Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm at the end of a metre is difficult to be sure , but it 's somewhere between ten thousand years and fifty thousand years in these deposits , to give you a rough idea of the kind of length of time we 're talking about . |
| 2 | But the mines became increasingly unprofitable despite efforts to improve them , and in course of time they were " farmed out " to Emanuel and Daniel , both sons of old Höchstetter . |
| 3 | In course of time he finds that he is the pet antipathy of his superior officers , that he is made a butt for the amusement of other men on parade , and that if there is any unpleasant work or unpopular bear or point going vacant it falls to his lot to fill it . |
| 4 | In order to engage in comparisons over time we were faced with a dilemma stemming from the change in the range of newspapers over this period . |
| 5 | From rime to time we strolled hand in hand , with lighted cigarettes to give warning of our presence , for we did not talk . |
| 6 | From time to time they shed meteorites and the odd one will make a small , exotic dent on the surface of pop . |
| 7 | For these reasons — their pattern of settlement , the ease , low cost and low risk of meeting obligations — Zuwaya were able to still think of themselves as nomads : they were wrong , but from time to time they could and did regard some of their social arrangements as unchanging , inert . |
| 8 | From time to time they lose patience and sweep aside decadent governments . |
| 9 | From time to time they would engage in what read like mannered conversations on whether they were acting as Cabinet ministers or as purely departmental ministers . |
| 10 | The fire had formed a bed of glowing ash , a core on which from time to time they threw a branch . |
| 11 | Kalchu and Chola were both at home and from time to time they looked down , both repelled and fascinated . |
| 12 | From time to time they surface to make regulation a topic of political debate . |
| 13 | Judges have a lively perception of public opinion on sentences ; from time to time they receive letters from disgruntled members of the public , and they read criticism of their decisions in the newspapers . |
| 14 | The goal of social independence , of helping people to ‘ look after themselves ’ , is a very important one , but many individuals with long-term mental disorder may also need specific medical and psychological treatment to lessen the burden of symptoms ; from time to time they may also need extra supervision , care and shelter . |
| 15 | ‘ I just play for relaxation nowadays , but I know two of the guys who play here regularly and from time to time they invite me to join them . ’ |
| 16 | From time to time we visited the old barrio chino , the red-light district , which formed a kind of everyman 's land at the heart of the bell-haunted , church-loaded city . |
| 17 | But I went along with him , and from time to time we shared a toothbrush , either his or mine . |
| 18 | From time to time we emerge from the factory to buy raw materials at Safeway or Mothercare , and in the end my daily discipline only echoes the great Baconian System when I purchase a frozen chicken . |
| 19 | From time to time we offer other fruit pies such as cherry , apricot , blueberry , etc . |
| 20 | From time to time we still had meat , for cattle still had to be slaughtered and there was little transport , because of the fuel shortage , to carry them to the wholesale market . |
| 21 | From time to time we have copies of WWF News and other member communications returned to us because people have moved house and forgotten to inform us of their new address . |
| 22 | We get down in the darkness and from time to time we pull the wire . |
| 23 | Rational arguments and the need for money may keep it submerged but from time to time it is so inflamed that it can no longer be suppressed . |
| 24 | The Whitebred/Welsh Black cross is known as the Blue Albion and from time to time it has been classified as a separate breed . |
| 25 | From time to time it contracted , and Davies saw a small pale mass ejected . |
| 26 | From time to time it is inevitable there will be some unwelcome arrivals in the net . |
| 27 | From time to time it is helpful to have a fresh voice with a different approach . |
| 28 | From time to time it will be necessary to wash your dog 's coat . |
| 29 | Sporadic cases of the disease continued for some years and from time to time it was necessary to reopen the hospital for their reception . |
| 30 | From time to time it may be necessary to remove some of the rockwork , and plastic plants if you have them , and give them a scrub beneath a tap to remove excessive algal growth . |