Example sentences of "time [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evenings represent maximum temptation for most slimmers , although around four o'clock in the afternoon , when the children come home from school , can be the worst time for many mothers who may be waiting until mid evening to dine with their husbands . |
| 2 | It 's the first time for 11 years they 've reached the final stages . |
| 3 | Some time during those years I remember thinking it offensive that all the people ‘ up front ’ in black were male . |
| 4 | When I saw Ben 's winning time of 9.83 seconds I was totally amazed . |
| 5 | It was certainly significant to the next stage of Nicholson 's career , and indeed what was happening in Hollywood itself at a time of changing tastes which made it almost impossible to predict what next year 's cinema audience would go into raptures about . |
| 6 | It was as if all the stifled rebellion on which the great flat and heavy city had pressed with its pompous facades since the time of those artisans whom Peter the Great had sent to perish in building it in the swamp , had boiled up in a single night . |
| 7 | At the time of these calculations there was just 5 GW of nuclear power in commercial operation in this country . |
| 8 | Standardisation needs to take place at another level as well ; this time amongst computer-using historians who are willing to attempt collective decisions about what information should be encoded in a machine-readable document and about how encoding decisions should be recorded for posterity and secondary analyses . |
| 9 | The area of ground selected was described somewhat imprecisely as : ‘ All that piece of ground situate north of Fig Lane [ now Crowndale Road ] St Pancras extending northwards from thence 650 feet on average abutting Eastwards on the Church path leading to Kentish Town and is in a parallel breadth 270 feet abutting Westward on other Ground intended and agreed to be used as Garden Ground by the said Messrs. Kirkman and Hendy or the Undertenants and no buildings to be erected thereon which shall raise more than 12 feet above the present surface and nearer than 80 feet to the ground hereby lett and that they will reserve a Street or way 60 feet wide at the least at the northern extremity of the said ground and that the said Messrs. Kirkman and Hendy do engage to lett to the Veterinary College a piece or any part of their ground at any time within twelve months which they the College shall determine upon a ranging line with the north extremity of the piece already described at and after the rate of £30 per acre nett which are the same terms as the ground described and mentioned are lett at and also at and upon the same reservation of the pepper corn Rent . ’ |
| 10 | For the first time in 11 years you can get nearly two dollars for every £ because the American dollar is so weak . |
| 11 | DEC said that for the first time in six quarters it generated positive cash flow from operations and investments , even with restructuring activities . |
| 12 | Early on a wet Sunday morning outside Yaroslavl station , in the centre of Moscow , my journey was complete and for the first time in 10 days I was alone . |
| 13 | Frank 's departure was a relief in many ways : for the first time in two years someone from our group had gone home ; Frank would now be free from fear while Brian and I could carry on together . |
| 14 | ‘ For the second time in two days I 'm hearing the usually benevolent lioness growl , ’ she said . |
| 15 | For the second time in two days she had been bought and sold . |
| 16 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
| 17 | It was the fourth time in five years she had been injured in the line of duty . |
| 18 | I 've done it five , this is the first time in five years I 've had New Year 's Eve off . |
| 19 | For the first time in many years there is hope that by means of the NHS and Community Care Act of 1990 , imperfect and incomplete though it may be , the fundamental organizational and financial changes needed to foster good community care have been made . |
| 20 | For the first time in many months she contemplated the uncontemplatable , and thought that it might not be so with him , even though her heart began to thud uncomfortably at the very idea . |
| 21 | It 's the third time in 2 years his house has been raided and the second in the space of a week . |
| 22 | This is the first time in 20 years I have felt any hope . ’ |
| 23 | It was held that property in the incomplete ship passed on payment of the first instalment but that no property passed at that time in some materials which were Lying in the ship yard and might be used in the ship 's construction . |
| 24 | If you are w going to work part time or full time in most cases there would be a separate coding for it , in this particular example it 's an employment where they do n't operate pay as you earn , i if , use my old phrase no longer applicable I suppose , a corner shop . |
| 25 | Suppose , for example , you have a so-called extraverted personality , this means that for most of the time in most situations you will tend to think , feel and behave in outward going ways . |
| 26 | The offices are frequently used for functions , but for the first time in three months there were no special events on Friday . |
| 27 | For the second time in three months he heard the battering sound of hobnailed boots climbing the wooden stairs to fetch a body . |
| 28 | This time in three weeks it will all be over , we 'll all be sat there thinking well was it bloody worth it , all that hard work money and rushing about , is it worth it ? |
| 29 | this one was the biggest and best in a long while … for the first time in 30 years it was open to professionals as well as amateurs and drew in two former world champions in Tony Doyle and Danny Clark and three Milk Race winners in … |
| 30 | ‘ That 's the second time in twenty-four hours I 've had a swim in that damned water . |