Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] time [pers pn] " in BNC.

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31 At least for the short period of time he expected the combat to last .
32 At this very moment in time we are on the verge of having video telephones through which users will be able to see as well as talk to the person at the other end .
33 It needs to be done but do you know what I mean , if you do n't your important things on time they become urgent
34 The only sensible response to this , Neil decided ruefully , was to keep hold of the cane , and continue to threaten the bully with it , and for a very short space of time they circled around one another — neither man , it soon became plain , really wishing to do more than threaten .
35 One will stay with you all the time watching what he 's doing and the other one goes upstairs , while he 's left alone , and in that short space of time they can actually .
36 ‘ In that relatively short space of time we have established ourselves as a vital source of providing banking services to local people .
37 That was until Ronnie McFall came to Shamrock Park and in a short space of time we have won the League two years on the trot , runner-up last season and challenging strongly again this season .
38 In the short space of time it took him to walk across the room arm-in-arm with Mme de Ratho , he thought he saw … .
39 Very short space of time it 's gone quite a distance .
40 Q , W , E , R become C , D , E , F and S , D , F become G , A and B. Slightly awkward to start with but within a very short space of time you perform these operation without looking .
41 In April 1962 he wrote ‘ Blowin' in the Wind ’ , and within a short space of time he had been adopted as the spokesman of the civil-rights movement .
42 In a very short space of time she would have her feet under the table and those huge jaws would be munching their way into the breast .
43 In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries .
44 ‘ So within a short space of time she lost her baby and permanently lost her ability to have another baby with serious and lasting consequences to her health and eventually fatal consequences for her marriage . ’
45 In that space of time you 're going to build up hatred .
46 The includers are not always merely disinterested advocates of a philosophy , but people who have become so through experience , through the sheer amount of time they spend with members of the excluded social group .
47 I mean , I 'd had the feeling before , a bit , the first couple of times I went up on the End , it was that much closer to the spindle .
48 And erm first couple of times I kind of did n't respond , and the next few times I was literally flinching
49 First couple of times it was very quick .
50 The first couple of times she 'd arrived at a rendezvous and then lost her nerve , backing out before anyone could approach her ; but then she 'd tried getting herself a little drunk beforehand , and from then on the doors were flung open and she was away .
51 ‘ Is that the normal length of time he goes for ? ’
52 The thing with th , with getting there at two for the gate right , because you can go in and get seats , for that amount of time you want a seat .
53 BRIAN HALL : ‘ At that particular moment in time we have a manager that has got himself into the semi-final of the FA Cup , he 's got the opportunity of reaching Wembley , he 's had a difficult time in the League , it 's been a traumatic season okay , then he 's told he needs triple by-pass surgery at the age of 39 .
54 As far as I 'm concerned at this particular moment in time you 're both those things .
55 At particular market in time whilst we agree as the board that we should employ someone and we intend to employ someone we just think at this particular moment in time it is very difficult for us to actually raise that sort of money on a regular basis .
56 This plan should be regularly updated as the design evolves so that at any moment in time it represents the best forecast of the final cost of the project .
57 Having considered possible explanations for some of the major inter-country differences between the levels of union organisation at a particular point in time it is also useful to examine the related question of the factors which help to explain the year-to-year growth and fluctuations in union membership over the course of time .
58 Are you saying then that when one 's lapsed for six months or over a given period of time we should actually go out there and remove the signs
59 The one that has n't been in fact to employ somebody particularly perhaps to go out the market theatre but this particular mark in time it 's been very difficult for a theatre to actually find twenty thousand this financial year in fact we had to find seventy thousand pound cuts , that was a very difficult exercise so the answer to your question is we accept that recommendation and as soon as the finance is available we intend to employ somebody to take on that task .
60 In the same space of time she had married , embarked on a new and totally alien job , had a baby , celebrated her twenty-first birthday , and then had a second child — all momentous events in anyone 's life , without the other pressures she was having to cope with .
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