Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] in [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many appear to be recent colonists from temperate regions , representing species that have extended their breeding ranges northward or southward in post-glacial times . |
| 2 | Compare that to the South East , where even in recessionary times , turnover of software staff can be as much as 30% a year . |
| 3 | I know a lot more about it , and I do n't think I 've lost more than once or twice in 12 times at Vegas . |
| 4 | Friday is market day and it must be admitted that even in these times of high-speed travel , mini-breaks , and the lure of the larger towns , Combsburgh comes alive . |
| 5 | But traditionally such people would have done , er and perhaps in earlier times you know , er maybe Mrs Thatcher does say some prayers , I do n't know , but maybe prayers would be said . |
| 6 | It was badly scarred by the ill-fated attempt to acquire Leyland Vehicles and Land Rover , and only in recent times has it begun to reverse its image in Britain as little more than a screwdriver assembler of cars . |
| 7 | Opium was probably known in Roman if not in Greek times , and was used to promote sleep as well as to relieve pain . |
| 8 | .. are ways of the earth spirit , not merely secular routes but natural channels of energy , first traced out by the creative gods , followed by the primeval wandering tribes and still in settled times used by religious processions or pilgrims to a shrine . |
| 9 | Another similar purchase was a copy of Sir Robert Sibbald 's A Collection of Several Treatises in Folio , Concerning Scotland , As It Was of Old , and Also in Later Times ( Edinburgh , 1739 ) , which was sold , in 1758 , from the library of Thomas Ruddiman , the grammarian and former Keeper of the Advocates ' Library . |
| 10 | In some places , and increasingly in these times , the whole assembly is taking a larger musical part . |
| 11 | The whole sequence of events lasted only eight seconds , and yet in that time the cuckoo had also managed to lay its own egg . |
| 12 | The Church was much extended in the 13th and 14th Centuries and again in Victorian times . |
| 13 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 14 | All these qualities provided by the academic course are valued by the gate-keepers of the foreign language-teaching profession — PGCE tutors , advisers to L.E.A.s headteachers — but especially in recent times the degree of spoken language fluency is stressed . |
| 15 | In 1944 – 46 de Gaulle confronted the hard reality that a man of character could lead the nation singlehandedly in a moment of supreme crisis but not in normal times . |