Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun sg] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm just , you know thinking of the time . |
| 2 | Suzy Menkes , then fashion editor of The Times , described Laura in a major feature as ‘ The queen of printed cotton … who has nurtured a nostalgia for a vanished rural world . ’ |
| 3 | Yet some of the richness and wit of the Jacobean dialogue is threatened by its being spoken in thick Italian/New York accents — mastered better by some actors than others — and snatches of more modern speech , while essential for credibility , draw attention to the time warp . |
| 4 | However heaters only operate part of the time , so it is generous to say 1p per hour . |
| 5 | Although couched in the typically occult language of the time , Garland 's prescient account catches society at a crossroads : those young homosexuals adrift in a postwar landscape without signs may now be seen as harbingers of a new way of life and a new economic order — variously described as pop culture , youth culture or the Teen age — which stand at the heart of ‘ late , consumer or multinational capitalism ’ . |
| 6 | Use bactericide for the time being to guard against infection , but do nothing else which may further stress the fish . |
| 7 | It was necessary , she told her persuasively , that she leave sanctuary for the time being . |
| 8 | Irving Fisher 's version of the quantity theory can be explained in terms of the following ‘ equation of exchange ’ : where M is the nominal stock of money in circulation and V is the transactions velocity of circulation of money ( that is , the average number of times the given quantity of money changes hands in transactions ) ; P is the average price of all transactions and T is the number of transactions that take place during the time period . |
| 9 | ‘ I lose track of the time . ’ |
| 10 | We still have difficulty with the time changes towards a pot of geraniums ! ’ |