Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [unc] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | The new machines will cost only £50 more than current single-speed VHS models and in the long-play mode give up to eight hours ' playing time , instead of the normal maximum of four hours . |
2 | This would force some leading figures , like Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , to fight for a few minutes ' speaking time from the floor — or keep quiet . |
3 | no at the moment all my friends have , have been married a few years erm next time you come and er |
4 | Each cassette for Europe will run for 60 minutes ; customers in the US and Japan will get 90 minutes ' playing time , However companies hope to extend this to four hours . |
5 | Since monthly courses were introduced towards the end of 1991 , accidents costing more than three days ' lost time have plummeted by 80 per cent . |
6 | ( An irony of the conference was that not one shred of evidence was produced for the central assertion that three years ' full time training in research was essential . ) |
7 | So you had ten minutes ' free time , a type of reward , if you like , for paying attention and getting on with it . |
8 | On the other hand , I sat in my New York hotel room for a good five hours ' Bloomingdale-spending time watching Sex Lies and Videotape , The Fabulous Baker Boys and Sea of Love without so much as moving to the fridge to flex a buttock muscle of my own . |
9 | It was a quick turnaround ; the last leg to Manchester , nearly five hours ' flying time , would be exhausting . |
10 | Allow about fifteen seconds ' looking time . |
11 | But the 16-year-old Morpeth Harrier had already achieved the 3,000 metres intermediate girls ' qualifying time three days earlier , clocking 10 mins 13 secs at the Tyneside Track League , and decided to travel instead to Manchester to watch pop group Eurasure . |
12 | No more than two minutes ' flying time later , we can reconfirm our position from the high ( 200ft ) power lines crossing a main road immediately underneath us . |
13 | I was staying with a Filipino family on Mindanao , one of the southernmost of the 7,000 Philippine islands , two hours ' flying time from Manila , in a place called Dapitan City in the province of Zamboanga del Norte . |
14 | Four time so if someone says what 's a quarter of all the way round you can look at all of these and you can think , well four times ninet four times what would be all the way round ? |
15 | General Alexander and his troops carried out a magnificent fighting retreat and held up the Japanese advance until the rains broke , thus saving four months ' valuable time in which preparations could be made to repel the Japs if they attempted to invade India . |
16 | Philip Calvert , an A-level student at Prior Pursglove Sixth Form College , Guisborough , was two-hundredths of a second inside the senior boys ' qualifying time in the 800 metres , clocking 1 min 54.8 . |