Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of time they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Most have bodies with a skin so soft , thin and permeable that if they are exposed to direct sunshine for any length of time they dry out and die . |