Example sentences of "[verb] in an [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the addition of a residential weekend each term , student-hours will be increased sufficiently to result in an overall time span shorter than when we last used a weekly format . |
| 2 | Up to the beginning of this century people believed in an absolute time . |
| 3 | Another Middlesbrough and Cleveland athlete , Allison Curbishley , was also in superb form in the intermediate girls ' 300 metres hurdles , winning in an improving time of 44.6 minutes . |
| 4 | ‘ For man knoweth not his time ; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net , and as the birds that are caught in the snare ; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time , when it falleth suddenly upon them . ’ |
| 5 | They are born under the ancient Chinese curse , ‘ May you live in an interesting time ’ , a time in which values , lifestyles , relationships , employment are up for grabs , and in which traditional answers to the question ‘ How to live ? ’ are weak and conflicting . |