Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] from the time " in BNC.

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1 He worked he worked all his time on the island apart from the time he was in the army .
2 The carrier is liable for the total of partial loss of the goods and for damage thereto from the time of taking over the goods and the time of delivery .
3 But essentially , the time in which they were built is a world apart from the time we live in .
4 It 's true that that is a common feature really from the time of for the last five hundred million years , from the time of the earliest fish to ourselves and to the birds and everybody else , but it 's like that not because there is some kind of profound law of form , which says that 's the kind of organism which is in permitted by the laws of development to arise , erm I mean the law form would be something like erm a law of physics which says that if objects move round the sun they 're going to do so in ellipses with the sun at one focus .
5 Its unique design was never put to the test in defending against attack ; instead it was used as a prison almost from the time it was built .
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