Example sentences of "[noun] in the time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | To have committed the heresy of being uncommitted to the right political dogma — or worse still being a political atheist may not mean the death penalty , but it sure is a heinous crime in the times we live in . |
2 | They are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in the time they spend as guardians of the shrine . |
3 | Kerr said : ‘ We are so pleased with what has been achieved by John and Mick in the time they have been here . |
4 | Quality matters more than quantity in the time you spend together . |
5 | The answering of each individual question in the time you have allowed must be planned like a military exercise . |
6 | He won the Commonwealth and European titles , married and became a father in the time he lived with his particular pain . |
7 | She herself had never aspired to a career , finding complete satisfaction in acting as her husband 's typist and research assistant in the time she had left over from gardening and housekeeping . |
8 | No problem to Lucy , who kept smiling through , witty and charming , zipping through three courses of creative cuisine into a smart frock and an atomised squirt of Coty L'Amant in the time it took Martin and ‘ the gang ’ to get home . |
9 | We are told he could outpace a pack of hounds and catch a fleeing fox with ease , and run from Porth to Llantrisant in the time it took his mother to boil a kettle . |
10 | Er but we dealt with quite a few serious accidents in the time I was there . |
11 | Light goes maybe 30 metres in the time it takes sound to travel the 0.2mm thickness of the emulsion . |
12 | The PROFITBOSS finds profit in the time he finds for people . |
13 | She stared out of the window and thought she could write a book in the time it was taking them to get to Nice , which really was just around the corner . |
14 | I could of finished that ship in the time we might of had |
15 | To allow the horses and their appended jockeys through , all points of the tape must rise by about 1 metre in the time it takes a horse to travel about the same distance from rest , perhaps much less than 0.1 seconds . |
16 | Knowledge-based innovations differ from all others in the time they take , in their casualty rates , and in their predictability , as well as in the challenges they pose to entrepreneurs . |
17 | That light travels at the speed of five times around the earth in the time it takes to say rice pudding is indeed an amazing matter . |
18 | er reading and I ha , I could n't hold of enough of the material in the time I 'd got to write the essay so I would n't have studied enough , so I did this one on machines , and I got hold of two good books . |