Example sentences of "[adj] time in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Clearly , it is high time in this essay that we did just that ! ) |
| 2 | Students also engage in school observation , make use of the micro-teaching facilities , and spend some additional time in school-based activities as part of practical studies work . |
| 3 | Yet there is a big difference between the forward and backward directions of real time in ordinary life . |
| 4 | ‘ This year there are a lot of students who have not yet got training places — significantly more than at a similar time in previous years , ’ Mr Pritchard said , adding that the Law Society was considering various ways of helping those unable to find a training places with a law firm . |
| 5 | The English do not seem to have taken this too seriously ; the fyrd , or coastal militia , was disbanded and the fleet paid off at the most crucial time in late summer , only to be hastily recalled when Harold Hardrada , the Norwegian king , invaded the north . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's had a pretty rotten time in some ways , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Later , courses and social events help new parents cope with what can be the most exciting yet the most frightening time in most couple 's lives . |
| 8 | Independent film productions have a hard time in this country . |
| 9 | At Westminster they disembarked at King 's Steps , Corbett pulling the hood of his cloak over his head to avoid recognition by any of his colleagues in the Chancery or the Exchequer for he did not want to waste valuable time in idle chatter . |
| 10 | Tasting time in unknown parts of the town |
| 11 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 12 | A week can be an awfully long time in political journalism . |
| 13 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 14 | There were two men apart from the one with the rifle and she heard them quarrelling for a long time in another room . ’ |
| 15 | If you want to live a long , long time in sturdy health you ca n't go wrong in forming the habit of long vigorous walking every day … until it becomes a habit as important to you as eating and sleeping . |
| 16 | What we do have and have had for a long time in this country is an acceptance within our law and an acceptance within our definitions of freedom that there are responsibilities with freedom and those responsibilities in this particular case , we have long accepted the argument in this country , maybe not as much as erm , well more in fact than some of our colleagues abroad and maybe they could learn from us from this , but it is not acceptable to have the freedom to be unnecessarily cruel and in fox hunting we have a sport that is unnecessarily cruel , there are ways in which you can deal with rogue foxes , there are ways in which you can actually ensure that the fox community does not destroy the whole , er farming countryside . |
| 17 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 18 | It came to light that er a great many of the members , a great many of the people who talked about their early experiences reported some sort of abusive experience , either y'know er quite a short one that went on over many many years you know that er if it was some relative or friend of the family they were likely to have been abused for quite a long time in some cases . |
| 19 | We waited a very long time in growing unease . |
| 20 | Charging time in one hour on the DC9100 charger . |
| 21 | Er , it takes me an hour to get there , if I 'm lucky now at roadworks and charging time in one day , is like an hour to patch , then you 're out on to the patch , in between appointments running about because Derby 's quite a big area , er , again if you 've got to cover an appointment in Matlock and you 're in Derby in the morning you 're talking a good forty five minute run to get there . |
| 22 | ‘ We had a tough time in those days , ’ recalled Mrs Jones , ‘ the post war years were no party for anyone , and we were no exception . |
| 23 | Educated at Eton and then sent to Europe to improve himself , he worked for a short time in various jobs in ‘ the city ’ before becoming an ADC to the Governor of Australia . |
| 24 | The frequency is chosen to make sure that the core reaches saturation at each alteration , but does not spend any more than a short time in this condition so as to maximise the final output signal ; the circuit should produce as many saturation signals as possible . |
| 25 | If you are w going to work part time or full time in most cases there would be a separate coding for it , in this particular example it 's an employment where they do n't operate pay as you earn , i if , use my old phrase no longer applicable I suppose , a corner shop . |
| 26 | ( Tune : ‘ The Lady is a Tramp ’ , but becomes punk double time in second verse ) |
| 27 | The development of these skills is dependent on the young animal spending a considerable time in normal relationships with its own kind . |
| 28 | Austen Chamberlain was equally enthusiastic at the time , but later put the occasion into somewhat more critical perspective by saying that it was the only time in fourteen years that he had ever known Baldwin to influence a Cabinet decision . |
| 29 | Last night , while sitting doing my ration of embroidery , I thought of what we had been talking about — the paying guest , and have come to the conclusion that you ought not to undertake such a responsibility as you have had such a difficult time in one way and another with sickness and trouble . |
| 30 | Most reports are based on comments from random , briefly assembled groups , Simons spent time in west-country day centres and self-advocacy groups , carefully researching user and staff views . |