Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 No , it was a piece I am very fond of and it happened to be in quite a few programmes at that time .
2 In strictly layman 's terms , the amount of additional engine-weight and fuel that any supersonic aircraft could get off the ground would give a few minutes of sub-orbital time , if that .
3 It was built in 876 , and those ancient parts of the church that remain are among the few fragments from that time that still exist , not only in Milan , but also in Lombardy .
4 They had been long debated , but it should be emphasized how few individuals at this time believed that poverty could actually be eliminated , except perhaps in the very long run .
5 Gary arranged for the well-known warbird pilot John Crocker to ferry the aircraft across the Atlantic for me , John being one of the few pilots at that time who could be insured to undertake such a flight . ’
6 And we had erm we , there was a few changes during that time , we used to get troops coming in and occupying the classroom , and we maybe , at the very early days I can remember having to go to the Street School and also the Street Hall which belong that was a church hall .
7 ‘ Time-lapse ’ , as its name suggests , makes possible recording in bursts of a few frames at variable time intervals so that subjects such as the movement of clouds or the budding of flowers can be studied in speeded-up replay .
8 There were few buses at any time , and none at that hour .
9 He increased his speed until he was running flat out , buying a few seconds of precious time to allow him to find a good defence position .
10 She was still sitting there when the silence began , those few moments of suspended time that came before the sounding of the air-raid sirens .
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