Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes , did that at the beginning for for a long time . |
| 2 | And no-one looked more livelier than Denis Hollywood in the last seven minutes of a contest that will be talked about for a long time to come . |
| 3 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 4 | Each has its attributes but for all round performance Kodak technical Pan film 2415 is recommended , with subsequent development in Kodak HC1100 developer for about the suggested time at the manufacturer 's dilution D. |
| 5 | Their first innings made only 205 , with 57 from Smith and 43 from debutante Bailey ( whose reward , after failing in the second innings , was to be dropped against Sri Lanka , one of the most astonishing pieces of selectoral crassness for years ) ; but on the second morning , in real sunshine for about the first time in the rubber , Foster bowled splendidly to decapitate the order . |
| 6 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 7 | for about the fifth time |
| 8 | For about the seventh time Folly walked over to the vase on the mantelpiece which held the flowers he had sent her that morning . |
| 9 | ‘ They had just been reconciled for about the 18th time and when work forced them apart he started on the vodka . |
| 10 | For about the hundredth time , I cursed whatever kleptomaniac curmudgeon had walked off the train with my bag . |
| 11 | She put my book down , said for about the fourth time how sorry she was that she 'd missed my reading , but she 'd simply felt too shaky . |
| 12 | I went to the flicks — I wanted to see Some Like It Hot for about the tenth time and it was being revived at Baker Street . |
| 13 | Isabel asked Ellen for about the tenth time . |
| 14 | However , that is what I am paid for as a full- time member of staff . |
| 15 | With new technology making our lives easier by the day , it 's good to know that the environment is being looked after at the same time . |
| 16 | The man paid the gaveller about a shilling a day : if she had a young child to look after at the same time she would have to manage as best she could . |
| 17 | of for a long time ) and this was a puzzle still to be solved , but at least there seemed to be some evidence that fusion was happening , proving their original hypothesis . |
| 18 | The National Council for Women 's ‘ Charter for Women 's Health ’ launched in September calls for the right to knowledge , participation in health-care decisions , opportunity for choice , provision for quality care , accessible health care & the right to a healthy lifestyle ( All issues that the NCT has been working towards for a long time ) . |
| 19 | Indeed , much of the film has dated badly , by comparison with the better American films of around the same time ( Wild River , Psycho , The Hustler , El Cid ) , or to put it more neutrally appears less attractive than it did in its own time . |
| 20 | Kate could n't even justify it by saying it was a boy Lizzy loved , whom her daughter had been with for a long time and so sex was a natural progression . |
| 21 | ‘ And since it 's been over and finished with for a long time , there does n't seem any point in discussing it , especially right now . |
| 22 | For anything we know , it is an agreement entered into for the first time , in consequence of this instrument … . |
| 23 | Along along the bottom time if time is one of the things you 're working with it just about always goes along the bottom . |
| 24 | Erm it maybe that in this alteration the erm it 's worth just spending a minute on whether B eight should just be kept out of the frame for the moment and it 's something that gets dealt with at a later time when more policies are in play . |
| 25 | It is the way that our feelings tell us that they have got too much to cope with at the same time and they need some help — in the jargon this is called needing some ‘ ventilation ’ . |
| 26 | It is interesting that these were exactly the issues that Mezey was concerned with at the same time , though for the whole of the region rather than one area . |
| 27 | In addition it would enable correspondence that deals with several aspects of Council Tax to be dealt with at the same time and a co-ordinated response to be prepared by nominated officers . |
| 28 | It would have made sense for the Government to include this measure in that Bill so that it could be dealt with at the same time . |
| 29 | It 's certainly an anomaly that two players dealt with around the same time end up serving their bans well apart . |
| 30 | What does four stand for in an ordinary time signature ? |