Example sentences of "in a [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ramifications of these doubts are reflected in a poll by Time magazine and CNN , which shows 53 per cent of voters do not think Mr Clinton is honest and trustworthy enough to be president ; 67 per cent think he would say anything to be elected president ; and 62 per cent say he is not someone they would be proud to have as president . |
| 2 | When therefore the amount produced ( in a unit of time ) is such that the demand price is greater than the supply price , then sellers receive more than is sufficient to make it worth their while to bring goods to market to that amount ; and there is at work an active force tending to increase the amount brought forward for sale . |
| 3 | When demand and supply are in equilibrium , the amount of the commodity which is being produced in a unit of time may be called the equilibrium-amount , and the price at which it is being sold may be called the equilibrium-price . |
| 4 | She was in fact very thin but had this huge wire frame around her ’ It turned out that she 'd been coming in a couple of times a week , stealing hundreds of pounds worth of clothes , hanging them on her frame then walking out . |
| 5 | I think he is security cos he 's been in a couple of times has n't he ? |
| 6 | He popped in a couple of times . |
| 7 | We 've been in a couple of times and I said that I wanted a chaise you see ooh I got this erm one for Victorian one it 's very nice , and lovely warm you know , the legs anyway it was one one thousand three hundred you see , so I thought , oh I said well I did n't wan na |
| 8 | but then again there , but you , you fire off the blank , that 's what triggers the laser sometimes if there 's been a lot of , we did , we did it in a couple of time see the old laser go , cor , its got very think red beam , its not like you see these big flashing great big bits of light like on Star Wars and stuff , well its not , its not suppose to hurt you its a very thin piercing beam , its well impressive . |
| 9 | ‘ I knew I was in a race against time so I set about altering the gear box myself . |
| 10 | Joyce Anderson , of Thornton Hough , said : ‘ We are not really in a race against time , the winners will be the party who come back with the fewest miles on their clock . |
| 11 | ‘ And at a time when we need the PA more than ever , with all those Eurocrats around and so many other pressures on the PA and the trade generally , we need people who will come forward and put in a bit of time . ’ |
| 12 | But they have to call in a vet from time to time , and it 's with those farmers that I think you 'll have most success , just so long as you keep your charges low . ’ |
| 13 | Whereas do situates the infinitive in a stretch of time in the past or non-past as something really existing or taking place in that time-stretch , the modals in ( 4 ) — ( 6 ) on the other hand situate the infinitive 's event merely as something which has certain chances of existing in the stretch of time which they express . |
| 14 | Dazzle features Simon Wright as hero Sam Galactic , with Cally Hatton as Dazzle , Greg Wright as Mr Speak , son of Spock , and the adventuring crew of the starship Sunburst I. The crew tours the universe and meet aliens like Slimy Swampers , Bolshi 's from the planet Red Star , and , in a flashback in time , meet nasty greasers from the '60s led by Sue Zuki . |
| 15 | But that 's where the manager 's a victim , trapped in a sort of time warp , waiting to find out if those Moores millions will ever be available again . |
| 16 | Did n't , did n't they mean that as in a period of time they 'd been stuck in the Ark . |
| 17 | At that standard the energy saved by running in a shoe at times weighing under 150g , can significantly alter the outcome of the race . |
| 18 | Throughout history , otherwise unmarked minuets have been written in a number of time signatures , including 3/4 , 6/8 and 3/8 . |
| 19 | Living to live in a world of time beyond me ; let me |
| 20 | Our language arises automatically from our ability to perceive our place in a world of time and space and — most importantly — to consider the implications of particular actions , that is , the faculties of foresight and discrimination . |
| 21 | First , Clary did appear without make-up in a photograph in Time Out a few years ago . |
| 22 | ‘ The officials at Preston have been nothing but encouraging and in the early days the coaching staff put in a lot of time to make up for my lack of experience . |
| 23 | Well he does , he goes in on Saturdays very often , he goes in on Sundays very often , you know , goes up to have a look at a site or goes into the office to look over something in peace without the phone ringing all that 's sort of thing , he puts in a lot of time that 's not strictly accounted for , Gerry did , I did as a teacher , but then we were well paid . |
| 24 | Some small groups within lineages might build a shrine at the burial place of a revered grandfather , call him sidi ( lord ) , and visit the shrine in a group from time to time . |
| 25 | And when words can manage something of this , and manage it in a moment in time , and in that same moment make out of it all the vital signature of a human being — not of an atom , or of a geometrical diagram , or a heap of lenses — but a human being , we call it poetry . |