Example sentences of "time in [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detailed analysis is ignored in favour of a sustained defence of " realism " in literature : " I call for a return to reality " , Aragon repeats six times in as many pages . " |
| 2 | It does not help your cause much , either , if you give the ball away close to the opposition 's line four times in as many minutes . |
| 3 | You could change your mind three times in as many seconds , and that was the exhausting thing about being in love . |
| 4 | Much of the evening was taken up with reminiscences , talk of Edna 's family — particularly her fisherman brother , Bert — and the fact that Four Winds had changed hands four times in as many years . |
| 5 | Dempsey defended his title only six times in as many years and constantly snubbed black challenges , one interesting one appearing in the pages of the New York Times from a certain Prince Mohammed Ali Ibrahim of Egypt whose special weapon was a ‘ pyramid punch ’ ( 4 March 1924 , p. 14 ) . |
| 6 | The kitten had to go to the vet three times in as many weeks and was more expensive than the baby . |
| 7 | He also stressed that these goals were not those of the US alone , for " they had been endorsed by the UN Security Council five times in as many weeks " and were shared by numerous countries , many of which assisted the international military effort against Iraq . |
| 8 | Gerber , South Africa 's record try-scorer with 19 , has touched down four times in as many internationals and his centre partnership with Pieter Muller poses a more difficult challenge to Carling and Jeremy Guscott than they may have envisaged three months ago . |
| 9 | For the second time in just six months , an IRA car bomb causes widespread destruction . |
| 10 | Yet again , these women continued to be excluded from both redundancy and social security provisions but this time in rather different ways . |
| 11 | Midfielder Les Briley , 35 , is recalled to the squad for the first time in nearly four months . |
| 12 | For the first time in nearly four years , gross domestic product ( GDP ) fell in the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 13 | She was picturing her daughter , her beloved Angel , and as the pony stepped daintily over the cobbles she was counting the minutes until she was with her for the first time in nearly six months . |
| 14 | And for the first time in nearly three years she had been able to talk about Martin . |
| 15 | For the first time in nearly three years someone spoke my name . |
| 16 | Today , South Africa play rugby in England for the first time in nearly 23 years when a line-up containing five current internationals faces the Midlands at Leicester 's Welford Road . |
| 17 | For the first time in nearly 40 years Bentley has a shape to call its own . |
| 18 | One January 20 , he promises the front door of the White House will swing open for the first time in nearly 30 years , as Bill , wife Hilary and 12-year-old daughter Chelsea pop down to McDonald 's and do a little shopping . |
| 19 | One of Edinburgh 's most unusual houses has opened to the public , for the first time in nearly twenty years . |
| 20 | There is also plenty of water for the shoals to be feeding at the same time in widely separated places . |
| 21 | HOPES of a rapid economic recovery were dealt another blow yesterday when unemployment rose to 2.7m for the first time in almost five years . |
| 22 | New Zealand 's quarrel with France over the Rainbow Warrior incident was formally ended when a French naval ship docked at Auckland for the first time in almost six years . |
| 23 | British Steel , which yesterday broke through the 100p barrier for the first time in almost two years , lost 3p today to 100p as investors became jittery that its recovery potential might not be as great as originally anticipated . |
| 24 | Karr smiled , relaxing for the first time in almost twelve hours of searching . |
| 25 | Among the more significant changes , prompted in part by criticism of the government 's handling of events leading up to the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] , was the replacement of the Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Sabah al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah , who failed to obtain a Cabinet post for the first time in almost three decades . |
| 26 | As right-wing supporters , many appearing in public for the first time in almost three years , welcomed their liberators with monarchist flags and fascist salutes , many other Spaniards faced a terrifying future : so terrifying , indeed , that to some suicide was preferable . |
| 27 | UNEMPLOYMENT in Britain has fallen for the first time in almost three years . |
| 28 | Father O'Malley wrote out his former pupil 's instructions and for the second time in as many days Charlie signed his name to an official document . |
| 29 | Its the third time in as many years that the John Radcliffe Hospital has postponed non emergency operations … last year it was because of the Gulf War … |
| 30 | For the second time in as many weeks , Alton firemen were called out to a night-time factory blaze to deal with a fire at Vessa Ltd in Paper Mill Lane . |