Example sentences of "in the [noun] [unc] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | These had been made by the institution 's carpenter in the guardians ' time , and at their expense . |
| 2 | It was the custom at that time that when a worker married he was allowed to make himself a chair in the company 's time ; this was called a ‘ marriage chair ’ . |
| 3 | So whatever duty you were on — morning duty , that was all right , it was in the firm 's time , but if you were on afternoon duty , you would have to attend court and maybe go straight on afternoon duty . |
| 4 | Only the pain was getting rather tedious and Meg insisted that I had it done now before I retired , on the theory I suppose , that better in the Government 's time than my own . " |
| 5 | Three years later the TUC attitude to black workers , and more specifically black women workers , was shown by its lack of action on such simple and bland recommendations ( from the Camden Council for Community Relations ) as that the trade union movement should press for compulsory language training at work ( ie. in the employer 's time , not after hours ) or co-operate ‘ more positively ’ in agreeing to English classes where the management has taken the initiative , or that there should be ‘ more positive participation in supporting any industrial action taken by minority group workers in their fight to achieve equal opportunity ’ . |
| 6 | The gyro-compass was delayed because precision ball bearings were not available and the self-winding watch because no British watch industry existed in the inventor 's time . |
| 7 | In the author 's time , there was always a queue in front of the TOPIC screen at Harvard , although many dealers did n't know how to work its controls . |