Example sentences of "[prep] the time in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Landlord Bill Long , who has since moved to another pub , gave evidence in support of the defendant , verifying that he had been within his sight for the time in question , except for a brief spell when he was collecting glasses .
2 I have proposed that , on the reasonable assumption that resources remained more or less constant for the time in question , the price exacted for ( phyletically ) growing larger was to become rarer , thereby increasing the probability of extinction ( Hallam , 1975 ) .
3 In fact ( the myth persists ) , even if the slim person does not especially like these foods , he or she sticks with them for a large part of the time in order to maintain a trim figure .
4 A long , low , back variant appears 78 per cent of the time in Andersonstown as opposed to 68 per cent of the time in Braniel .
5 of the time in Trebizond itself , I managed to fit in a trip to Rizé , where the countryside resembles that of Switzerland , and also , by great good luck , to Hopa , which is not far away from the Russian frontier .
6 I have so far had 4 people interested in travelling from the UK , and another 3 who would like to join us for part of the time in NZ .
7 Because Mr. Thorpe resides for part of the time in London , he decided to try another Health Authority .
8 We 'll spend most of the time in bed . ’
9 As the aircraft were left out ‘ dispersed ’ most of the time in English or in tropical rain these compartments soon became little damp boxes , often with a puddle at the bottom .
10 The contra leaders , sitting for much of the time in Miami in their well-cut lightweight suits and their gold watches , had purposes in view , some of them not especially noble ; the rebels in the field were mostly tired , variously motivated , and confused .
11 ( Such a longing , incidentally , tends to forget certain unpleasant features of the time in question : for black Americans a reassertion of eighteenth-century values would mean a return to slavery . )
12 A long , low , back variant appears 78 per cent of the time in Andersonstown as opposed to 68 per cent of the time in Braniel .
13 ‘ Housing problems take up a lot of the time in prison , ’ he said .
14 Dahl for much of the time in Dresden , in the same house as the German Romantic painter Caspar David Griedrich , and both were dazzled and bewitched by the golden luminosity of Italy .
15 To beguile some of the time in Malvern , they went to the cinema .
16 A clinical smell like solvent that reminded her instantly of the time in hospital when she gave birth to Sousan .
17 Most of the time in negotiation is usually spent over the terms of the warranties .
18 Section 9(4) , which operates at the time of the application for an order under the Act , looks back towards the time in relation to which the witness would give evidence if an order was made and not forward to the time at which he would do so .
19 That up to the time in Edinburgh , the Monotype machines have been largely , if not chiefly , operated by women , and that women have proved themselves entirely competent to work these machines , so that it seems a great hardship that women should be debarred from working at them in future .
20 A recent correspondence printed in the Regimental Association journal Mars and Minerva alluded to the time in Operation Houndsworth when three aircraft had left from Fairford for the Morvan .
21 The second is the language related to the time in question : for example , Old English , Norman French and Medieval Latin .
22 It does not matter that A was at the time in possession in his capacity , not as seller , but as repairer .
23 Peoples like the Maya and Aztecs were organized on a hierarchical basis and supported civilizations altogether more developed than those prevailing at the time in North America .
24 Solti 's conducting is simply too unstable and volatile to give much satisfaction , showing his inexperience at the time in Wagner ( how sad Knappertsbusch was n't given the assignment ) .
25 The High Court ruled on June 30 , however , that a pardon conferred on the Black Moslems at the time in return for the release of hostages and signed by the President of the Senate and the then acting head of state Joseph Emmanuel Carter , absolved them of any crimes .
26 judge entitled to take into account the subsequent fitting of handrail indicating path was a candidate for special treatment and to conclude d's system in conditions prevailing at the time in question was inadequate .
27 Making the reasonable assumption that Sue wanted , for professional reasons , to be " identified with " her clients , we have here evidence that she did adjust her linguistic behaviour in such a way as to bring it closer to that of a group with which , at the time in question , she wished to be identified .
28 … there was , of course , a dispute between the parties at the time in question in the sense that they could not agree on the amount of the yearly rent ; but it was not a dispute in which each had formulated a view which was then placed for decision before the independent surveyor .
29 Anyone who saw anything suspicious around the hospital at the time in question should contact the police on .
30 Its entrance was discovered in 1950 and two years later this deepest of all gouffres acquired a sad celebrity with the death there of Marcel Loubens , a Belgian speleologist , who was badly injured deep underground but could not be got to the surface quickly enough to save his life , a story I dimly remember reading at the time in newspapers .
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