Example sentences of "because [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sybase has done very well in financial markets and companies in Wall Street and the City , mostly because for a long time it could offer facilities such as triggers and stored procedures that Oracle could n't . |
| 2 | Sybase has done very well in financial markets and companies in Wall Street and the City , mostly because for a long time it could offer facilities such as triggers and stored procedures that Oracle could n't . |
| 3 | He managed to stay off alcohol because for the first time for a very long time he was truly afraid . |
| 4 | As the head snuggled into her and the thin arm came round her waist , Aggie drew in a long tight breath ; then when her own arm automatically went around the child , she closed her eyes tightly , because for the first time in her life she was feeling flesh close to her own . |
| 5 | In 1965 the clash was more marked because for the first time the EEC was seriously attempting to inaugurate a common policy . |
| 6 | ‘ Neither does anyone else , but of course Graham 's furious now that he 's started winning , because for the first time for years he could have set up some good contracts — and not least collected some commission on the bonuses paid by Hi-Flight . ’ |
| 7 | But the testing time has now arrived ; because for the first time posts of leadership in humanities departments are being taken up by a generation of scholars who have been familiar with the computer from their earliest schooldays , scholars who are neither frightened by , nor over-respectful of , the new powers which the computer has brought . |
| 8 | Bush said that although " there are some things in it I had to gag and digest " , he would sign it " because for the first time it makes significant and long-term cuts in federal spending that should have a positive impact on America 's economic future " . |
| 9 | They were , nevertheless , dramatic or rather traumatic , because for the first time they came into deliberate and militant confrontation with the forces of tradition , conservatism and especially religion . |
| 10 | This is an attractive idea , but for most adults the goal of learning through communicating naturally in the language throughout the day will , sadly , never be a practical one ; we have to continue to make use of something like formal classroom teaching because of the limited time and resources available . |
| 11 | Partly , it seems , because of the inherent time delay in innovating such contracts . |
| 12 | This survey provides a particularly rich source of data because of the long time span covered . |
| 13 | These are so faint and they only show up because of the long time exposure . |
| 14 | While the costs of maintaining the closed route will be saved , these may be offset by the need to deploy additional resources because of the extra time required to send trains via the diversionary route . |
| 15 | At the moment erm because of the extra time we 've got available because production investment has been delayed because of ministerial decisions , we 've set in train three further studies and they will look collectively at alternatives , comparison in combat modelling and also in the numbers and if I could describe those three very briefly because I think they 're the they 're relevant to what we 're talking about . |
| 16 | Because of the variable time between pulse labelling and biopsy , there will be a trend to higher crypt labelling subsequent on cell division over the longer time periods . |
| 17 | I was even invited to appear on a TV programme , but declined because of the rough time friends had received , and because of the sloppy way previous programmes in that particular series had been presented . |
| 18 | In very simple models , the RRR can be seen to imply , or be implied by , the financial target , but because of the differing time periods , differing accounting conventions , the nature of existing capital stock , and so on , the relationship is unlikely to be straightforward in practice . |
| 19 | The La Guardia flightpath problems apart , one of the main reasons why the current Flushing Meadow is a practical disaster , not least for the world 's media , marooned 120 ′ above the Centre Court , where it is impossible to tell the difference between a drive and a lob , is that because of the short time available , they did try ( albeit with their best efforts ) , to adapt the old Louis Armstrong concert stadium into a tennis arena , rather than start from scratch . |
| 20 | But because of the short time since the Edinburgh summit , few of the projects to be offered money are new . |
| 21 | How many days it was out of service and this that and the other and erm they used to send us an invoice on the mileage run because at the same time we knew what tyres were on the bus we had to inform them of any tyre changes and they kept records the same as us . |