Example sentences of "[prep] [det] time [pers pn] [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 | It 's been five years since Zoë Fairbairns last published a novel , during that time she has been writing a huge and compelling family saga , Daddy 's Girls . |
| 4 | During that time he has been pushing hard to make up any lost ground . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | During this time he falls completely under its spell . |
| 8 | During this time he becomes all the world to her , and he is grateful but unaware of her affection . |
| 9 | During this time he does not feed , but relies on his body fat , accumulated during the period of good summer feeding — this prolonged fast may later prove very costly . |
| 10 | For some time she has been head dancer of a troupe and has travelled extensively abroad , taking part in cabaret on land and aboard cruise ships . |
| 11 | As many of you will have noticed from your Q.T. day programme Beryl will not be teaching this year ; for some time she has taken a great interest in the Back Pain Association and has now become involved particularly at weekends in special classes for back-pain sufferers . |
| 12 | For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion . |
| 13 | For some time it has been suspected that these voltages affect aquarium fish , causing stress and possibly disease . |
| 14 | For some time it has been evident that all I am to you is a vessel to receive your seed . |
| 15 | For some time it has had career breaks to help women ( and occasionally men ) with family needs and he says it has been successful . |
| 16 | For some time it seems I 've been talking to myself . |
| 17 | It 's now ten years since he set up Some Bizzare , and in that time he has enticed Matt Johnson , You 've Got Foetus On Your Breath , Psychic TV , Einstuerzende Neubauten and Berlin-born cabaret singer Anges Bernelle into his entourage . |
| 18 | In that time he has sat through more than 10,000 films.But he confesses that he would n't be seen dead in a cinema . |
| 19 | In that time he has said 27 funeral masses for gang members who had died at gunpoint . |
| 20 | It is nineteen months since Richard Ryder was appointed Government Chief Whip and in that time he has risen to become John Major 's right-hand man . |
| 21 | In that time he has put unemployment up by nearly 1 million , so he can offer us no lectures on the subject of unemployment . |
| 22 | The craft has been his hobby for the past years , and in that time he has seen it grow immensely in popularity . |
| 23 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |
| 24 | Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In that time it has more than doubled in value . |
| 28 | On the other hand , the mere fact that in that time she has overtaken it most one of some 20 countries that outranked her in per capita terms is enough to establish that her record is less than spectacular . |
| 29 | JOAN Bassett has been the conductor of the Hadley Court Singers for over eight years and in that time she has welded this group of 45 singers based at Haddington into a flexible corporate whole motivated at all times by her own perceptive musicianship . |
| 30 | In this time it seems that all other areas of the Lakes have had a new guide , and some of them two . |