Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What renders science distinctive , then , is not so much the instruments that are played , for crude variants of these can be found wherever we look ; nor even the particular tune , for everyone plays brief snatches of this from time to time ; it is rather the sustained and collaborative elaboration of this particular melody in preference to all the others one might play . |
| 2 | You know , I 've had one or , or two of those from time to time . |
| 3 | Average cereal prices were seriously higher after 1760 than they had been in the early eighteenth century so there was less fluctuation around the breadline in the first half of the century , but the relief-dependent population was even so probably not much below 10 per cent in most parishes in most years and capable of rising much above that from time to time in localities affected by short-term unemployment of the kind that manufacturing slumps could bring even to the pre-industrial economy . |
| 4 | Vera would supply us with some from time to time and I know Uncle was partial to it . |
| 5 | The only one of them who appeared in public from time to time was the Conte 's daughter , who was already past what was considered a marriageable age . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Voters do not instinctively turn to Labour in time of trouble . |
| 8 | This was originally discovered in birds , where seed-eaters were seen to switch from one type of seed to another from time to time , regardless of the nutritional similarity of the seeds . |
| 9 | With increasing unemployment and early retirements , the Church will need to do fresh thinking in the area of ministry to those with time on their hands , opening up opportunities to learn new skills and engage in spheres of community service . |