Example sentences of "[coord] in the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was no easy matter , it being a crumbly cheese — My mother however did it — I went into the garden for something or other , and in the mean time my Brother Frank minced my cheese , ‘ to disappoint the favorite ’ . |
| 2 | She was good fun to be with and easy to talk to , and in the short time he 'd known her she had shown a ready sense of humour . |
| 3 | The Lord Chancellor has publicly invited the profession to put forward its own proposals for savings and in the little time allowed , the following package has now been put to the Lord Chancellor . |
| 4 | But in the mean time , whose hand has Granovsky escaped from ? |
| 5 | But in the mean time , encouraged perhaps by such apparent signs of weakness , perhaps simply by pressure on their order-books , the Edinburgh master printers began recruiting girl apprentices in larger numbers than ever before during the early years of the century , to the growing despair of the ETS and increasing anger from the male trade-union movement in general . |
| 6 | But in the mean time my wages I 've had last week have been spent |
| 7 | Lillywhite was fourth and Smith ninth but in the same time as the second placed man , ensuring them the top two places overall . |