Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] time as " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a short time as assistant pathologist at Glasgow Royal , he was appointed lecturer in clinical pathology in the University of St Andrews in 1931 . |
| 2 | He was sitting there with his head in his hands ; he did not rise when the train passed ; he made no movement ; he did not give a glance at the signs I made him ; and for a long time as the train was carrying me away , I watched his little motionless , grief-stricken figure , lost in the desert , an image of my own despair . |
| 3 | This very high degree of risk has been maintained for a long time as many studies over the past thirty years have shown . |
| 4 | These positions are then pre-empted for a long time as the incumbents have many years to go before retirement . |
| 5 | They would remain stable in this state for a long time as stars like our sun , burning hydrogen into helium and radiating the resulting energy as heat and light . |
| 6 | Alice was understandably puzzled , saying , ‘ Well in our country you 'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we 've been doing . ’ |
| 7 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |
| 8 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |
| 9 | The Leeward Islands had tried to ignore Carlisle 's lieutenant-governor as early as the 1630s , and when the islands became royal colonies in the 1660s they were treated for a short time as separate communities , with each island being regarded as an individual colony . |
| 10 | Consequently its Laplace transform is or The unit impulse function is infinite for an infinitesimal time as indicated in figure 11.5(d) and its integral over all time is unity . |
| 11 | to delay the implementation of the new structure until the present time as requested by NALGO to allow greater consultation ; |
| 12 | These proposals are aimed at providing the public with more reassurances than are provided at the present time as to whether boards of directors have fulfilled their stewardship responsibilities . |
| 13 | ‘ I left at the right time as I felt the band had run out of ideas and it was becoming motivated by the wrong things . |
| 14 | It was most fortunate that we sailed from Cape Town at the appointed time as he had many engagements in Australia — most important the Opening of Parliament in Melbourne a day or two after his arrival . |
| 15 | Where they come into their own , is let's say that you wanted to phone me in July because my wedding anniversary is in July , you could turn to the back of the July calendar card , write down call Ricky Elliot on the seventh , because it 's his wedding anniversary , erm , and write down my , my telephone number and then distressing though I find this idea , you could forget the whole thing , confident in the knowledge that the system will remind you at the appropriate time as to what action you should take . |
| 16 | Well I called a meeting but I did n't think I advertised it well enough because there was a lot of interest and then I think we held it at the wrong time as well did n't we , |
| 17 | Er yeah it is Stefan but because you know it 's the first one to come into leaf and the first one to shed , then possibly it will flower at a different time as well I would think and that may be the clue . |