Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Myra is a dear , but she 's also a gossip … my reputation will be in shreds by the time I get back . ’ |
| 2 | Finally it is stored in casks for a time which varies according to the final requirements , since pale and bitter ales take longer to mature than mild ales . |
| 3 | We take chain mail very much for granted , seeing it depicted in paintings of the time , or in recent cinematic extravaganzas . |
| 4 | No data are available , however , in PSS on the time taken by the weakened oesophagus to clear itself of a known amount of acid . |
| 5 | In comments at the time they were described as a kit of parts . |
| 6 | Individuals are thus faced with a cost in terms of the time and effort spent on ensuring that they keep in money form only the amount required to cover their day-to-day transactions . |
| 7 | Children were less directly affected but there were considerable indirect effects , in terms of the time their mothers had for them and the effect of the grandparent on daily living . |
| 8 | The PB was to be recorded in terms of the time Olwyn went to bed each evening and the CB in terms of the number of times Olwyn was in bed by 8pm . |
| 9 | It was impossible to evaluate my effectiveness as a role model , facilitator and practical teacher in terms of the time involved , but I was reassured by the fact I had spent 10 per cent of my time formally teaching students — although some nurses would rather spend this time at the bedside . |
| 10 | Ten of the subjects like the one above ) had unambiguous accounts of cold water in their dreams , and in these subjects their dream reports showed a very good correlation ( in terms of the time that the action in the dream would have taken since the cold water spray ) with the actual time elapsed . |
| 11 | Erm because it is an onerous task , erm onerous in terms of the time that needs spending doing the job even if it 's relatively simple in terms of what needs to be done it still takes time and there 's still running around to do . |
| 12 | Monitor the use made of it and assess recording proposals in terms of the time they will take , and the usefulness of the end result . |
| 13 | Safety is to be judged in terms of the time when the product was supplied . |
| 14 | It 's a convenient unit , perhaps a useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the time that light takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun . |
| 15 | I was doing my SHO in paediatrics at the time , and I had a word with my boss . |
| 16 | A change came in the second half of the 1370s , when there was a sharp drop in prices at a time when wages continued to rise , and from 1377 until the middle of the 1390s the Phelps Brown index shows a markedly higher level of real wages . |
| 17 | Now back at Jan Smuts Airport , X-Ray Foxtrot may well have flown for the second time in civvies by the time these words are read . |
| 18 | Below that there were the texts of very bad but sincere poems published in newspapers of the time by worker poets in honour of Stalin and Gottwald . |
| 19 | The six-storey warehouses were designed by Telford to stand by the water 's edge so that goods could be moved by crane straight from ship to warehouse without the double handling usual in docks of the time . |
| 20 | This important proviso must be borne in mind , not just in the context of descriptions used in this report , but when considering the various descriptions used in documents of the time . |
| 21 | Anyway , I 'd been staying with them in darkest Kensington , at Mr Gibbon 's very grand , three-storeyed town-house in Ascot Square , just off Addison Road , and working at a branch of Mondo-Food on Victoria Street ( they were trying a new line in Haggisburgers at the time and the manager thought my accent would help shift them . |
| 22 | References to Ceylon cricket in journals of the time were like the entry for ‘ snakes ’ in the legendary Irish encyclopedia : ‘ There are no snakes in Ireland . ’ |
| 23 | Such a split in self-perception is , I think , more likely to occur in girls than in boys at the time of puberty because the physiological changes which a boy undergoes are likely to be treated as marks of manhood , whereas what happens to a girl is more likely not to be mentioned , although in many ways the signs of her having reached puberty are more obviously visible . |
| 24 | It is also because it is a well-written , intensely moving story which shows that MPs can and do achieve things , that true love can and does exist , and which restores one 's faith in politicians at a time such restoration is badly needed . |