Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] time a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two species live as adults for only 12–16 days ; in this short time a mate must be found . |
| 2 | One hundred and seventy years have passed since the proclamation of the Hatt-i-Sherif , and in the course of all that time a State like Serbia in Europe should have made a far greater civilisational , cultural and economic leap . |
| 3 | 1 Next time a patient is admitted to your ward for " planned " or " routine " surgery , observe all the things which you think may be a source of anxiety and list them . |
| 4 | The principal weakness of these provisions is that companies ( especially , but not exclusively , private ones ) are deplorably dilatory in delivering returns to the Registrar so that at any one time a majority of companies are in arrear to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 5 | ‘ An unconditional order in writing , addressed by one person* to another , signed by the person giving it , requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay on demand or at a fixed or determinable future time a sum certain in money to , or to the order of , a specified person , or to order ’ . |