Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since real output could also change only slowly over time in response to changes in aggregate demand , it followed that the rate of monetary growth would in the long run be correlated with the rate of inflation . |
| 2 | Peter McEnery and Dorothy Tutin ( above ) play the middle-aged ex-lovers who iron out the wrinkles and get together just in time for the final curtain . |
| 3 | Hello sha n't be long just in time for a cuppa . |
| 4 | I was the last to arrive , and I was only just in time for dinner . |
| 5 | He had wakened at eleven thirty , only just in time for his lunchtime gig . |
| 6 | At length the little lad grabs her sleeve and becomes insistent , and she is only just in time with the sick bag . |
| 7 | The picture which emerges from research , from that of Dorothy Wedderburn in the 1960s to that of Sara Arber and her colleagues in the 1980s , on the relationship between pensioners and younger relatives , friends and neighbours , is not one of simple dependency of the old upon the young , but of an exchange relationship to which both sides contribute which shifts only gradually over time towards the younger participants being the predominant givers ( Cole and Utting , 1962 ; Gilbert et al. , 1989 ; Evandrou et al. , 1986 ) providing a significant volume of services which would otherwise be a costly burden on the state . |
| 8 | It can hardly be coincidental that these remarkable evolutionary events , taking place within only a few million years , correspond so closely in time with an episode of exceptional igneous and urogenic activity ( Larsen & Pitman , 1972 ) , the rapid disintegration of Pangaea ( Hallam , 1980 ) and the biggest marine transgression since the mid-Palaeozoic , apparently produced either by a phase of accelerated sea-floor spreading or by a dramatic increase in the length of the ocean ridge system . |
| 9 | A MISSING teenager returned home yesterday just in time for her birthday . |
| 10 | The third period saw even more frantic goalscoring as Titmuss scored four times and captain Parry twice , Brian Jackson finishing things off just before time with an unassisted goal his third of the game to cause a result which will shock rival teams in the league . |
| 11 | By and large , the more important a command ( importance being judged by the size of territorial authority , or , more appropriately in time of peace , by the numbers of men involved ) the more likely it was to be given to a man who had achieved it as a result of attendance at court . |
| 12 | Other water-loving species turned up here from time to time also — Mimulus and forget-me-not and Water Speedwell . |
| 13 | The 2nd edition of Cobol for Students by A. Parkin came out just in time for a course which started in January . |
| 14 | But he was always sure to be back home in time for dinner every night . |
| 15 | The kid was back home in time for lunch . ’ |
| 16 | The firm still refers clients to Deacon Gray and Sandra goes back there from time to time for training courses . |
| 17 | It 's true I think er as Mr said at some length er that er this measure would not prevent hunting in in most of the area in which it it takes place , through plenty of it happens of course well to the West of the A six er perhaps it might even get out there from time to time but our duty clearly is to see er that the right thing is done in the territory which is our responsibility and our other responsibility is surely to set an example of decent humanity . |
| 18 | SIR — As the Labour Party can not be trusted to display the red rose without it withering , may we have it back again in time for St George 's Day , April 23 , so that it may be proudly worn again by loyal Englishmen . |
| 19 | Television arrived here only in time for Christmas 1986 . |
| 20 | As they approached and noticed the unlit chillim , one of them passed us her tinder , commenting with a smile that they 'd got here just in time for all of us : they needed a smoke , and we needed a light . |
| 21 | She got the 7.15 bus , feeling an anxious as a mother who is n't home in time for when her little boy comes back from school . |
| 22 | The population found itself thrust back even further in time in its working and living conditions . |
| 23 | The customer would probably be unhappy if the project were completed well ahead of time at the expense of some key quality aspect . |
| 24 | Mrs Goodhaven went to a committee meeting , then home in time to be there when you telephoned . |
| 25 | ‘ It gets a bit rough round here from time to time , there 's a power station out past the ridge and the boys do their drinking here , but mostly we 're pretty friendly . ’ |
| 26 | John Dalton 's action seems to have been very near in time to the crisis in his own life when he was temporarily imprisoned for his support of the Earl of Lancaster . |
| 27 | Such tests are always considerably ahead in time of tests on pilot batches . |