Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Who knows , they may even enjoy a book so much that the next time the author is published they may even buy it at full price ! ) |
| 2 | I dared not even glance at " Happy " , but to add insult to injury I gave the order " About turn ! " and they repeated the gazelle-like jump even better than the first time . |
| 3 | But booms and slumps in economic activity occur periodically so that the relevant time period over which to measure economic growth is a number of years , e.g. the average rate of growth over ten years . |
| 4 | Simple arithmetic will show that if you wish the examiner to appreciate your answer you must present it to him so that the minimum time is required for reading , assessing and marking . |
| 5 | Once the system has established what is being asked of it , the request is stored so that the next time it comes up there is no need to waste time asking the same questions over again . |
| 6 | So that the next time a shop assistant ( particularly one who looks as if he might not know what day of the week it is ) asks how Sir or Madam will be paying they 'll say ‘ Cash ’ and make quite sure they rip up the receipt as they leave . |
| 7 | That gives him the space to make long-term bets , but also deprives him of advice against short-sightedness : borrowing sums that he can service only so long as the good times roll . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , the emphasis of current initiatives on waiting lists tends to be on reducing the wait for surgery rather than the waiting time for an appointment at an outpatient clinic . |
| 9 | It 's just that the first time it happens , especially if you are used to the more genteel reduction in power and revs of a Lycoming or a Continental when you throttle back , it does n't half make the old adrenalin start flowing . |
| 10 | If you hit your stride and get a rhythm going , you may feel comfortable going on a little longer than the minimum times . |
| 11 | Mighty Mogul eventually justified odds of 100-30 on , coming home six lengths clear from Ambuscade in a race that took over 12 minutes to complete , almost eight minutes longer than the standard time . |
| 12 | I wonder how many of you battled on for much longer than the allocated time or got demoralised and gave up ? |
| 13 | The recovery time should be rather longer than the running time , but can be reduced as you get fitter . |
| 14 | And it 's half past eight , approaching half time down at Lane , Notts County against Pisa in the Anglo-Italian Cup , across with Colin as soon as the half time whistle goes . |
| 15 | We 'll be across to Colin as soon as the half time whistle goes . |
| 16 | Well daddy 's one day and he up this big flagstone and it was er topping off a grave and did n't ken what to do so he just put the flagstone back and kept on and the next time he went to he and he it up again and he took up the skull and . |
| 17 | She knew all at once that the measured time , the false normality of banter , everything led to an end she dreaded . |
| 18 | Stratus will continue to build 80860- and 68000-based systems up until the 1994–95 time frame — possibly beyond — and plans at least one more iteration of the XA/R line before that . |
| 19 | Surprisingly , Daphne has found out that the best time of day for picking is midday . |
| 20 | In Ajdabiya a young man , Wunis Abdulhadi , the brother of the lawyer Abdulsalam Abdulhadi , pointed out that The Financial Times had already announced the formation of Libyan-financed joint enterprises and that the government had given months ago ; he concluded there was no point in discussing the issue . |
| 21 | Now that the bad times are back again , people inside and outside the industry are wondering why , after all the pain of the 1980s , it remains so weak . |
| 22 | From everything she says , it 's clear this gilgul 's been on the scene for quite a while — there is no way she could have learned what she 's learned , cleaned up her act and become who she is now if the only time she 's had to do it in was the brief interval between our confrontation at the Mephistco stand and her appearance on the beach at Bournemouth . |
| 23 | This time is not the period required overall but the actual time the chemical is in contact with the soil and is known as contact time . |
| 24 | No er not , not really because the only time I , I wa I was in trouble with the police was I was riding a bike without a light . |
| 25 | The Guardian , Times and Evening Standard have been half-hearted in their approach to paperback originals ; and the lowest scores were notched up by Today and the Financial Times . |
| 26 | Alternatively , it may be suggested that the question was how much the French should have been asked to concede ; and even if the critical time , ( according to Edmund Gullion , ) was ‘ right after the Elysee agreements of March 1949 ’ and for all the complaint that ‘ South-East Asia 's policy has been junked ’ , and dismay at Acheson 's ‘ French captivity , a closer inspection suggests that there may not in fact have been all that much difference in the assumptions upon which different parts of the State Department were operating . |
| 27 | It is OK , though , to hitch a napkin round your neck , even if the last time your wore one was when your nanny tied it for you . |
| 28 | Chettle back into the Leicester half now Thomson and Agnew combining well and the first time Ball volleyed out towards Ormanroyd . |
| 29 | She had n't last time I , cos we were talking about er when I say talking I do n't mean nastily but the last time I saw Janet I asked after Wendy and she said she was still working and enjoying her job and the children were growing up and she did n't mention any other children so cos her husband works away a lot of the year does n't he ? |
| 30 | He probably had the telly on so perhaps I just did n't but the last time they had er a siren on it was n't all that load I thought . |