Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] in [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was away from Valencia for a total of nine months and in that time two dramatic events took place . |
| 2 | He was out for 18 months and in that time , he believes standards declined . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They were away from home for six weeks and in that time covered thousands of miles , made over forty flights , attended a multitude of receptions , galas and banquets and shook more hands in walkabouts than could ever be counted . |
| 5 | Mauchline Ware , as it is known , irrespective of where it was made , was produced for over 100 years and in that time millions of items must have been manufactured and distributed around the world . |
| 6 | I am reminded of all this by a correspondent who tells me that she has had a pear tree ‘ for about 30 years and in that time , have only once had good fruit ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | Now of course I 'm not supposed to admit to these things , being a professional , bo b before I do admit it them as I am going to I have to say that er on an average year er year we do about one thousand five hundred jobs and in that time there will probably be about three or four claimable accidents that we 'll have . |