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

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1	His major work , however , which became known as The Scale of Perfection was extremely popular in his own time .
2	There had to be when they were working together , worshipping tripping over one another in their free time , perhaps even sharing a house .
3	To the first readers of Middlemarch , however , an elaboration of her plans might have seemed redundant , for if her ambitions were unusual in her own time , they were routine responsibilities by the 1870s .
4	It may be helpful to use the structure of Psalm 95 in your quiet time as a pattern for half an hour to an hour or more of worship each day for a while .
5	Toynbee Hall was designed as a residential settlement to be inhabited by young university graduates , who were to work among the poor in their spare time — offering art , music and education as well as material help and advice — with the aim of achieving mutual knowledge and respect between the classes .
6	I can remember doing that in my own time .
7	I think it would be better — and we would both find it easier — if you looked at those in your own time ?
8	In my spare in my spare time I 'd like to be , like to do dancing and swimming .
9	Whereas-it was common in their own time for the Teddy Boys to be contrasted with a nostalgically remembered state of pre-existing harmony ‘ twenty years ago ’ or ‘ before the war ’ , given the real horror which greeted their arrival we can perhaps only marvel at the way in which the nostalgic trick of amnesia can now work in the Teds ' favour .
10	It seems clear then that life , at least as we know it , can exist only in regions of space-time in which one time and three space dimensions are not curled up small .
11	Most other staff keep equally active in their spare time , tempted by the climate , the wealth of local facilities and the ease of reaching desirable spots like the Alps , Lake Como and the Ligurian coast .

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