Example sentences of "course [prep] time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Above all , attention has concentrated on the ways in which in the course of time they managed to transform their basis of subsistence , increase and concentrate populations and by making possible a finer subdivision of labour promote advances in technology which in turn generated further cycles of progressive change . |
2 | And in the course of time they began to make simple documentaries erm which would be something say the study of Pekin , if you happened to go there , or Italy if you happened to go , any country that to which you could go , you went and you made not just newsreels but also erm documentary studies of these films , of these places . |
3 | Weeks went by and months went by ; in the course of time they had a little son . |
4 | Glasses are not particularly stable materials , and in the course of time they devitrify , acquiring a micro-crystalline structure , and losing their glassy transparency . |
5 | In the course of time I moved into other , larger rooms ; the last had a splendid view of Windsor Castle . |
6 | In the course of time it cooled and acquired an atmosphere from the emission of gases from the rocks . |
7 | In the course of time he becomes one of the world 's most famous cooks . |
8 | In course of time he finds that he is the pet antipathy of his superior officers , that he is made a butt for the amusement of other men on parade , and that if there is any unpleasant work or unpopular bear or point going vacant it falls to his lot to fill it . |
9 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |