Example sentences of "for [art] [adj] time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dale , perhaps for the only time in its short life , was full . |
| 2 | The margin of 425 runs was the largest runs victory West Indies have had over England , and for the only time in Test cricket Extras had a bigger match aggregate ( 44 ) than any batsman . |
| 3 | It was the verbal savagery of his pre-war outbursts in the streets of Shoreditch and Pimlico that made him a public danger for the only time in his life . |
| 4 | Thus it transpired , for the only time in the BBC 's history , that the Design Department was asked to undertake the responsibility and the budgets for all visual effects , special props , models , etc. , needed for the television series . |
| 5 | This sense of self-doubt also had some part in convincing Conservative leaders that neither Britain nor western society could survive another trauma of the seriousness of the First World War and thus , for the only time in history , the party abandoned its usual reliance on strong defences and the balance of power in Europe , adopting a policy towards Nazi Germany known as appeasement . |
| 6 | First , for the only time in his Gospel , he calls them apostles . |
| 7 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 8 | Then he attacked with venom and had Thornton looking troubled for the only time in the fight . |
| 9 | Flanagan began the big Bangor revival , winning the Ulster Cup and taking the club into Europe for the only time in their history as League runners-up two years ago . |
| 10 | For the only time in any of her decorations Walker has made some of the figures quite distinctly male — the clearest being a nude figure in a pose which is repeated in reverse on either side of the central action , at the head of the crowd . |
| 11 | For the only time in his career ( with the arguable exception of the months between May 1945 and January 1946 ) de Gaulle was not confronted by an all-consuming national or international crisis . |
| 12 | X. Ray 's unshowy steadiness was right for the low time in which he newly found himself — he could put the fire out . |
| 13 | Certainly , a residence requirement which consisted of a requirement to have resided for a certain time in the country before a self-employed occupation could be taken up would involve covert discrimination , because it would be satisfied virtually automatically by nationals and would therefore affect nationals of other member states , if not exclusively , at least chiefly . |
| 14 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 15 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 16 | OIL RICH beats filthy rich every time , but after several years of battling to remain buoyant in the remorseless wake of the Maktoums , Robert Sangster clambered back on to terra firma with his most significant win for a long time in Saturday 's Hoover Fillies ' Mile at Ascot . |
| 17 | They sat for a long time in silence watching the Atlantic crash down on the empty shore . |
| 18 | He deliberated for a long time in front of the pad , and then suddenly rose and put it away without writing anything . |
| 19 | ‘ People always want to see how the Führer looks , whether he is serious or laughing , ’ and had expressed disappointment that they had not even heard his voice for a long time in the newsreels , for , as one report put it , ‘ the words of the Führer are gospel for the people ’ . |
| 20 | The Commission on Analytical Nomenclature of IUPAC has been active for a long time in establishing nomenclature for chromatography . |
| 21 | But the old Jew sat for a long time in silence as the wind and rain in the darkness outside lashed at the windows of Damiani 's old home . |
| 22 | Also , the slow course of the disease implied that any drug would have to be given for a long time in order to be effective and so would have to be particularly harmless to patients . |
| 23 | I stood for a long time in a telephone box just to keep out of the slicing rain . |
| 24 | But although I played lead for a long time in the group I never cite lead players like Clapton or Beck . |
| 25 | He must have worked for a long time in the garage . |
| 26 | There were two men apart from the one with the rifle and she heard them quarrelling for a long time in another room . ’ |
| 27 | A referee 's mistake lost them the match against Auckland and they were in with a chance for a long time in the Test — there was only one — before being beaten 11–3 . |
| 28 | This view remained dominant for a long time in sociology , but more recently other sociologists have become reluctant to view people as happy robots , acting out predetermined roles . |
| 29 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 30 | The Tynedale Fenwicks and the Liddesdale Elliots were involved for a long time in a savage , unyielding feud ; and the Armstrongs , among their many clashes , quarrelled simultaneously with the Scottish Turnbulls and Johnstones and with the English Bells , while the Bells were also feuding with the English Grahams . |