Example sentences of "[coord] for a time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before his association with William Smith and other Lollards of Leicester he had acted as a preacher and for a time as a hermit , with varied reception but some support from the Augustinian canons at Leicester Abbey . |
| 2 | Canterbury was the senior court and for a time during the Commonwealth period — between 1655 and 1660 — all wills were proved there . |
| 3 | Exploitation of the alluvial deposits of the Altai still further east allowed Russia to displace Brazil and for a time to be the world 's leading producer of gold . |
| 4 | Courses at the London School of Economics , which became social anthropology 's chief centre in Great Britain ( and for a time in the world ) , began with the appointment in 1910 of C. G. Seligman . |
| 5 | But for a time in 1990 it seemed likely to split apart . |
| 6 | The costs of ruling an " empire " were high , but for a time in the 1760s the revenues of northern India were almost self-supporting , with no bullion being exported in 1767 – . |