Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] the time " in BNC.
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1 | Armed with the Steamatic , there 's no need to get your hands dirty and the job is done in half the time . |
2 | If you want it done in half the time , you 've got to have twice as many people . |
3 | Our descent was made in one-fifth the time it had taken us to climb to our record-breaking altitude . |
4 | When you 've got an engine , erm , you Let's say we 've got an engine with a fixed amount of petrol going in all the time . |
5 | Escaping from under the pillow on the bed was the hem of a caftan , the soft kind he 'd slept in all the time I 'd known him . |
6 | Even though he 's calm and affable , he 's chain-smoked throughout the interview , and hardly smoked in all the time we 've spent together prior to it . |
7 | The consequence of this ‘ friendly and useful ’ advice was that the parts healed in half the time after the second operation as they did after the first . |
8 | Well I did n't book in all the time , cos . |
9 | I suppose they get fed up stuck in all the time , do n't they ? |
10 | It is important that an orchestra has new young players coming in all the time — we recently had a young Polish violinist who is one of the orchestra 's concert-masters , he is very promising , and full of music — but sometimes players leave us to fulfil their own dreams and ambitions . |
11 | and so on , every month their money is straight into the bank all their cheques come in straight into the bank so he 'll , you know , and I mean our pla , and the whole of the site nearly is let out for different people , you know , which is money coming in all the time |
12 | When I take one of them it seems to run in all the time know what I mean Doctor ? |
13 | Just some ordinary ones , just to stick in and leave in all the time . |
14 | ‘ It was like a cafe , with people dropping in all the time . |
15 | We 're the best meal place round 'ere , an' after all 'e used ter call in all the time when 'e 'ad that ovver job , ’ Carrie reminded him . |
16 | I come in all the time , I 'm never away . |
17 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |