Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time spent in careful planning at the beginning of a test can make the test more efficient and economical and save much time in its execution . |
| 2 | And she had not been half asleep and dreaming this time . |
| 3 | The stork has been flying low and landed three times in the Surrey area recently , visiting . |
| 4 | Tell her to sit on that and swivel three times . |
| 5 | Cash with order or cash on delivery is always better than cash some time in the future . |
| 6 | After swimming she had felt completely alive and glad to be awake and have this time of her own , which had been a gift to her from Tom and Maggie . |
| 7 | Apparently they wanted to get away from it all and spend some time alone together . ’ |
| 8 | A third patient died suddenly after rupture of an aortic aneurysm 63 months after orthotopic transplantation , having been previously well and working full time . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm bowling a bit quicker , but they main difference is that I feel more confident and settled this time , ’ he explained . |
| 10 | I did and I chose black and grey that time round . |
| 11 | Gerald has been married and divorced 4 times . |
| 12 | The processor is scheduled in such a way that interactive machines get processor time more frequently than non- interactive ( batch ) machines , and programs which use short processor time slices are serviced before those that require longer time slices . |
| 13 | When an elderly relative is to be cared for , it is important that having some time off together should be top priority for the couple . |
| 14 | Born in Liverpool to a West African father in 1951 , Conteh won ABA , British and Commonwealth titles but was stripped of his world title by the World Boxing Council for failing to go through with a contracted defence in 1977 and failed three times to regain the championship before retiring in 1981 . |
| 15 | And the way she was talking it looked like they were gon they were going to put some more and invest some time , money |
| 16 | But , having said that , as I got older and spent more time with my father I began to learn more about him . |
| 17 | My research indicates a variety of routes to class , trade union and gender consciousness and the probability of interaction between several factors : hardships experienced in a working-class childhood ; changes in household structure , such as taking over the ‘ man 's ’ role of breadwinner ; becoming involved in industrial action ; developing a new awareness of how social life is organised through contact with political or trade union ideologies ; and just growing older and having more time free from actual and ideological family constraints . |
| 18 | I obtained my PhD in 1978 and started full time work on ‘ soft money . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I really admire you , bringing up four from the time the youngest was only five and working full time . |
| 20 | Having suffered a breakdown , she gave up her job in 1907 and spent some time in Sussex . |
| 21 | As channel activity usually occurred in bursts ( Figs 1A and 2A ) , mean open and mean closed times , and open and closed time distribution histograms were obtained by restricting the analyses to individual bursts during 20–30 s of continuous recording . |
| 22 | Alternatively , did the Tethys/Mediterranean , like the Atlantic , open and shut several times ? |
| 23 | The train was slow and stopped several times for no reason we knew of and with no apparent likelihood of continuing . |
| 24 | ‘ The girl was very distressed and took some time to tell us exactly what had happened . |
| 25 | ACT include two players in their squad who are no strangers to Scotland — centre Jim Swan who has returned after playing in the junior teams at Gala , and flanker Mark McInnes , who toured with the Wallabies to Canada and France in 1989 and spent some time with Peebles . |
| 26 | The thought patterns allow me to erm put down what I wanted to talk about , expand on it and at the same time break it down into areas and on the other and spend some time on each area . |
| 27 | ‘ Binge ’ diary Week 1 Binged and vomited four times 2–3 Keeping her diary regularly 4 Returned home and told her family about problems with eating 5 Stopped weighing herself so frequently ; binged and vomited three times 6 Ate breakfast for first time 7 Allowed herself to ask for support from friends 8–9 Binged and vomited once each week 10 Expressed her feelings of sadness in the group for the first time 11–12 Ate three regular meals per day ; binges much smaller 13 A week free from bingeing and vomiting 14 A week free from bingeing and vomiting |
| 28 | He added : ‘ Most that take some time in court average costs of £250,000 . |
| 29 | What essentially what you need to do how to do is if you wan na be able to work Saturdays we need to be able to prove that in fact pound per , per item of post on a Saturday is cheaper than because the productivity in the week will be lower therefore and even at time and a half , the cost of doing an hour 's overtime for the work you get out in the week is , is less productive than doing double time with what you get out on a Saturday . |
| 30 | In a small lounge , polished and dusted five times today by the Imperial 's housemaids , four committee members were awaiting the arrival of the Prince of Wales , Sir Thomas and , oddly , Gwendolen , who had inexplicably not yd arrived . |