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

No	Sentence
1	There would n't be an I R A only for internment the last time .
2	The 23 prospective presidential candidates who had contested the discredited primaries would not be allowed to run for president the next time , and all were banned from political activity for the remainder of the transitional period .
3	‘ Just for once , for p'raps the only time in your life , take a bit of advice from your elders and betters . ’
4	During practice the best time logged was twenty minutes .
5	This is by no means the first time that national security has been raised as a defence in legal proceedings against the Crown .
6	It is by no means the first time that there has been unacceptable , totally unsporting behaviour along such lines in that part of the world .
7	‘ Faber would not be for sale even at the right price , ’ commented Matthew Evans a touch wearily — this being by no means the first time he has had to deny such rumours .
8	She was n't risking that kind of insanity a second time .
9	Of course the more time available the better .
10	In 1976 , despite coverage a hundred times greater than can be achieved by conventional flash photography ( which is limited by back scatter ) , no results were achieved in three months of work .
11	I fell madly in love with this area of Scotland the first time I set eyes on it , and subsequently crawled all over it for years , marvelling at how many caves Bonnie Prince Charlie managed to occupy in his escape from the Redcoats .
12	He was from and he 'd been out of work a long time .
13	Husameddin is even more specific , writing that Molla Fenari was , on his return , given his old professorship and [ then ( ? ) ] made kadi of Bursa a second time when Molla Yegan Mehmed Celebi ( Molla Yegan ) retired from the post in 818/1415–16 .
14	Cooped up in the house like that — stinks of babies the whole time .
15	In the early history of Rome the only times recognized in the daylight period were sunrise , midday , and sunset .
16	Nick , do you remember what I told you about Oliver a long time ago ?
17	Peter Shillinglaw , secretary of New Brighton Lifeboat which had to go into action a few times , said : ‘ I can not help but think the organisers of this race have been very , very lucky over the years . ’
18	It even took us into Cambridge a few times , but that was pushing it a bit — and once or twice we really had to .
19	Of course , Dorcas thought , as a scientist and rational thinking nome I know we were n't really intended to live under floorboards the whole time .
20	My friend Kevin , muscleman and minicab driver , says the lads would be out rioting for Willy now if it was n't tipping down with rain the whole time .
21	Yeah , I went out with Shelley , with Warren a few times read read yeah ?
22	He looked at her doubtfully , as troubled at leaving her with the distressed child as Edna had been at leaving Liza with Celia a short time before .
23	With CMAC the waiting time is n't that long either . ’
24	He was diverted during coffee by a thumb nail sketch of that fruitless expedition , but by the time the sommelier had visited the table with Cognac a second time , he was back to the great danger of ennui in the BEF , and 2nd Grenadiers ’ seven months in France spent cultivating a defensive mentality which could well be disastrous if hostilities ever broke out .
25	At that , I was silent with mistrust a long time .
26	‘ I have worked with Paul a few times .
27	The look on Martin Bean 's face stayed with Nick a long time .
28	Then he said quickly , for the first time sounding awkward , " You have been with Jasper a long time , have n't you ? "
29	If for example the full time officers er negotiated with you know , for a district rate , erm Brothers and , and , and er er or whoever would concede that district rate .
30	In addition a coarser time scale of LDO occurrence exists ( Fig. 1 ) which may be related to intervals of major global ocean-atmosphere reorganization .