Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following account summarizes the factual information I obtained about the prison , as well as the general impressions I gained during the necessarily short time I was able to spend inside it . |
| 2 | The mention of the word ‘ arts ’ often brought out feelings of resentment in physics students about the apparently easy time arts students had of it : |
| 3 | He said the care of the staff at Ipswich Hospital and Denise helped him through the most difficult time of his life . |
| 4 | ‘ He quit after a fairly short time — I think he may have done it for only two terms . |
| 5 | As a result , we feel very tired after a comparatively short time . |
| 6 | And this pays in the results you get only after a very long time . |
| 7 | If such businesses are independent and directly answerable to the stock market , any bad investment decisions would only become apparent after a very long time . |
| 8 | But decline does not mean " cessation " , immediately or even after a very long time ; although erection will occur gradually less often , ejaculation will take longer to achieve with the passing years and the frequency of sexual intercourse tends slowly to decrease , there need not be any enormous difference sexually between a man of 20 and one of 70 . |
| 9 | Solid drinking ‘ Two years ago I had a one-day relapse after a very long time of being sober . |
| 10 | One day after a very difficult time with him , I exploded and said to him : ‘ I ca n't say that the Christian faith has made much difference to your life ! ’ |
| 11 | There was an inevitable lack of interest when rabbit stocks fell after myxomatosis , and after a very short time there was a corresponding fall in the number of ferrets retained for sporting purposes . |
| 12 | After a very short time , he stopped , and laid the bowl down . |
| 13 | I am sure that if I had been his secretary for a fortnight I should have wanted to poison him , not marry him … yes , I should have run round to the chemist 's for threepennyworth of poison after a very short time . |
| 14 | If you continue to knit , you will end up with dropped stitches and probably jam the carriage after a very short time . |
| 15 | She turned abruptly into the fitting-room and after a very short time reappeared , looking as perfect as if she had spent hours dressing instead of minutes . |
| 16 | Pros : Proves indispensable after a very short time — Power Toolbox is especially nice . |
| 17 | Teachers , therefore , need to took both at the frequency and the proportion of their interactions in considering how to make the best use of the strictly limited time available for interacting with each of their pupils . |
| 18 | His beatification aroused criticism from some Catholics not only because of the relatively short time that had elapsed since his death , but also because of what they claimed was the right-wing content of his views . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't think of a more opportune time , ’ said the Loremaster . |
| 20 | The fact that this predictor is significantly associated with death at six weeks in this study and not in others could be caused by the same biases previously discussed or to the choice of a more restrictive time period — that is , 72 hours , for estimating the volume of index bleed . |
| 21 | It seemed like a very long time ago when I and others followed Lovat into this house . |
| 22 | His colleagues , working on the flight data and cockpit voice recordings , will be able to feed in much data , also recorded against a very accurate time base which can be synchronised with the radio transcript . |
| 23 | ‘ It might seem like an awful long time to be working on a debut album , but we 're were n't going to be rushed , ’ says Dermot . |
| 24 | Julius stared at her for what seemed like an extraordinarily long time . |
| 25 | True , it is Crush drummer Ric Menck 's ( 30th ) birthday , and he 's out for a grinningly good time , whatever the weather . |
| 26 | Despite episcopal censures , the practice continued for a surprisingly long time ; measures were taken to stop Irish clergy so cohabiting as late as the sixth century . |
| 27 | It has become the drug of choice for the American armed forces and for the World Health Organization , and has survived against the threat of resistant strains for a surprisingly long time . |
| 28 | Basically , however , British cities ‘ got by ’ for a surprisingly long time . |
| 29 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 30 | Mr Deukmejian , who was elected governor in 1982 , has been trying for a mighty long time to get the death penalty enforced in California . |