Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you start to discover this one actually does travel through walls , the sound of it does actually does travel through walls , but as I say , it 's only a temporary measure to buy yourself a little bit of time she says . |
| 2 | In that brief fragment of time he smiled down at me . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , in that brief space of time I turned up the flame . |
| 4 | He , too , seemed visibly affected by the brief amount of time he had been able to spend with his brother . |
| 5 | And now that I thought about it , I had vaguely wondered at the ‘ good time ’ I had made on my walk from the cottage , and at the leisurely stretch of time I had had on the island . |
| 6 | For quite long periods of time it went away and he forgot it . |
| 7 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 8 | Therefore property passed to him when after a reasonable length of time he had failed to object . |
| 9 | Within a short period of time I had learnt how to help myself ; the pain gradually began to abate spontaneously , a great relief after nearly three years of constant discomfort . |
| 10 | At least for the short period of time he expected the combat to last . |
| 11 | The only sensible response to this , Neil decided ruefully , was to keep hold of the cane , and continue to threaten the bully with it , and for a very short space of time they circled around one another — neither man , it soon became plain , really wishing to do more than threaten . |
| 12 | One will stay with you all the time watching what he 's doing and the other one goes upstairs , while he 's left alone , and in that short space of time they can actually . |
| 13 | ‘ In that relatively short space of time we have established ourselves as a vital source of providing banking services to local people . |
| 14 | That was until Ronnie McFall came to Shamrock Park and in a short space of time we have won the League two years on the trot , runner-up last season and challenging strongly again this season . |
| 15 | In the short space of time it took him to walk across the room arm-in-arm with Mme de Ratho , he thought he saw … . |
| 16 | Very short space of time it 's gone quite a distance . |
| 17 | Q , W , E , R become C , D , E , F and S , D , F become G , A and B. Slightly awkward to start with but within a very short space of time you perform these operation without looking . |
| 18 | In April 1962 he wrote ‘ Blowin' in the Wind ’ , and within a short space of time he had been adopted as the spokesman of the civil-rights movement . |
| 19 | In a very short space of time she would have her feet under the table and those huge jaws would be munching their way into the breast . |
| 20 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 21 | ‘ So within a short space of time she lost her baby and permanently lost her ability to have another baby with serious and lasting consequences to her health and eventually fatal consequences for her marriage . ’ |
| 22 | The includers are not always merely disinterested advocates of a philosophy , but people who have become so through experience , through the sheer amount of time they spend with members of the excluded social group . |
| 23 | ‘ Is that the normal length of time he goes for ? ’ |
| 24 | Are you saying then that when one 's lapsed for six months or over a given period of time we should actually go out there and remove the signs |
| 25 | The City took a dim view of what it regarded as the inordinate amount of time it took for the group to return a profit there . |