Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking a carpet needle or a dentist 's pick he would sit on the stones for hours at a time prising small fossils from particles of rock he instinctively knew concealed them . |
| 2 | Mairi was furious when after a while Luch started to take long to return with the bucket , but it did her no good ; the wee lass often vanished for hours at a time , in spite of the scoldings she got when she returned late . |
| 3 | We soon learned to give animals the right of way in the swamps , sitting for hours at a time in the dugout , watching elephants plod by . |
| 4 | She sat in the dishevelled shabby glamour of her bedroom and stared out of the window for hours at a time . |
| 5 | ‘ The radio set can remain on for hours at a time ; you can enjoy it as background to reading , writing , homework , housework … . |
| 6 | Anyone who wants a portable to carry around and use for hours at a time on batteries , will love the 320SLi as much as I did . |
| 7 | Although many college teachers still have such job titles as lecturer , senior lecturer or reader , few teachers are happy reading aloud to their students for hours at a time . |
| 8 | Their riffs about the current state of their underwear would continue for hours at a time . |
| 9 | She did n't know if Betty knew how long Beuno had been there , so endeavoured to give the impression that she could babble away on the topic of cooking game for hours at a time . |
| 10 | Has a majestic soaring and gliding flight , with wing-tips splayed out and upturned , often remaining on the wing for hours at a time . |
| 11 | Choose 7/8in mats where workers remain for a full shift ; 1/2in mats at work stations used for hours at a time ; 3/8in mats in traffic areas . |
| 12 | It 's gone now , but at the time mentally handicapped patients were locked up in it for hours at a time . |
| 13 | Typically the fisherman is a lone black smudge hunched on his bait-box for hours at a time . |
| 14 | erm I could lecture you for hours at a time on the subject . |
| 15 | His brother Gawain ignored him , gazing at the salt cellar or the window for minutes at a time and stolidly chewing . |
| 16 | This order is consistent with the established relationships between subjects at the time that the scheme was first published ( 1876 ) , but produces some strange collocations for today 's literature . |
| 17 | This time the four definitive gricers ' bibles of the time come in one small , hardbacked ( and thus very easily pocketed ) volume with many pictures and full shed lists ( complete with the names of Loco Superintendents and Chief Mechanical Engineers ? ) which would have been important information for spotters of the time . |
| 18 | Sometimes he was away from home for months at a time . |
| 19 | Deep acting medicines ( Lycopodium , Calc Carb etc. ) can be used several times daily and repeated for months at a time if necessary . |
| 20 | I 'm a social smoker but I can go for months at a time without even thinking about it . |
| 21 | At the time the thought never entered our heads that there could be any doubt about this , and it is certain that the effect on morale throughout the country was tremendous , especially as for months at a time the war news from other parts of the world was usually bad . |
| 22 | They relate experiences of ‘ being without anyone ’ for months at a time — as if my position is like theirs , with only housework to bother me . |
| 23 | Brenda , however , is used to bringing up her three daughters alone for months at a time . |
| 24 | For a weekend or for months at a time . |
| 25 | He virtually commuted between London and Sydney , his Australian birthplace , where he would stay for months at a time with his parents , making award-winning films , before returning to London in his safari suit , sun-bleached and fit . |
| 26 | Even though they may live and sleep above ground for months at a time , they prefer not to be out of distance of some sort of refuge that will serve for a hole . |
| 27 | For me the most dangerous aspect of the job has been not so much the very real dangers in the field as the psychological vertigo of alternating for months at a time between the utter extremes of the planet ; from the film markets of California 's Hollywood Hills , where I rented an A-frame , to the remotest jungles of the East . |
| 28 | The locals find they must leave , while houses in their village remain locked and empty for months at a time . |
| 29 | But quotas set to ensure the sustainability of the resource were widely ignored : Russian and East European factory ships moved in for months at a time , and Spain took the opportunity to develop a host of industries back home — from ship-building to canning — based on the hake resources of Namibia . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's often away , and frequently stays away for months at a time . ’ |