Example sentences of "[prep] [det] time it [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | They had been in the outback for four months , and during that time it had become clear to Gould that his projected trips to New Zealand , Moreton Bay , and Norfolk Island were unnecessary . |
2 | During that time it has let us down just once , stranding the deputy editor Michael Harvey in Hammersmith with a broken clutch cable . |
3 | During that time it has had numerous facelifts , and in what must surely be the last of its nine lives , the Big Cat has had another . |
4 | Last year at about this time it produced the admirable Victorian Newcastle painter Ralph Hedley ; this winter it is showing in ‘ A Romance with the North East ’ Rober and Isa ( Thompson ) Jobling , who lived and worked there until the 1920s producing powerful and poetic images of its countryside coast and people . |
5 | During this time it grew dark , the darkness seeming to rise from the river to make it one with the sky . |
6 | During this time it travels only five times its own length , and the widely spaced propellers allow it to turn in its own length at low speed . |
7 | During this time it had become clear to him that , to use his phrase , ‘ the Holy Spirit had separated ’ him to the Vineyard movement which is led by John Wimber . |
8 | During this time it has donated more than £600,000 to over 2500 local groups , helping the disabled , under fives , elderly and youth groups with a wide range of special projects , or improving their facilities . |
9 | After independence 200,000 Europeans fled the city and for some time it appeared to be uninhabited , a city decimated by plague . |
10 | For some time it has been suspected that these voltages affect aquarium fish , causing stress and possibly disease . |
11 | For some time it has been evident that all I am to you is a vessel to receive your seed . |
12 | For some time it has had career breaks to help women ( and occasionally men ) with family needs and he says it has been successful . |
13 | For some time it stood as the seventh ‘ port ’ in the kingdom , despite the fact that its quays were some distance away ; its merchants had exclusive rights over trade in much of western Sussex for most of the later middle ages . |
14 | For some time it seems I 've been talking to myself . |
15 | Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second . |
16 | It estimates that in that time it cut its carbon dioxide emissions by more than 20 per cent . |
17 | The river has been cutting downwards for five million years and more , and in that time it has laid bare rocks spanning half of the earth 's history . |
18 | In that time it has awarded almost 30,000 at various levels , while staff have published over 12,000 books or research articles , and given almost 10,000 papers at conferences . |
19 | In that time it has more than doubled in value . |
20 | In this time it became clear that the military and state security forces were not all solidly behind the coup , especially in the face of popular resistance , with Russian Federation ( RSFSR ) President Boris Yeltsin setting himself at the head of protesters apparently willing to fight for the new freedoms brought about by the reforms of perestroika . |
21 | In this time it seems that all other areas of the Lakes have had a new guide , and some of them two . |
22 | A primitive shading is found on a few vases of the generation before , by the Brygos Painter for instance to indicate the roundness of shields ; and in this time it appears , very sparingly , both in red-figure and on another class of Attic vase which we have not yet considered , those with a white slip . |
23 | Now it is celebrating its 18th year with Citalia and over that time it has consistently been a most popular resort hotel . |
24 | Michael Manser sold Castle Mill soon after its conversion was complete and since that time it has had two further owners , the first of whom installed a lift linking the ground-floor entrance hall with the first-floor dining-room , the generous volume of which has been somewhat reduced by the intrusion of the lift shaft into its south-west corner . |
25 | Since that time it has been explored in chemical systems with further mathematics and also experimentally . |
26 | Since that time it has had a somewhat chequered history , at certain times being in favour and at others being disapproved of most heartily . |
27 | Prior to this time it had to travel in cask and the resultant ‘ sparkling ’ wine must have been a sorry product , hardly an advertisement for its quality and reputation . |
28 | At that time it had two units located in Wilmslow and Knutsford . |
29 | At that time it had commanded fine views : south all the way to the river ; north and west over the lush pastures of the region towards the tiny village of Hampstead . |
30 | At that time it had n't made up its mind whether it was going to deliver an immediate response to Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparcstation 10 announcement — and ship systems later on in the year — or make a big splash in the Autumn with deliveries pretty much straight after . |