Example sentences of "in the [adj] time of " in BNC.

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1 Last year he soloed the Eiger nordwand direct in the amazing time of 26 hours — the first ascent took three months !
2 In the dark time of the Sundering when the Dark Elves broke with the people of Ulthuan Tiranoc suffered grievously .
3 ‘ But he was only beaten by four lengths in the fastest time of the night . ’
4 It was startling to discover that a race which was identifiably mutant had laws for the suppression of mutations , and he guessed that the origin of cause and principle alike lay somewhere in the lost time of the isolation of Tarvaras from the Empire .
5 As described by Girdwood , in the terrible time of menstruation , the inner rupture and tearing have to be transcended by female calm and restraint .
6 New Level , track record holder at Sunderland and Brough Park , clocked a respectable 29.19 sec ( -10 ) winning his heat by 1 5 lengths , while Pond Pavarotti only just scraped through in the faster time of 29.15 , beaten 6 9 lengths by another North-East dog , Capricorn Note , which was also trained until recently by Williams .
7 Warwick , 38 , and a veteran of 131 Grands Prix , won the world sportscar championship with Peugeot this year and has been itching for a chance to get back in the big time of Formula One .
8 You scoff at me and my ‘ one ’ man friend , you who have so many , but dear girl I have learnt more in the short time of my friendship with Edward , more of the world , of men as distinct from women , and man as an individual than in all my life I have learnt before .
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