Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How he disciplined himself to make ends meet in that difficult time he explained in his book What To Do When Someone Has Debt Problems , A Practical Survival Guide ( 1985 ) , in the Introduction to which he wrote : |
| 2 | It is only three years since she took up painting dogs as a profession , but in that short time she has been kept constantly in work . |
| 3 | In all that time we have actually had two people say yes I would like to cancel , of all the policies that we 've actually issues . |
| 4 | In all that time she only twice took a break from shooting , when she went to Melbourne for her 21st birthday party — a $100,000 family-only blow out at the fashionable Red Eagle Hotel — and a week later for Jason Donovan 's birthday bash . |
| 5 | And in all that time she 'd never heard from Jez , nor even from her parents . |
| 6 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 7 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 8 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 9 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |
| 10 | But in all that time I 've never been completely sober . ’ |
| 11 | Working day at least in all that time I had entered or come out from that building and its reality had gone for me . |
| 12 | I 've supported Leeds since I was 5 and in all that time I 've never once wished Leeds would lose a game , ever . |
| 13 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
| 14 | In all this time it has only ever had three owners . |
| 15 | ‘ In any other time he would have been a pirate or a highwayman . ’ |