Example sentences of "[verb] in [adj] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when we come to more details considerations — such as exactly where this ‘ golden age ’ is to be located in real historical time — then we are confronted with such a disorderly jumble of datemarks and vague historical allusions as to allow for wide margins of disagreement even among dedicated ‘ law-and-order ’ enthusiasts . |
| 2 | However , When we come to more detailed considerations — such as exactly where this ‘ golden age ’ is to be located in real historical time — then we are confronted with such a disorderly jumble of datemarks and vague historical allusion as to allow for wide margins of disagreement even among dedicated ‘ law-and-order ’ enthusiasts . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You start the weekend like a whirling dervish as you get jobs done in double quick time and rush around seeing people , making decisions and generally working wonders . |
| 6 | ‘ We were rather brusque and offhand with her when she came in that first time , ’ Waterman remembered . |
| 7 | All this , of course , happened in much less time than it takes to explain . |
| 8 | However , bargains were to be had in this depressed time , with a Cessna 0–2A expected to sell in the $85–105,000 range actually being sold for $56,000 . |
| 9 | Alas , within 10 years there were too many locomotive builders for the small number of orders being produced in those depressed time . |
| 10 | Two fire appliances arrived in double quick time and the chief fire officer soon detected the cause of the incident : deep in the bowels of Book House , the potatoes had burned dry . |
| 11 | How he disciplined himself to make ends meet in that difficult time he explained in his book What To Do When Someone Has Debt Problems , A Practical Survival Guide ( 1985 ) , in the Introduction to which he wrote : |
| 12 | the real thing can be recognised by the incredible number of bites you get in such short time . |
| 13 | It was born in that self-confident time when other changes she had doggedly forced past party muttering had been rewarded by a step-change in productivity and relatively low inflation . |
| 14 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
| 15 | Ten , almost eleven years , have passed and I have no notion as to what I was doing in all that time . ’ |
| 16 | Or is this perhaps my old friend Bernard Ingham coming in one more time to help the lady of his adoration ? |
| 17 | When they were all sitting cross-legged in the corridor , huddled in their blankets , staring wide-eyed at the two tough looking armed figures he realised they must present , Grant called in one last time to Springfield . |
| 18 | The day 's missed training would have to be fitted in some other time . |
| 19 | And his pretty face has n't changed in all that time . |
| 20 | I got changed in double quick time but she must have beaten me . |
| 21 | The theme continued in the issue of the Architectural Review entitled ‘ Counter Attack ’ , published in 1957. this time highlighting those agents and elements exempted from aesthetic control . |