Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ankles remain together at all times and feet should be over the knees . |
| 2 | The company seems to have been forgiven for its oil spill in the Mersey estuary in 1989 ; it came third in ‘ community and environmental responsibility ’ , only one place down from last time . |
| 3 | One can think of these fluctuations as pairs of particles of light or gravity that appear together at some time , move apart , and then come together again and annihilate each other . |
| 4 | Many animals , from sheep to starlings , breed only at certain times of year — again depending on day length . |
| 5 | Not only do cross-border calls cost up to six times as much as domestic calls of equal distance , but technical standards , tariffs , service and transmission quality change wherever a telephone line crosses a dotted line on a map . |
| 6 | Those which cost up to 2 times the yardstick rugs . |
| 7 | An RSPCA official said : ‘ This all seems very pointless because wasps die out at this time of year anyway . ’ |
| 8 | When I began collecting material , one of the Blaxhall people offered me an open invitation : ‘ Drop in at any time if you want to know anything . |
| 9 | Facilities for homeless people are of course open only at certain times of the day and I had n't the money to go anywhere else . |
| 10 | Election Call , the daily phone-in , has attracted audiences of more than a million , compared with between 300,000 and 700,000 who normally tune in at that time . |
| 11 | In the Western world ( though not often in developing countries ) many public library users read recreationally at one time or another , and large numbers of people read in this way almost exclusively . |
| 12 | Members aged from five to fifty meet up to three times a week to practise their judo moves together . |
| 13 | Neighbours say the animals bark incessantly at all times of the day and night . |
| 14 | The NTV , with its headquarters in Lagos , had television stations in all nineteen state capitals which link up at certain times — especially for the main evening news bulletin — and have federally appointed management . |
| 15 | Travel back to Victorian times . |
| 16 | Often they germinate well at this time of year , and will overwinter and get off to a good start next spring . |
| 17 | The ability of a bigger bank to absorb a smaller one into its systems is a main reason why purchases of smaller banks bring up to three times bigger savings than mergers of equals . |
| 18 | We eat up to ten times the amount of salt we actually need ; on average about two teaspoonfuls a day , half of which is added by manufacturers during food processing . |
| 19 | Are you aware that you eat differently at certain times of the month and perhaps even crave sweet food when your period arrives ? |
| 20 | Repeat up to 30 times . |
| 21 | We , all of us had er a bed-sitting room of our own which we kept on between cases cos we had to have somewhere to live and erm and then of course we , we 'd come back there and make up for lost time really . |
| 22 | Some say they 'll take over the children 's education completely as they try to help their youngsters make up for lost time . |
| 23 | In Wordperfect 's estimation the resellers usually make up to five times the money from installation and integration as from the actual product sale . |
| 24 | They cost more to start with , but last up to eight times as long , and use only a quarter of the energy . |
| 25 | Only 35 per cent of young people in Britain stay on in full time education and training . |
| 26 | Have cockpit master switch and Pitot heat switch ON for prescribed time before checking that Pitot and static sources are in fact being heated . |
| 27 | I thought it was rather a bad sign that I was told I could , as a family friend , go in at any time . |
| 28 | He said just go in at any time and we 'll pick it up . |
| 29 | Average price for a home is £3 million but some fetch up to three times more . |
| 30 | Broadcast schedules have to be planned in advance , programmes go out at regular times and have slots of fixed length . |