Example sentences of "[adv] think [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | One has only to think of the time it took and what was necessary to develop the now largely taken-for-granted temperature scales ; an effort involving not only technological developments , but also developments in physics , thermodynamics , mathematics , and more . |
| 2 | But just think about the time involved . |
| 3 | At the end we er , of the day I had to opt out because it was n't possible for me to fit in and someone else a , I 'm just thinking of the time taken for er , er housing manager or one of his er , staff to erm er , you know , to do that practical thing that 's all |
| 4 | A defendant may state that he honestly thought at the time that the girl was above 16 and that he never thought to enquire , or that the girl was dressed up and wearing make-up . |
| 5 | Joyce 's use of stream of consciousness was often thought at the time to be an achievement so outstanding as to deter imitation : Ezra Pound , for example , suggested , ‘ Ulysses is , presumably … unrepeatable … you can not duplicate it ’ ( Pound 1922 : 625 ) . |
| 6 | I was n't really thinking at the time . |