Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that time it has let us down just once , stranding the deputy editor Michael Harvey in Hammersmith with a broken clutch cable . |
| 2 | During that time it has had numerous facelifts , and in what must surely be the last of its nine lives , the Big Cat has had another . |
| 3 | During this time it travels only five times its own length , and the widely spaced propellers allow it to turn in its own length at low speed . |
| 4 | During this time it has donated more than £600,000 to over 2500 local groups , helping the disabled , under fives , elderly and youth groups with a wide range of special projects , or improving their facilities . |
| 5 | For some time it has been suspected that these voltages affect aquarium fish , causing stress and possibly disease . |
| 6 | For some time it has been evident that all I am to you is a vessel to receive your seed . |
| 7 | For some time it has had career breaks to help women ( and occasionally men ) with family needs and he says it has been successful . |
| 8 | For some time it seems I 've been talking to myself . |
| 9 | For all the centuries of recorded time it has existed as an art in which style and fashion were set by the taste of an aristocracy ; bourgeois jewellery , peasant jewellery in less precious materials such as we now call costume jewellery , all imitated court fashion … |
| 10 | Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second . |
| 11 | The river has been cutting downwards for five million years and more , and in that time it has laid bare rocks spanning half of the earth 's history . |
| 12 | In that time it has awarded almost 30,000 at various levels , while staff have published over 12,000 books or research articles , and given almost 10,000 papers at conferences . |
| 13 | In that time it has more than doubled in value . |
| 14 | In this time it seems that all other areas of the Lakes have had a new guide , and some of them two . |
| 15 | A primitive shading is found on a few vases of the generation before , by the Brygos Painter for instance to indicate the roundness of shields ; and in this time it appears , very sparingly , both in red-figure and on another class of Attic vase which we have not yet considered , those with a white slip . |
| 16 | In recent time it has been thoroughly renovated with its style respected and conserved — and serves still as a place of shelter and of refreshment for travellers . |
| 17 | Now it is celebrating its 18th year with Citalia and over that time it has consistently been a most popular resort hotel . |
| 18 | Michael Manser sold Castle Mill soon after its conversion was complete and since that time it has had two further owners , the first of whom installed a lift linking the ground-floor entrance hall with the first-floor dining-room , the generous volume of which has been somewhat reduced by the intrusion of the lift shaft into its south-west corner . |
| 19 | Since that time it has been explored in chemical systems with further mathematics and also experimentally . |
| 20 | Since that time it has had a somewhat chequered history , at certain times being in favour and at others being disapproved of most heartily . |
| 21 | At that time it makes good sense to separate males from females . |
| 22 | The court may annul a bankruptcy order if at any time it appears to the court that the order ought not to have been made ( on any grounds existing at the time the order was made ) or the debts and expenses of the bankruptcy have all been either paid or secured to the satisfaction of the court since the making of the order ( s 282(1) ) . |
| 23 | What she means is that this instruction should be borne in mind if at any time it starts raining . |
| 24 | Then the next week you 're adding a horn section , the week after that you 're adding singers , so by that time it becomes quite a big production . ’ |