecking cars , hitting her , almost breaking two of her fingers . |
| 24 | First , I saw that she was chosen , and that for all time ‘ all generations will call [ her ] blessed ’ ( Luke 1.48 ) . |
| 25 | That was until four overgrown , talking terrapins with a fine line in Valley Speak and a craving for pizza turned Barron into the director of the ‘ most successful independent film of all time , by at least $60m ’ . |
| 26 | The most fêted boxer of all time , Muhammad Ali , was adored because of the skill he brought to the ring . |
| 27 | We are interested in all time and money-saving designs from farmers , workers and contractors and will award a first prize of £1,000 , two second prizes of £500 and all three third prizes of £250 for the best of the crop . |
| 28 | Subsequent events were to make the horse a leading candidate for the greatest bloodstock bargain of all time , but when the new owner first saw his purchase he was horrified . |
| 29 | Pretty Polly was indisputably one of the outstanding racemares of all time . |
| 30 | For Plato perceived God to be immutable , incorporeal , nameless , transcendent beyond all time and space . |