Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deciding game between Angela Corry and Ruth was won by the latter after a time scramble . |
| 2 | They seem to prey ( forgive the pun ) on the bereaved at a time of distress . |
| 3 | Rowland , who this year celebrates 30 years as head of Lonrho , sees the 1990s as a time of great opportunity particularly in Eastern Europe and South Africa . |
| 4 | The two foremen in charge of this shell machine shop were , Sid Freeman and Percy Dyball , both toolmakers , the former for a time employed at Woolwich Arsenal during the first war ; he was later made a foreman in the Fitting Shop . |
| 5 | Discussions included appeals from Manley for greater US assistance to the Caribbean at a time when US preoccupations were being diverted towards Eastern Europe . |
| 6 | It is easy — too easy , perhaps — to see the last decades of the 1700s as a time of unalleviated misery for a large part of the population of the British Isles . |
| 7 | The contemporary hooligan phenomenon arose in the 1960s at a time of unprecedented prosperity and low unemployment and has continued through recession both in the depressed north and the relatively prosperous south . |
| 8 | The Eurocurrency market is a wholesale market ; it had its origins in holdings of US dollars outside the US in the sixties at a time when the US authorities were placing restrictions on capital exports . |
| 9 | A few at a time Martha 's companions would turn into their own yards , until at last she continued alone to the highest village in the valley , her uniform a civilised patch of blue and white against the wild green tracery of the jungle . |
| 10 | After another settling period the first fish would be introduced , a few at a time . |
| 11 | You should introduce fish a few at a time , over a period of several weeks . |
| 12 | 3 Deep fry the chips in hot oil , a few at a time , until golden . |
| 13 | TO peel the chestnuts , use a sharp knife to make a couple of slits in the skin of each one , put them in a saucepan , pour over enough boiling water to cover and simmer over a medium heat for about 5 minutes , then take them out a few at a time , drain and refresh them under running cold water . |
| 14 | They took us a few at a time and there were always prison officers with us . |
| 15 | Next , if you are using lots of fonts — but only a few at a time — you should combine blocks of fonts into Suitcases and then use one or other of the utilities such as Suitcase to manage them for you . |
| 16 | Add remaining oil , and when it is hot , drop in the rice squares , a few at a time , and deep fry until golden and crispy . |
| 17 | By the time you have had two or three months in a language area you should start to collect texts , a few at a time , unless the local people are very suspicious of tape recorders or there is some other inhibiting cultural factor . |
| 18 | You can give me a few at a time if you like . |
| 19 | At times this caused quite a scuffle , especially when we tried to insist on lumping several together and pretending that the result was a nation , albeit a federal one — rather in the same way as the parliamentary managers of the eighteenth century used to bribe Scottish peers by the batch , half a dozen or a dozen at a time . |
| 20 | ‘ This is where the great man sat to write , ’ intoned Samuel , as they pushed -half a dozen at a time into the small study , with its huge jutting window overlooking the sea . |
| 21 | A female fruit fly , simply because of her tiny size , can hardly be expected to produce eggs in numbers to rival a cod , but even so , she can lay two thousand in a season in batches of a hundred at a time . |