Example sentences of "the [adj -est] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was the worst possible time to be away from the office , but — ’ |
| 2 | He told himself that it was late , the end of a busy day , the worst possible time for rational argument . |
| 3 | The latest surge in the yen has come at the worst possible time for many Japanese companies , especially exporters . |
| 4 | ‘ It was discovered I 'd had an acute infection for two or three months , ’ she says , ‘ which meant I was ill when I became pregnant in November — the worst possible time for a developing foetus . |
| 5 | This is the worst possible time in history to die . |
| 6 | Smith absented himself for the shortest possible time during the annual 1st Glasgow Company camp at Tighnabruaich in July 1909 to receive his knighthood in London . |
| 7 | Any attempt to reward performance job by job should be viewed with caution as , with the exception of commercial developments , where time and money are interrelated , it is usually impossible to complete a job successfully by spending the shortest possible time on it . |
| 8 | Even if the tests begin immediately , the earliest possible time for an abortion would be 19–20 weeks , but this would leave no time for the tests and termination to be organised , or for the parents to discuss the matter at any length . |
| 9 | ‘ Immediately ’ is defined ( at this stage ) as the earliest possible time on the first working day of absence . |
| 10 | This proposed approach to design is thus one in which the constraints or functional attributes are established at the earliest possible time in order to allow the design to be monitored . |
| 11 | Errors which occur in the main archive of dictionary text , through any circumstance , will be repaired at the earliest convenient time without displacing lexicographer activities . |
| 12 | I raced in Ghent against the Canadian Desai Williams and lost over 60 metres , but I beat the American record holder James Butler at 200 metres with 20.55 seconds , the fastest indoor time in the world that year . |
| 13 | Not necessarily in the fastest possible time of 30 generations , but very fast , nevertheless . |
| 14 | the most important time aspect of a planation surface is from the latest possible time of initiation of the cycle that produced it to the earliest possible time that it ceased being shaped ( i.e. its terminal date ) because of either burial or uplift ; |
| 15 | At present the latest permissible time for legal abortion is 28 weeks , but by 20 weeks , the foetus is well formed , and currently doctors and gynaecologists are moving towards the idea of cutting the legal limit for termination from 28 to 24 weeks . |