Example sentences of "time [prep] [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had little time for more than a quick glance round the room . |
| 2 | But there was no time to admire the view , no time for more than a swift impression of airiness and light , of deep , comfortable furniture in maize-coloured linen , before she closed the door quickly . |
| 3 | That image of things would dominate men 's notions of space and time for more than a century . |
| 4 | I 've always been too busy building up my business to spare time for more than a few brief affairs . ’ |
| 5 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 6 | His overcrowded programme allowed no time for more than the barest formalities between himself and Merrill , and his manner was coolly polite — a situation for which , she told herself , she was profoundly grateful . |
| 7 | The congregation here was formed some time after 1690 though the present church building only dates from 1879 . |
| 8 | A very sticky variety clings to each new copy for an average time of more than an hour before it finally breaks free and the process can begin again . |
| 9 | If they were fed in manually , this would imply exactly the kind of task objected to by the unions — namely , a task paced by the automatic welder and with a cycle time of less than a minute . |
| 10 | Looking after the ‘ tribe ’ is the number one priority , but Mary was always looking at ways of continuing her artistic leanings and it was to heraldry that she returned , this time with more than a hint of aviation to it ! |
| 11 | It was ironical that Adam , who was the owner of that big house and all that land and the contents of the house , nevertheless went down to Nunes the second time with less than a fiver in his pocket . |
| 12 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 13 | ‘ This all needed careful sorting , particularly the contents of the deed boxes , and with little space available , it was some time in 1925 before the job was complete . |
| 14 | ENGLAND have two squash players in the world 's top seven for the first time in more than a decade . |
| 15 | Manager Kevin Keegan was delighted by Kristensen 's form as the 28-year-old tasted 90 minutes of first-team action for the first time in more than a year . |
| 16 | Within a few months , for the first time in more than a decade , observers began to detect a thaw in Franco-Soviet relations . |
| 17 | Boris Yeltsin 's planned visit to Japan was postponed , for the second time in less than a year . |
| 18 | It seemed no time at all until the last model , wearing a mauve duchesse evening dress called ‘ Tour d'Eiffel ’ , had swished back through the gold curtain and Paul de Levantiére was standing to acknowledge the enthusiastic applause . |
| 19 | One particularly notable vessel which he designed was the Stirling Castle , famed for her speed , for example , when in 1882 she brought home a cargo of 6,000 tons of China tea from Hankow in twenty-eight days , beating the previous best time by more than a week . |