Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within 20 years the instrument will be brown and by the time it is 200 years old it will be virtually black . ’ |
| 2 | But the scent was old and after a time they went on again . |
| 3 | ‘ I also had four days to be nervous and by the time the big day arrived I was all nervoused out . |
| 4 | It 's just started to get dark but by the time it 's just started to get |
| 5 | He sank into the waiting limo unshaven , crumpled , white-faced , nervous , shattered and by the time he got to the posh Beverly Hills Hotel , in need of the complimentary bottle of Scotch a thoughtful management had left in his room . |
| 6 | The line is now extinct but at the time we arrived they had lived in the castle for some five hundred years . |
| 7 | It was very short-lived but at the time it was a bit of a shock . |
| 8 | ‘ It was absolutely freezing and by the time we got the fish to the deeper water the carp sacks were frozen , ’ added Ian who also broke two landing nets during the rescue . |
| 9 | Opened in 1846 this section had been early superseded and closed and in the time of Mr Mester 's childhood comprised only an overgrown formation . |
| 10 | Any change would be gradual and for the time local parties were left with a free choice . |
| 11 | Whilst it is accepted that the total provision for the County , erm five hundred and sixteen hectares about twenty five he per cent above the approved plan provision , the County Council considers this is justified on the basis that it provides the most generous level which can be justified on the information which is available and at a time when changes in the distribution of business use are to say at the least unpredictable . |
| 12 | We can all still bring leather in from our friends in Australia but for reasons that I do n't wholly understand , this is very much dearer than the local er supplies available and for the time being it 's not of interest to the saddlery-makers in Walsall . |
| 13 | The day was extremely hot and by the time Asik reached the river it was already very busy . |
| 14 | This was successful and at the time of Down 's death it could accommodate 200 patients . |
| 15 | No By time you I mean it 's not that far but by the time you get there the car wo n't have a chance to warm up thoroughly . |
| 16 | The boys had local reactions and quickly recovered but his wife 's arm became very inflamed and for a time her condition gave cause for concern . |
| 17 | More recently , he relocated the Schools Canteen from dingy basement to gleaming mezzanine and at the time of his death had nearly completed his greatest coup . |
| 18 | Progress has been patchy but by the time of writing study on the following fields ( often requiring further compulsory elements or specific combinations of fields in addition to the general requirements of the course regulations ) carry agreed professional exemption or recognition for graduates : |
| 19 | You will know that , in your present life , you can meet someone new and within no time at all that person becomes a true friend . |
| 20 | It was almost a year before it was strictly necessary and at the time there were voices advising delay . |
| 21 | It seems to have formed through the successive accretion of continental and island arc fragments ( see Section 3.6 ) from then until the middle Cretaceous and at the time of its collision with the Indian Plate it was probably an area of relatively warm and weak lithosphere . |
| 22 | I know it sounds pathetic but at the time it gave me a bit of a fright . ’ |
| 23 | Er you ca n't imagine this I do n't suppose , but nevertheless it 's true and in a time , the men in the shop they was mass-production , you know what I mean and they wanted this or that or the other , well I had the authority to go down the machine shop and tell them , look here , so and so wants this you do that . |
| 24 | It 's laughable but at the time it was n't laughable but when you think back , this man that I was put on with , he was acting guard foreman . |
| 25 | you are the reason why I left the school , you know , none of the girls are happy by their upper sixth , in the lower sixth you might think it 's alright but by the time |