Example sentences of "[art] time it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the time it took Nick to arrive Harriet forced herself to wash and change into a clean sweatshirt , though the most mundane of everyday actions seemed a huge effort . |
| 2 | In the end , and to add to the injustices he had already suffered , Meehan was obliged to wait five years , which was the time it took Lord Hunter to complete and publish his report . |
| 3 | I saw a school essay containing the word ‘ yrnetn ’ for wire netting ; and only the other day the Independent Magazine carried an advertisement for Philips Dictation Systems with the interesting sentence : ‘ In the time it took Dickens to write A Tale of Two Cities he could of told us a dozen more . ’ |
| 4 | This involved combining the current running costs of the plant with the cost of capital investment at the time it took place , many years before . |
| 5 | At least , in those extraordinary days between Hiroshima and the declaration of Vietnamese independence , hardly anyone , except the French garrison who were still imprisoned , first by the Japanese and then by the Vietminh , could be found to contradict this assumption of power and by the time it took place , or at least was claimed , another thread in the French connection had been broken . |
| 6 | The Court of Appeal doubted the validity of trespass ab initio , as it meant that lawful acts could be made unlawful by subsequent events and the lawfulness of an act should be judged at the time it took place . |
| 7 | No problem to Lucy , who kept smiling through , witty and charming , zipping through three courses of creative cuisine into a smart frock and an atomised squirt of Coty L'Amant in the time it took Martin and ‘ the gang ’ to get home . |
| 8 | The scientists concluded that it would have been better to leave the beaches alone , but as one commented : " At the time it made sense . |
| 9 | By the time it reached London , what seemed to be missing most of all was the play itself . |
| 10 | The food was described as tasteless and monotonous , and often cold by the time it reached people housed some distance from the kitchens . |
| 11 | Light goes maybe 30 metres in the time it takes sound to travel the 0.2mm thickness of the emulsion . |
| 12 | At the time it seemed things could get no worse but , inexorably , they did . |
| 13 | According to one account , by the time it hit Villequier , it was a wall of water several metres high moving at fifteen miles per hour . |
| 14 | Fish never quite tastes the same by the time it reaches London . |
| 15 | ( Objects lose different fractions of their kinetic energy before catastrophic disruption ; for example , the 29-m stony asteroid entering at 45° has had its kinetic energy reduced by ablation and deceleration to 10Mton by the time it reaches 10km altitude . ) |
| 16 | It becomes more concentrated as the day wears on , and by the time it reaches peak levels , in the late afternoon , the polluted air will usually have drifted away from the cities into the countryside . |
| 17 | The weekly ritual slaughter was too gory a ceremony for her to watch , though every time it took place she was reminded of how it always fascinated her daughters when they were children . |
| 18 | Luke stood with legs wide apart , hitting the horse with the whip-handle every time it showed signs of slowing down . |
| 19 | For a time it seems water was pumped straight from the canal and/or from a well perilously close to it ( see 1840 plan ) . |