Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ He 's often away , and frequently stays away for months at a time . ’ |
| 32 | He had been a mining engineer and away for months at a time . |
| 33 | When the house was finished , he hid himself away for months at a time , with only a few good friends and his beloved books and garden . |
| 34 | During the First World War , Turkish bureaucracy and a locust plague produced a famine in Lebanon of such proportions that an American woman resident in Beirut was moved to describe for readers of The Times how she : |
| 35 | He was lost for words at the time , and had to apologise and thank the donors later in private . |
| 36 | There are several methods of extending our rule to cope with this problem , all of which are essentially ways of considering programs restricted so that we only need worry about a finite set of values at a time . |
| 37 | To do so requires a comparison of the market-makers actual portfolio of investments at the time of the disclosure of the inside information , with the portfolio he could have had in the absence of the inside trade . |
| 38 | Miss C 's mother has never been told of the attack , because she was undergoing a series of operations at the time . |
| 39 | Questioned by the procurator-fiscal , Andrew Normand , British Rail 's director of operations at the time , Terence Worrall , admitted that had the sheriff 's deliberations been fully taken into account , additional safety procedures would have been introduced which would have prevented the Newton disaster . |
| 40 | Questioned by the procurator-fiscal , Andrew Normand , British Rail 's director of operations at the time , Terence Worrall , admitted that had the sheriff 's deliberations been fully taken into account , additional safety procedures would have been introduced which would have prevented the Newton accident . |
| 41 | President Guillermo Endara ended on March 13 a 13-day hunger strike which he had reportedly undertaken in solidarity with the most needy of Panamanians at a time of severe economic crisis . |
| 42 | This added a couple of minutes to the time it took . |
| 43 | The bitterness of war put an end to the beautifying of houses for a time . |
| 44 | But his co-accused , Robert Henry ( 24 ) , of Rathmore Drive , Rathcoole , denies murdering Mr McTasney and possession of firearms at the time of the shooting . |
| 45 | ‘ I do n't know if it 's of any help but — er — I made a couple of notes at the time . |
| 46 | The diagnosis of gonorrhoea in man can thus be confirmed in the majority of cases within the time it takes to stain and examine a slide of urethral discharge from the penis — a matter of some fifteen or twenty minutes . |
| 47 | Then they ( the police ) would lock me up for a couple of hours at a time but I did n't get charged until I was 15 . ’ |
| 48 | From the Cape comes wool , skins , fruit etc. etc. , while from France we often get 3,000 sacks of chestnuts at a time . |
| 49 | They were constrained by s I mean like what they wanted to do was constrained by the practical sort of necessities of the time and even if they had wanted to have a more vigorous policy of land reform |
| 50 | As with chimneys , so with synapses ; if they are constructed — or even reconstructed — during learning , one might expect a brief increase in the rate of synthesis of proteins over the time when an animal was being trained and memory was being formed . |
| 51 | Young children have great difficulty in handling more than one set of variables at a time , so there is a need for a fair degree of simplification . |
| 52 | So I started tracing back the roots , like a lot of kids at the time . |
| 53 | I have one pair of shoes at a time , and I wear them out pretty quick because I 'm doing all the canvassing for our lot . |
| 54 | Both MV and PT measure the total value of transactions during the time period and so must be identical . |
| 55 | Part of the experiment was to hold a couple of quizzes at the time of year when we might expect problems with speakers and audience having to travel in bad weather . |
| 56 | If this extraordinary statement involved a blindness to reality , it provided no warning of the storm of anger and abuse which my series of articles in The Times was to generate among Israelis and their supporters in Britain . |
| 57 | In a series of articles in The Times to celebrate Mrs Thatcher 's ten years as leader ( 11 , 12 , and 13 February 1985 ) he wrote that she had inherited ‘ forty years of muddled policy ’ . |
| 58 | He staged a counter-attack which brought him back into power in 1769 , but at the price of a financial disaster from which he never recovered ; money was borrowed to buy shares with which to create votes for the election of directors at a time when the value of the Company 's stock collapsed . |
| 59 | The actors themselves are generally keen to help , both in person and through the mouths of officials at the time , and ( often telling a rather different tale ) in tranquil autobiographies afterwards . |
| 60 | They 're transplanting their cottage garden a handful of plants at a time from their present home to the new house they 'll be moving to in November . |