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

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1 While some detectors may run as normal for some time on cheap batteries , in other cases battery life will be ridiculously short leading the operator to conclude that a detector malfunction has occurred .
2 She grimaced as her voice , unused for some time by the sound of it , came out in hoarse , rusty spurts .
3 Right now , the Howards are just grateful for some time to themselves .
4 As usual for this time in the evening , it 's very very hectic indeed there .
5 Memorial recorded a splendid 1-1 extra time home draw with Almithak , but Melling Vics lost 2-1 against Temple Inn and Alt Park United lost 32 after extra time against Seddons .
6 We 'd have killed for an outcome like this at any time since 1975 .
7 Practically all the interviewees had experienced this at some time during their drug career .
8 As I am sure that my hon. Friend is aware , the reason for that is that the demand for gas oil , which is equivalent to diesel , is high at this time of the year because it is used for heating .
9 I accept that , at present , they are high — only slightly below unleaded petrol prices — but , as the hon. Gentleman knows , that is because the demand for gas oil , which is equivalent to diesel , is high at this time of year as it is used for heating and high demand tends to push up prices .
10 He says that the coal is for domestic use , and is being used to suppliment british supplies because demand is high at this time of year .
11 March is often a windy month and because the winds are unsteady at this time of year there is always a chance of very changeable weather from day to day .
12 After dinner , it being light at that time until midnight , we took our friend into the hotel garden and , for possible use in the film , recorded him shouting German wheel and engine-room orders such as would have been used by Prien during the mission .
13 Er instead of buying ready-made er dresses I suppose which wer became er very popular at one time with the Indian girls and the Pakistani girls .
14 The wicker industry began with the manufacture of copies of cane furniture — popular at that time in Germany and Britain — for the British families , and then for the hotels in Funchal .
15 Sunglasses would be popular at this time of year too . ’
16 companies whose equity share capital has been subject to a marketing arrangement as described in Section 163(2) ( b ) of the Companies Act 1985 at any time during the 10 years prior to the relevant date ( e.g. companies whose shares have been traded on the USM or used to be traded on the 3rd Market ) ;
17 This right is exercisable at any time before 1st March 1992 at a price of 50p per share .
18 An option has been granted and is still outstanding to a director in respect of 5,000 ordinary shares of 25p each in A. Layout Plc exercisable at any time before 1st March 1992 , at a price of 50p per share .
19 She had been expecting the pool to be almost empty at that time of day and was surprised to see that there were about a dozen or so people in the water .
20 The park 's empty at this time of day before the kids are let out of school .
21 Even from the kerb in the gloom the guard 's shrugs and humorously uplifted eyes are visible as he declines to telephone the duty officer , ring a British Committee office empty at this time of night , break the sacred sleep of anyone else on the telephone list .
22 The top of the hill was empty at this time of day .
23 It can be pretty horrendous at this time of the evening . ’
24 The Germans were more interested at that time in hunting Communists , but later came the Gestapo and then things became much more dangerous .
25 So in , parcel or parcels , going from one address to another at one time in one load that is a consignment .
26 At a time when over one third of the economically active population aged under 25 have been unemployed at some time in the last 12 months , the prospects of reaching 80 per cent owner-occupation without drastic policy changes seem dim ( Social Trends 15 , Table 4.26 ) .
27 Said well I think it 's quite warm for this time of year December like .
28 It is highly evocative of that time in everyone 's life when a mortgage meant nothing , music was all and your friends could be as mental as barking hens .
29 The Financial Statement 's key aim is to save much of that time by use of an agreed system in which creditors have trust and confidence .
30 They can minimize uncertainty about the future by converting savings ( possibly from current income ) into a stream of income payable at some time in the future .
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