Example sentences of "but [prep] [adj] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only three years since she took up painting dogs as a profession , but in that short time she has been kept constantly in work . |
| 2 | Coleridge 's first meeting with Tom Poole lasted less than a day , but in that short time Coleridge was expansive both on the subject of himself and his plans for the future . |
| 3 | Well , you might want to , but at this autumnal time of year you do n't sink down onto cold pebbles making love in the starlight , unless you 're carrying a groundsheet . |
| 4 | Previous attempts to do this had always foundered on the fact that the fun usually resulted pretty soon in procreation but at this very time field trials of the contraceptive pill were taking place which would soon make the division practical and permanent for the first time in history . |
| 5 | I got very involved in drugs later because I was nursing a broken head and a broken heart , but at this particular time , 1974 , I was not sophisticated about drugs . |
| 6 | But at this particular time we are here to support and assist in communication . ’ |
| 7 | But at any other time it 's the end of your turn . |
| 8 | A person may be resident in more than one country but at any given time he/she can only be domiciled in one . |
| 9 | But at some future time they may decide they want to . |
| 10 | He introduces Rosanna Spearman , who , at the time four months before was a resident of the Reformatory , but at some previous time to that , Rosanna Spearman had been a thief . |