Example sentences of "the [adj] time [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The longest time I have ever been alone with her . |
| 2 | Lord Aldington replied : ‘ This will be the hundredth time you say what I 've said is a lie , and it is the hundredth time you have made me very angry . ’ |
| 3 | For the umpteenth time they have arisen because Labour nominees have failed to attend a single meeting in the previous 12 months . |
| 4 | The last part of the resolution is it 's actually taking up the area , where at the present time we have n't got a D S O. It seems stupid that you go into a school and you can clean , clean their classrooms , cut their grass and look after their , do their grounds maintenance , cook the kids ' dinners , but you ca n't do any minor repairs , you 've got to call in another organisation . |
| 5 | At the present time I have one small Clown , a Royal Gramma , a Yellow Tang , a Firefish , and an African Blenny . |
| 6 | At the present time I have in a total of fourteen patrol constables and two community constables and , as you are aware , I have two community constables here in , and . |
| 7 | The dilemma can be expressed as follows : the more accessible teachers seek to make themselves to all their pupils as individuals , the less time they have for direct , extended and challenging interaction with any of them ; but the more time they devote to such extended interaction with some children , the less demanding on them as teachers must be the activities they give to the rest ; and the less demanding an activity is of their time and attention as teachers , the more the likelihood that the activity in question will demand little of the child . |
| 8 | Another important point is that the less time you have in which to do something , the more it costs because you start to run into things like overtime and special delivery payments , rush jobs and so on . |
| 9 | ‘ I certainly have made a lot of mistakes and I have learned that the higher up the ladder you go , the less time you have in which to make your decisions . |
| 10 | Well I must n't keep you talking because the more I , the more I keep you talking the less time you have to do it . |
| 11 | The more people there are around , the less time I have to spend trying to be civil to Piers Morrison ! ’ |
| 12 | The more time we have had to consider the GCSE , the less revolutionary in any true sense it seems to be . |
| 13 | The more time you have to concentrate on training , the quicker the results will be . |
| 14 | The more time you have spent making notes from lectures or from books and rewriting and ordering those notes , the greater the importance that material will be to you . |
| 15 | They keep being written off but they keep bouncing back with this the eighth time they have topped the table this season . |
| 16 | And that , in spite of the short time we have known each other , would not be true … ’ |
| 17 | In the short time we have been presenting Craft and Design in Heriot 's we have already established a reputation for outstanding work and last Session one of our pupils won first prize in the Edinburgh and District Rotary Club Design Competition . |
| 18 | Several transplants have been tried before , but this is the first time they have continued to function for a long period , according to the researchers at the University of Alberta , in Edmonton . |
| 19 | For some people this is literally the first time they have thought about and felt sensual responses in their own body . |
| 20 | This is a splendid opportunity to enjoy the fantastic visibility from the Trislander 's big windows , for many passengers the first time they have really had much of a view from an aircraft . |
| 21 | This was their sixth successive League victory , and though it was only the first time they have scored three goals in a game this season , everyone at Highbury knows it could have been seven . |
| 22 | But this is the first time they have attacked by the very people supposed to be the most enthusiastic about them . |
| 23 | When asked why she allowed the computer so to dominate in this way , she replied ‘ It 's the first time they have been quiet for a whole week ! ’ , reflecting the second cause in the list above . |
| 24 | For many women , it 's the first time they have been given a responsibility of this kind . |
| 25 | Though this is the first time they have mentioned a gun . |
| 26 | It is the first time they have spoken publicly since the death of their two-year-old son James in February this year . |
| 27 | For Rose , of Otterhill Court , Hemlington , and Ann , of Chapman Close , Pallister Park , both Middlesbrough , it will be the first time they have ventured out of the country . |
| 28 | This will be the first time they have spoken in public since Mr McEvoy , 50 , was found gunned down in the driveway of his home in Greta Avenue , Hartlepool , on May 23 . |
| 29 | The 3-0 defeat of England is a first for India and it is also the first time they have recorded a 3-0 win against any other country . |
| 30 | They have been frequently invited to international festivals , but this will be the first time they have visited our own festival — we have been waiting patiently in a very long queue ! |