Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of commissioning artists to decorate ceramics in their own individual styles was a tradition first established in the 1770s when Josiah Wedgwood employed the services of noted artists of the time . |
| 2 | He checked his watch ; fifty-five minutes from the time he had replaced the phone in Mr Patel 's fruit store . |
| 3 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 4 | Political maps of the time show how complex the situation really was when Rodrigo began to exercise an influence . |
| 5 | It 's best to try to memorise all this in small sections — say , six to eight notes at a time — until you can play each complete scale pattern ascending and descending in thirds in time with a metronome . |
| 6 | Harbour commissions , like so many other improving economic institutions of the time enabled by act of parliament , undertook a steady upgrading and extension . |
| 7 | Ministers could borrow up to fifty books at a time . |
| 8 | For the dominant , there may be a more flexible perimeter , depending upon the political tactics of the time . |
| 9 | The Glass-Steagall Act and the McFadden Act prevented banks from operating in more than a few states at a time , and also restricted their scope for involvement in the securities markets and other financial services — areas where their international competitors already had wide powers . |
| 10 | The company 's infiltration of the UK market was accelerated by the migration of a variety of British musicians to the infamous German clubs of the time , where they would perform rock'n'roll covers for audiences consisting largely of US Forces personnel . |
| 11 | If you take our recommended holiday insurance with the Eagle Star group and your baggage is not delivered within 12 hours from the time of arrival at your holiday destination due to delay or misdirection in delivery , you are covered up to £100 for essential purchases . |
| 12 | In the event of the Insured Person being deprived of baggage for at least 12 hours from the time of arrival at holiday destination due to delay or misdirection in delivery , the Norwich Union will pay to the Insured Person an amount of up to £75 for emergency purchase of essential items of clothing and requisites subject to certification of such delay , misdirection and expenditure by the HCI Representative . |
| 13 | The apparatus required for imprinting , and then for measuring the efficacy of the imprinting response , was large and elaborate ; it was impossible to train more than a few birds at a time . |
| 14 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 15 | Now , for just a few minutes at a time , focus on this image — and stir in desire . |
| 16 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 17 | These played for only a few minutes at a time . |
| 18 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 19 | All she knew was that she was cold and hungry and thirsty , that she had not slept for more than few minutes at a time and that all her thoughts were with Tristram . |
| 20 | A breathless , pervasive sense of heat possessed her body at every return of the memory and she was unable to remain settled and at ease in her seat for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 21 | He 'll cry long and hard , and though you can soothe him for a few minutes at a time , hours can pass without you ever really silencing the cries . |
| 22 | There was no single incident that Loretta could pinpoint as the cause , merely a series of minor hold-ups ; and Bridget had mislaid her car keys , causing them to set off a few minutes after the time they had agreed . |
| 23 | The engine was recorded as having a total time of 302.30 hours at the time of the accident . |
| 24 | Approximately half a century later , Irenaeus , Bishop of Lyons , issued his violent and dogmatic attack on the prevalent heresies of the time , Adversus haereses . |
| 25 | Steven Osbourne , 30 , used three lines nearly every day for six months — sometimes for 22 hours at a time — to ring the Wheel of Fortune . |
| 26 | The two areas did differ in the level of statutory service provision ; in Ipswich , home help input was available only two or three days a week for up to one and a half hours at a time , and a financial assessment and payment for home help had recently been introduced . |
| 27 | Visitors are also transported back to 1905 and the ‘ International Tramway and Light Railway ’ trade show which was held in that year to show the range of equipment on offer to operators and would-be operators at a time when the electric tramcar was looked upon as the wonder of the age . |
| 28 | Hearing people are members of the dominant culture , who usually wish to preserve their hearing status and whose length of stay among deaf people is often no more than a few hours at a time . |
| 29 | ‘ The barrow now belongs to you , so never let it or the pitch out of your sight for more than a few hours at a time . ’ |
| 30 | You 're sure to spend a good few hours at the time playing this fun sports sim — so do n't for get the suntan oil ! |