Example sentences of "time in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was defeated only four times in a long career , ‘ retiring with a fortune of £70,000 , almost all of which was promptly lost for him ’ . |
| 2 | But that is nothing compared to the inflation that seems to have occurred in the early universe : an increase in size by a factor of at least a million million million million million times in a tiny fraction of a second . |
| 3 | The old armour is either worn away gradually , as in crocodiles , or it is shed at special times in a complete ‘ coat ’ , as in lizards and snakes . |
| 4 | But today he has looked at me two or three times in a certain way . " |
| 5 | she said innumerable times in a low solemn voice , ‘ What have I done ! ’ |
| 6 | But my mother 's image of my future had to be challenged : I was not to marry ; I would be her companion at all times in a perfect mother and daughter symbiosis ; with my teacher 's salary I would buy her a fridge and a washing machine and take care of her . |
| 7 | It is the unique experience of rail travellers on the Gotthard to glimpse the same , unmistakable baroque-domed village church three times in a few minutes as the train passes it at different levels above and below . |
| 8 | As Lou explains , the concoction is created in a shaker and stirred exactly 23 times in a counter-clockwise motion . |
| 9 | The demonstratives this , and that occur eight times in a connective function ( " sounds that note " ( 3 ) , " this pretext " ( 7 ) , etc ) , and personal pronouns are also heavily used ( 66–68 ) . |
| 10 | I had the misfortune of sharing a tent with a compulsive masturbator called Ollie , an unfortunate-looking fellow with rocking-horse nostrils and a pale green complexion , who claimed to have reached orgasm eight times in a single afternoon . |
| 11 | In April 1770 he was again arrested for debt , and this time wrote to an unknown friend : ‘ After being six times arrested : nine times in a spunging house ; and three times in the Fleet-prison , I am at least happily arrived at the King 's Bench [ Prison ] ’ . |
| 12 | We propose to make our quarterly call to read your meter five times in every six quarters . |
| 13 | Crowds of people and mountains of goods , departing and arriving scores upon scores of times in every four-and-twenty hours , produced a fermentation in the place that was always in action . |
| 14 | ‘ There is no bigger game than the Old Firm derby because it is the one that has survived with its importance intact at a time when playing each other four times in the Premier Division has devalued every other fixture . ’ |
| 15 | However , there have been times in the recent past when 50 per cent of the artists selling and succeeding in the USA have been British . |
| 16 | When newspaper owners ran into hard times in the 1960s , and tried to save money by introducing new printing technologies , the printers fought long and hard to preserve their jobs and status . |
| 17 | She had been over all this a thousand times in the real world , the world she privately thought of as the world of things . |
| 18 | Thomson 's son poured so much money into The Times in the vain effort to modernize it in the late 1970s that no one could blame him for wanting to sell it . |
| 19 | Three times in the latter part of September 1917 the Committee was warned by the union of the danger of delay in setting adequate and standard rates of wages for all seamen ; three times on the advice of the Liverpool Shipowners it temporised . |
| 20 | By restricting the right to vote to fully accepted church members , political power in Massachusetts was placed in the hands of the godly men who had led the expedition ; those who had joined the expedition merely in the hope of a better standard of living found their efforts justified by success because , despite some difficult times in the 1630s , the labouring population in the colony by the 1640s was fairly certainly more prosperous than they would have been if they had stayed in England , and about 20,000 people had settled in New England at a total cost of about £200,000 . |
| 21 | The Dutch club , who won the Champions ' Cup three times in the early Seventies , were banned yesterday for at least two years as a result of crowd trouble that caused the abandonment of their UEFA Cup match against Austria Vienna in Amsterdam nine days ago . |
| 22 | He still considered himself something of a failed journalist ( NME amongst others , had turned him down five times in the early years ) and he often expressed a desire to use his new found influence to move into spasmodic fits of journalese . |
| 23 | The silk trade itself had hit very hard times in the mid-1790s ; a contemporary ballad reflects its catastrophic decline : |
| 24 | The composition of the Crown 's ordinary revenue changed several times in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 25 | One of those under investigation , former Interior Minister Andras Benkei described the allegations as " rubbish " , but the Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet alleged that Carlos and members of his group had stayed in Hungary several times in the late 1970s and early 1980s and that leading communist officials had been aware of their presence . |
| 26 | Copper had trodden on me a couple of times in the stable , very uncharacteristically , and he also ran into a friend of mine while shying at something , as if she was n't there . |
| 27 | Keeper John Lukic was beaten three times in the second half and they now face a giant task in the second leg of this first round tie . |
| 28 | On the second day Smith was palpably out lbw but went on the score 42 ; Mujtaba was given out when the ball seemed to hit his boot ; and Gooch , I believe , should have been given out three times in the second innings . |
| 29 | If Lithuania had scored , as they should have done several times in the second half , maybe that would have shaken the Irish from their slumber . |
| 30 | Stand-in goalkeeper Graham Mitchell was only called into action three times in the second half , but on two of those occasions he was collecting the ball from the net behind him . |