Example sentences of "life time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he explores the poetry of Byron at Salisbury he works hard at his arithmetic and English composition until he is ‘ chosen as fit to enter the Civil Service , to hold for the rest of my active life time the pen that is mightier ( when you get a good one ) than the sword ( when you get a bad one ) . ’ |
| 2 | She was lucky , she realised , that her financial situation remained much as it was in Donald 's life time . |
| 3 | This is due to the very limited life time of the adsorbent in this situation and the cost of its replacement is considered to be too high . |
| 4 | As co-founder , it was , for me , the culmination of ‘ a life time 's dream ’ , nearly three years of work and over thirty years experience developing coaching programmes for juniors and seniors of all levels through Stonebridge Tennis and The Stonebridge Academy . |
| 5 | On the floor , in the filth and the watery amber half-light , he scraped at the bolt that had felt the boots and slippers and sandals of the prisoners who had encompassed his life time . |
| 6 | Whether this visit took place after Anselm 's return to England in September 1100 is unclear , but Anselm left the pope in no doubt about his view of the matter , and the pope promised to send no legate with authority over Canterbury during Anselm 's life time ; but it is clear that he did not , and could not , accept the Canterbury claim made by Anselm , that he should never appoint a legate in England other than the archbishop himself . |
| 7 | Thus informed and protected you are ready — but only if it seems right for you — to embark upon a sexual journey that will last in one way or another for a life time . |
| 8 | Seems like a life time ! |
| 9 | Emmonsailes Heath , now known as Ails worth Heath , shrank drastically during Clare 's life time , the result of the Enclosure Act which was enforced in Helps ton in 1809 . |
| 10 | In particular I know of no estimates of the numbers who continue on a part-time basis , undeclared for tax , to sell skills acquired during their working life time . |
| 11 | Recorded in Vienna on their '89 tour of duty and mixing established Rollins-show standards from ‘ Hot Animal Machine ’ , ‘ Life Time ’ and ‘ Hard Volume ’ along with a handful of ( as yet ) unreleased items — the most spectacular being the towering desolation of ‘ Out There ’ — ‘ Turned On ’ is the closest possible documentation of the live Rollins experience short of having the man come and play in your front room . |
| 12 | Not only to his health but is to his life and I mean er cutting his life time short , my opinion . |
| 13 | It was an occasion filled with memories of a life time in the carpet business , highlighted with speeches by Ralph Ellis , Rod Turnbull , Steve Higgins and from customers who have known him for a long time . |
| 14 | The thing is you only do this probably once in a life time . |
| 15 | Well looking back on it now it seems almost a life time away but it 's amazing just how well you can remember those far off days . |
| 16 | Recorded in Vienna on their '89 tour of duty and mixing established Rollins-show standards from ‘ Hot Animal Machine ’ , ‘ Life Time ’ and ‘ Hard Volume ’ along with a handful of ( as yet ) unreleased items — the most spectacular being the towering desolation of ‘ Out There ’ — ‘ Turned On ’ is the closest possible documentation of the live Rollins experience short of having the man come and play in your front room . |
| 17 | Equally dull rhetoric appears in : ( " Never during his life time though he were a hundred miles the other side of Rome in any circumstances would I take a mortal man to be my mate … " ) |
| 18 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 19 | admitting things like losing fifty billion quid on fluttering on foreign exchanges er Mr did or flittering away the north sea oil revenue in tax cuts for higher earners rather than er keeping that er once in a life time er bonus that this country had for the north sea oil and also you could mention the increased pension for but it did n't match billions that have been wasted on defence expenditure especially defence expenditure and especially the trident programme . |
| 20 | We are offering a once in a life time chance to enjoy dancing . |
| 21 | ‘ During my life time , I have seen more uncertainty than exists today … |
| 22 | Listen if I had enough time I 'll tell you the joke of a life time mate , but I have n't got the time . |
| 23 | I knew er lots on beat and pic bits and pieces out of them but er , bloody amazing how many , how many he wrote in his life time . |