Example sentences of "[noun sg] in the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When the Department of Health at the turn of the year invited bids for the money available nationally we could put in a very detailed bid in the tight time scale . ’ |
| 2 | He had put on weight in the short time since going to Mrs Gracie 's ; he was plump . |
| 3 | This policy has been international in scope , as was presaged by LIFFE 's early attempt to use its niche in the European time zone to create a market in US T-bond futures , for which the CBoT had established the world 's most successful futures contract in the US time zone . |
| 4 | It occurred to Thomas as he listened to her that Sara had not changed a whit in the whole time they had been married . |
| 5 | If you have not finished your first choice question in the allotted time , stop writing and leave sufficient space to finish it later . |
| 6 | Mr. Peter Walker : It is difficult to answer such a question in the short time available for a parliamentary answer . |
| 7 | You ca n't possibly do this job , ’ but his cases were always brought to a conclusion in the minimum time and , more importantly , with the minimum expense . |
| 8 | So the project was dropped , the local community in the intervening time had er , picked the p the project up if you like , to provide a community er , resource in the low town area of Bridgenorth . |
| 9 | ‘ I have n't spoken more than half a dozen words to your wife in the whole time you and I have been working together , ’ protested Matt . |
| 10 | It has taken him just five and a half years to make his mark in the big time . |
| 11 | So many , in fact , that even with our road hungry Citroën we could n't possibly have sampled the complete menu in the available time . |
| 12 | So many , in fact , that even with our road hungry Citroën we could n't possibly have sampled the complete menu in the available time . |
| 13 | Julia , who had come to understand a little of Allegra Wallington 's character in the short time they had spent together , was as anxious as David to prevent that happening . |
| 14 | It gives me the opportunity to see God in young people and watch them develop in their faith in the short time that they are here . |
| 15 | If the defendant in a default action does submit a defence in the prescribed time , the district judge fixes a date for the preliminary hearing , and the action proceeds in the same way as a fixed date action . |
| 16 | Then when you come to tell your story in the correct time sequence , with any luck the fact that X was there will not be apparent . |
| 17 | Now what I 'd like to do this afternoon in the short time that we have is to outline some of the ways in which the British government is helping to meet the challenges of under development . |
| 18 | The second distinction between the results here and those of Kreps and Wilson is the behaviour of play in the infinite time horizon case . |
| 19 | One thing she 'd learned from Ace in the short time they 'd been together was to be quick on her feet . |
| 20 | and what of the man who 's got to mastermind Swindon 's first season in the big time … many only know John Gorman as Hoddle 's assistant … so who is he … what 's he about … |
| 21 | It did have ethical , social and political implications even for life in the present time , but it could not be reduced to these : rather it set the present in the light of God 's future . |
| 22 | Accepted procedural rules appear to be that the person selected must have the support of a majority in the House of Commons ( if need be , after a new general election ) , and that the Monarch must ‘ secure the strongest Government in the minimum time ’ while still observing the need for public impartiality . |
| 23 | The social worker tried to mediate without success in the available time . |
| 24 | Yet this you would expect ; it is one of the hallmarks of the dominant culture , after all , that it is about thirty to fifty years behind what is actually occurring in the world in the present time . |
| 25 | This entailed replacing the safety pin in the ten-minute time pencil and extracting the detonator , which he managed with only seconds to spare . |
| 26 | It happens erm I 've handled a case myself where shares were valued at a particular amount on the death and er in due course they needed to be sold as part of the administration unfortunately they 'd gone down er a fair amount in the mean time . |
| 27 | In the first study four of the 26 subjects with symptomatic infections had influenza B and showed a 38% increase in the mean time taken for the variable fore period simple reaction time task , from 320 ( SD 24 ) ms when recruited to 440 ( SD 90 ) ms when symptomatic . |
| 28 | I could n't summon up a double bass in the short time that I had this rig , which was a shame since , like Hughes & Kettner 's BassBase , the unit is flexible enough to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of the instrument , the primary reason for the onboard notch filter . |
| 29 | If your stay in the new time zone is brief ( 1 or 2 days ) , then a substantial adjustment to it is unlikely . |
| 30 | Erm , er , the funding for that project which I understand has a total cost in excess of a hundred and sixty thousand pounds , has been met from a variety of sources , er , primarily local , but with a contribution from the County Council through the Leisure Services Committee , and also through the Resources Management sub-committee , and in a , indirect sense , in that the , the , the land transferred to the County Council from the District Council for a particular sum , when the project did n't go ahead , the land went back to the District , and had appreciated in value in the intervening time . |