Example sentences of "and in [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 We were taken the few miles out to Wyton by RAF transport and in a short time , smiling falsely at each other and with our cumbersome parachutes bumping round our legs , we found ourselves walking out to the plane for our first flight .
2 This fire grew very rapidly and in a short time the port wing was burnt away .
3 Our expansion had necessitated the leasing of more expensive equipment and in a short time the café was losing a lot of money .
4 Pondering on her invitation , suddenly the idea came to me that my collection of quotations and prayers could form the basis of a helpful book , and in a short time an anthology took shape under the title of Journey for a Soul .
5 It has a modern bistro feel , and in a short time catering manager Debbie Ferrie and her staff have impressed with their food .
6 That is , each of the samples should be a random representative sample of the whole user population in a specific geographical location and in a given time period .
7 This was no easy matter , it being a crumbly cheese — My mother however did it — I went into the garden for something or other , and in the mean time my Brother Frank minced my cheese , ‘ to disappoint the favorite ’ .
8 She was good fun to be with and easy to talk to , and in the short time he 'd known her she had shown a ready sense of humour .
9 The Lord Chancellor has publicly invited the profession to put forward its own proposals for savings and in the little time allowed , the following package has now been put to the Lord Chancellor .
10 could not temper itself , but needs she must bewray her outrageous lust , and in an inconvenient time of the year , despising all discommodities of the way and weather , and all danger of thieves , she betook herself headlong to her journey with such a company as no man of any honest degree would have adventured his life and his goods among them .
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