Example sentences of "[noun sg] in the time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quality matters more than quantity in the time you spend together . |
| 2 | The answering of each individual question in the time you have allowed must be planned like a military exercise . |
| 3 | He won the Commonwealth and European titles , married and became a father in the time he lived with his particular pain . |
| 4 | She herself had never aspired to a career , finding complete satisfaction in acting as her husband 's typist and research assistant in the time she had left over from gardening and housekeeping . |
| 5 | The PROFITBOSS finds profit in the time he finds for people . |
| 6 | She stared out of the window and thought she could write a book in the time it was taking them to get to Nice , which really was just around the corner . |
| 7 | I could of finished that ship in the time we might of had |
| 8 | To allow the horses and their appended jockeys through , all points of the tape must rise by about 1 metre in the time it takes a horse to travel about the same distance from rest , perhaps much less than 0.1 seconds . |
| 9 | That light travels at the speed of five times around the earth in the time it takes to say rice pudding is indeed an amazing matter . |
| 10 | er reading and I ha , I could n't hold of enough of the material in the time I 'd got to write the essay so I would n't have studied enough , so I did this one on machines , and I got hold of two good books . |