Example sentences of "in [adj] time they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These continuous blasts may last for several hours , and in that time they eject large volumes of ash , which is always new magmatic material , rather than shattered bits and pieces of old rock . |
| 2 | In that time they carried two and a half thousand tonnes of food and medical supplies saving countless lives . |
| 3 | In that time they 'd sealed off the room and the hotel . |
| 4 | In that time they saw no movement , no living or dead person , no sign of violence ; nothing , but the ordered emptiness of a darkened and dead ship . |
| 5 | In that time they have built up a force of one hundred and fifty vehicles and three hundred and forty staff . |
| 6 | Meantime , the Brothers exercised , recited litanies , incanted the familiar battle-prayers , meditated , now and then duelled , tested themselves upon algometric pain-meters … and in spare time they scrimshandered the bones of the dead . |