Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , would n't it be possible to imagine someone who maintained both that motor cars were on our list of things that enhanced the quality of life and that travelling by motor car frequently took more time and demanded a greater outlay of labour than using various other means of transport ? |
| 2 | Roberto Baggio also scored four times . |
| 3 | First , though , there is a need to say something more general about Adorno 's position , in the context of the approach outlined in the previous chapter — particularly in light of the fact that Adorno evidently had little time for popular music ! |
| 4 | Jessica probably knew ten times more about these things than she did , she 'd had a million times more experience , at any rate . |
| 5 | Sally Drayton also had some time off early in that week and I suggested that we spend the Tuesday together . |
| 6 | Its fifteen subject committees usually met three times a year and contributed to the development of a long series of projects . |
| 7 | I realized that Hindley did not care what conditions he lived in , and Joseph clearly spent more time praying than cleaning . |
| 8 | All the difficulty sprang from high rents ; for his own farm , the landlord now paid four times more than he had twenty years ago , and he found this unfair : he would have been happy to go from five pounds a year to ten , but not to twenty . |
| 9 | In the description phase subjects viewed each film split into five second sections , after five seconds had been viewed the experimenter paused the video recording showing the subject a blank blue field , the subject then had unlimited time to describe the situation they had viewed and the events that had taken place . |
| 10 | Several other sets of doors were dotted around the floor and , far off to the left , a black maw opened up in the wall , with so little light coming from it that Benny was certain the tunnel beyond turned several times before reaching the outside world . |
| 11 | Children generally spent less time working and more time distracted as the size of their work groups increased from one to twenty . |
| 12 | The production of the draft report actually took less time than anticipated and was available by October 1984 — some seven months after the appraisal . |
| 13 | First , the hire period was short and the plaintiffs therefore had little time to arrange insurance . |
| 14 | Nothing happened at first , but Peccable had warned him the Bowls usually took some time to start from cold . |