Example sentences of "they [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 Big firms have long ago weaned themselves off their dependence on the banks who , in the 1960s and 1970s , supported them through thin times and thick .
2 Sheep would not safely graze nor would spring lambs nor calves ; the average farmer could hardly be expected to stock them for old times ' sake .
3 Fermanagh trailed by two goals at three quarter time but levelled the game again to 12–12 to take them into extra time , and stole the extra goal needed for victory on the whistle winning 16–15 to give them the trophy for the second year .
4 Employment Action is a scheme that will take people off the dole queue and put them into full time work for benefit plus ten pounds .
5 What is new , according to DEC consultant engineer Lawrence Stewart , is that hardware now has the horse-power to drive them in real time .
6 What is new , according to DEC consultant engineer Lawrence Stewart , is that hardware now has the horse-power to drive them in real time .
7 But it is easier to show that the Aquitanians ' identity as a people was imposed on them rather than felt by them in Carolingian times .
8 Now unless we think that dreams can unravel very fast in the mind , much faster , and there is some evidence that that 's true actually , that dreams can in fact happen quicker than you could think of them in conscious time .
9 Having built up the reserves , it is prepared to use them in difficult times , and that is the right thing to do .
10 The third was inhabited by small people , half a dozen of them at various times ; of whom Pat Billon , 2-foot 10-inch ( 85-cm ) tall , became the best known and most publicized .
11 You had to wear them at certain times .
12 I , I 'm going to have to have more than one meeting and let people , say you 've got to come to one or the other and have them at different times during the week .
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