Example sentences of "for [adj] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , for half the time but twice the luxury , they could go in June with Airtours for seven nights to the Hotel Magaluf near Palma in Mallorca , via Stansted , for £976 . |
| 2 | Until a few years ago , married women had to have paid full NI contributions for half the time they were married and working to get anything at all in their own right . |
| 3 | Government backbenchers are expected to be present at all stages and though they are entitled to speak for half the time available on the floor of the House , in committee they are expected neither to speak nor to move amendments but simply to keep voting for the government 's proposals . |
| 4 | This might arise where , during one hour in which the child died , each parent was alone with the child for half the time . |
| 5 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll talk to you for all the time we 're on this train . |
| 7 | It does not seem a great return for all the time and money expended . |
| 8 | For all the time and money spent on developing coproductions , public and private sector companies and corporations are often reluctant to import from their neighbours . |
| 9 | For all the time that we spend doing it — about one third of our lives — we have very little natural insight into the sleeping process . |
| 10 | And they would keep for all the time . |
| 11 | This week for 24 hours they 're refusing to cook , shop or even help the kids with their homework because , they say , they should get a regular Government wage for all the time and effort they put into the home . |
| 12 | When she was most irritated by Caro 's holier-than-thou , most nearly offended by how stupid/insensitive Caro must think her , with her ‘ what a world you live in ’ , and was thinking ‘ How young , how predictable , how limited you are , ’ came the twist in the conversation , the unexpected note , that looking back along the line of the conversation , was the note Caro had been heading for all the time . |
| 13 | for all the time that we have to sit behind you when we 're trying to drive around blowing our horns going get out the way . |
| 14 | I would prefer that we accepted that Stella 's original notes defines the responsibility for forms literally for all the time . |
| 15 | It just makes me feel , I just ca n't I 've wo worked out that I ca n't cope with this frenzying lark for all the time , I have to have space to do my pottering . |