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

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1 If nurses were as careful with time as they tend to be with money , their professional effectiveness would take a meteoric rise ’ .
2 But if , if we er so , so we could actually produ you know , plot this over time because we 've , I hope we 'd have more than one er weekly programme .
3 ‘ I 'm so pinched for time that I race around grabbing the first thing I see . ’
4 And the less of time that it took , the better .
5 This is not to deny that the ending of a marriage through death , and through divorce , are in many ways very different experiences , nor that they may be handled differently in families , but the point here is that the idea that kin groups used to be much more stable over time than they are today has to be modified by historical evidence .
6 The environment that gave us opportunity was so dissimilar from that of the present as to seem more remote in time than it is .
7 It lacks the personal touch it lacks the personal touch which is why you never send your people letters saying you 're fired or you know lost a job you always talk to them and it can be more expensive in terms of materials you use it 's it is very very expensive on mat materials and cheap on time but it 's a personal relationships that 's the first thing okay that 'll do so when do we use it ?
8 ‘ But they always arrived dead on time so we never got on , ’ said Mr Kelly .
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