Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [det] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst I have said 2 years as the expected time to be collecting Community Charge I think this should be qualified with 2 years plus , with income being received for some considerable time thereafter especially through Sheriff Officers . |
| 2 | But progress may nevertheless be very slow and unemployment will persist for some long time . |
| 3 | You were checking about that last time we met . |
| 4 | Why do you want to know after all this time ? ’ |
| 5 | That was all , the slightest touch of his fingers on hers , but she was reminded of that other time he had touched her , when he 'd helped her out of the pool , and now , as then , something inside her responded to his touch . |
| 6 | Radiating out from the speaker are a number of concentric circles distinguishing different zones of spatial proximity ; through the speaker passes a " tame line " , on which events prior to his present utt rance , and events prior to those , can be linearly arranged , and similarly events at points and spans in the future ; while the discourse to which the speaker contributes unfolds along this same time line . |
| 7 | It was still not yet fully dark outside , and if she were to look out of the window , she would be able to see at once whether the outside world was part of her own world or whether it , too , was caught in this terrifying time slip . |
| 8 | These are more pervasive influences , not usually confined to any one time , and may be said to define the personal milieu in which the child spends his early years . |
| 9 | Erm I did know at that particular time know what it was to have holes in my shoes , and a piece of cardboard put into it to protect your foot from the hole . |
| 10 | Mick , I honestly do n't know at this present time . |
| 11 | Fewer teachers have difficulties in responding to reminders that children share substantial common ground regardless of whatever special attention they may need at any one time . |
| 12 | This is the money required to make up the difference between what the company can pay and what it owes at any one time or , in accounts department terms , net current assets minus current liabilities . |
| 13 | This is the money required to make up the difference between what the company can pay and what it owes at any one time or , in accounts department terms , net current assets minus current liabilities . |
| 14 | The thing that worries some people is that as it 's come at this particular time that some of the things that might have been done five years ago by Local Education Authorities to improve their whole education for children with special needs may now , either through other competing financial pressures , or through inertia or whatever , the whole spirit of Warnock could be lost , and I think it 's a thing that , you know , one will have to keep a careful eye on . |
| 15 | It would not be unusual to find at any given time , a significant number of staff in a school involved in part-time study or research activities . ) |
| 16 | If , as this example suggests , partial word strings of more than two words are necessary to guarantee selection of the correct word-string , then the number of alternative partial word strings that has to be considered at any one time will increase correspondingly , particularly when words are hypothesized from a mid-class input . |
| 17 | This would still leave the vaults of the Prado in Madrid with approximately five times the number of paintings that it can display at any one time . |
| 18 | This is a common type of dialogue box containing more information than the box can display at any one time . |
| 19 | The maximum , I think we 've ever let at any one time is three of the six units , we 're currently down only to one unit there at Alberney . |
| 20 | He recalls that the Chancellor came in to the store at around 5pm , and stands by this approximate time even though he is well aware that Mr Lamont was then in a Treasury Select Committee at the House of Commons . |
| 21 | Well it 's got some different meanings that and you may be able to talk about that another time with your teacher . |
| 22 | Strangely , her mother 's moods , Agnes had noticed for some long time now , were more evident in the evening . |
| 23 | This meant that school-children taking ‘ O ’ and ‘ A ’ levels were not moved during this crucial time and so disruption to schooling did not present a major problem for parents . |
| 24 | Florence Ames had written after all this time , four or was it six months ? |
| 25 | He had expected her to drift away , but of all the people connected with that unhappy time in his life , she was the one who stayed . |
| 26 | But getting the chemical into the tank is now done in much less time , says Mr Doig , and the 2,500-litre sprayer can be filled with water and the contents of nine or ten packs of typical wheat herbicide in less than 15 minutes . |
| 27 | ‘ We were rather brusque and offhand with her when she came in that first time , ’ Waterman remembered . |
| 28 | The Iraqis moved armour into positions south of Basrah to block the more obvious of these steps and the Iranians evidently decided that Kuwait could be attended to some other time . |
| 29 | Miranda sat in her room feeling thoroughly miserable , and going back over and over again in her head every single significant thing that Miles had said or done since that first time he kissed her on the Promenade . |
| 30 | In this task subjects read a passage in which only one word ( Aaronson and Scarborough , 1976 ) , or a small group of words ( Mitchell and Green , 1978 ) , are presented at any one time . |