Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The identity of the price leader had changed from time to time with no obvious pattern . |
| 2 | If geology suggested that the earth 's climate had changed through time , it would make sense to accept that the Creator would design different species for each of the successive geological periods . |
| 3 | Even though that share seemed to fall over time , as claims were settled , the $170m insurers spent in such unproductive ways in 1989 alone would have paid for the treatment of 15 sites . |
| 4 | The phone continued to ring from time to time ; messengers continued to call . |
| 5 | The Marshal had arrived in time , as he had promised , to see Cipolla delivered to the court and taken upstairs , chained between two other prisoners whose appeals were to be heard that morning . |
| 6 | They found that futures tended to be overpriced , that the average size of the mispricing tended to fall over time , and that the absolute size of the mispricing declined as maturity approached and increased as the dividend yield increased . |
| 7 | The direction of the mispricing tended to persist over time , while the absolute value of the proportionate mispricing declined as delivery approached . |
| 8 | The idea of the continuity of sites over the generations is easier to accept for , if markers of some sort had been laid down , they might well have survived , even if their form had changed over time . |
| 9 | At first their mother 's sister had come from time to time but she and Moran had quarrelled . |
| 10 | He jettisoned his parachute but died after his reserve chute failed to open in time . |
| 11 | The band hit their instruments harder and harder and the congregation started to stamp in time . |