Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It estimates that in that time it cut its carbon dioxide emissions by more than 20 per cent . |
| 2 | On the other hand , the mere fact that in that time she has overtaken it most one of some 20 countries that outranked her in per capita terms is enough to establish that her record is less than spectacular . |
| 3 | I know what that man owes to Harry , and what to me , and I have kept the account , and in good time I shall take what is due . |
| 4 | Meantime , the Brothers exercised , recited litanies , incanted the familiar battle-prayers , meditated , now and then duelled , tested themselves upon algometric pain-meters … and in spare time they scrimshandered the bones of the dead . |
| 5 | right , well that 's the sort of things that I think we want to find out and in slower time I was actually going to ring the yeah at Telford and say speak to me about this and maybe pop in one morning on my way into town and just say this is the idea how does it grab you and if they say you 're not on fine , but it 's things like that that I think we want to explore . |
| 6 | Actually , we were probably more technical than we are now , 'cos we had a year 's break between the two bands and in that time we lost all our talent , so we had to start again . |
| 7 | These continuous blasts may last for several hours , and in that time they eject large volumes of ash , which is always new magmatic material , rather than shattered bits and pieces of old rock . |
| 8 | And in that time I really only ever had one proper job and that was for two weeks . |
| 9 | I lasted eighteen months before packing it in , and in that time I saw a lot of disappointed people . |
| 10 | We 've spent twenty-four hours together and in that time I 've been bitten by bugs in a hooker 's bed , tied up a guy with no legs and stolen his wheelchair , stayed cooped up in a train for twelve hours with an attractive man and behaved like a virgin . |
| 11 | And in that time I became very close to the bunch of desperadoes I 'd first flown out with . |
| 12 | We flew for an hour and in that time I completed a reel of film in my camera . |
| 13 | I was with him constantly for a whole year and in that time I never saw him with anyone , man or woman . |
| 14 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 15 | It 's now ten years since he set up Some Bizzare , and in that time he has enticed Matt Johnson , You 've Got Foetus On Your Breath , Psychic TV , Einstuerzende Neubauten and Berlin-born cabaret singer Anges Bernelle into his entourage . |
| 16 | It is nineteen months since Richard Ryder was appointed Government Chief Whip and in that time he has risen to become John Major 's right-hand man . |
| 17 | The craft has been his hobby for the past years , and in that time he has seen it grow immensely in popularity . |
| 18 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |
| 19 | Each exercise only lasts 15 seconds , and in that time you must complete as many repetitions as possible . |
| 20 | And in that time you were in receipt of benefit were you ? |
| 21 | And in that time you see , the steamer did n't come so often . |
| 22 | twenty , fifteen , whatever years , whatever years , and in that time you 've got to be pretty sure that you can do that |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | JOAN Bassett has been the conductor of the Hadley Court Singers for over eight years and in that time she has welded this group of 45 singers based at Haddington into a flexible corporate whole motivated at all times by her own perceptive musicianship . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Career breaks would enable women to choose to take five , six or seven years out to have their families but in that time they would be kept in touch , ’ said Miss Armstrong . |
| 27 | It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’ |
| 28 | Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second . |
| 29 | The whole performance had taken no more than a minute , but in that time he 'd succeeded in turning the Chamber 's table into a fish-market gutter . |
| 30 | But in that time he was credited with the discovery of three rarities the spring gentian , the mountain avens and the bog orchid , which was then lost again and only recently rediscovered . |