Example sentences of "time in [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At other times in vacations he spent weeks doing hard reading in the library of Cambridge University and got good talks with Hoskyns . |
| 2 | ‘ For the first time in ages they are tackling their problems in a sensible , mature manner without hysteria on one side and bloody-mindedness on the other . |
| 3 | It was the first time in ages he 'd demonstrated any kind of protectiveness towards her and she could n't help warming to that . |
| 4 | As all of us spend time in groups we should ask what we can do to improve group effectiveness . |
| 5 | When he gets to Iona , Johnson will walk for the second time in footsteps he does not yet know about , those of the man who caused the folklore — Columba was here . |
| 6 | For the first time in days she felt relaxed , rejuvenated even , as though the trees had somehow managed to impart new life into her . |
| 7 | For the first time in days she felt a stirring of life inside her . |
| 8 | For the first time in months she felt very sick again . |
| 9 | For the first time in months he was smiling . |
| 10 | She is never punctual or on time in arrangements she makes , and is arrogant , muddling and patronising in the extreme , and quite one of the most utterly tiresome busybody quasi do gooders style people I know , time-consuming , a total joke and nuisance , certainly no threat which is I think how John thinks I view her . |
| 11 | For the first time in years he felt what it was like to be a truly free man . |
| 12 | For the first time in years it is possible to walk around the whole building and experience it in three dimensions . |
| 13 | For the first time in years it was thick enough to bear . |
| 14 | For the first time in years she had someone she could rely on . |
| 15 | It 's the first time in years I 've been able to uncoil a little with Ali . |
| 16 | He realised that for the first time in weeks he had not thought of school , Murray , Fairbrother or the wretched affair of the letter . |
| 17 | He understood at once why she had not told him ; he remembered the glass of milk in the café , and for the first time in weeks he was able to weep . |