Example sentences of "in [adj] [det] time " in BNC.
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1 | The theme continued in the issue of the Architectural Review entitled ‘ Counter Attack ’ , published in 1957. this time highlighting those agents and elements exempted from aesthetic control . |
2 | They were afraid in that some time or another , some of the fellers on the corner had been locked up for obstruction . |
3 | Take away a sheet of paper or fold one in half each time to make the game more difficult . |
4 | But getting the chemical into the tank is now done in much less time , says Mr Doig , and the 2,500-litre sprayer can be filled with water and the contents of nine or ten packs of typical wheat herbicide in less than 15 minutes . |
5 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
6 | All this , of course , happened in much less time than it takes to explain . |
7 | In all that time she only twice took a break from shooting , when she went to Melbourne for her 21st birthday party — a $100,000 family-only blow out at the fashionable Red Eagle Hotel — and a week later for Jason Donovan 's birthday bash . |
8 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
9 | He described One journey to the source of the James River in 1738 in a letter to Collinson , ‘ … over and between the mountains in many very crooked turnings and windings ; in which I travelled 1,100 miles in five weeks , having rested but one day in all that time … |
10 | Even the dimmest goon is going to realize there 's something queer going on in all that time . |
11 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
12 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
13 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
14 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |
15 | And in all that time she 'd never heard from Jez , nor even from her parents . |
16 | Even so , two meagre sessions of firing practice in all that time were of little help in strengthening his nerve or stoking up his fighting spirit . |
17 | This is the first woman he 's been connected with in all that time . |
18 | We have been spinning coins together since I do n't know when , and in all that time ( if it is all that time ) I do n't suppose either of us was more than a couple of gold pieces up or down . |
19 | And his pretty face has n't changed in all that time . |
20 | But in all that time I 've never been completely sober . ’ |
21 | Ten , almost eleven years , have passed and I have no notion as to what I was doing in all that time . ’ |
22 | Working day at least in all that time I had entered or come out from that building and its reality had gone for me . |
23 | He left us for a glamorous Frenchwoman and he never even sent me a card in all that time . ’ |
24 | Sir John died seven years ago , but in all that time Lavinia has not increased Benedict 's allowance , as she might well have done , nor made any provision for his accommodation , other than saying that he might live at Merchiston Lodge if he chose . ’ |
25 | In all that time , humans must have seen us . |
26 | I 've supported Leeds since I was 5 and in all that time I 've never once wished Leeds would lose a game , ever . |
27 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
28 | ‘ So , ’ Trish said patiently , ‘ we left the Sala dell'Arte together , we bought gelati and gained a billion calories eating it , we came home , scrubbed the goo off our faces and plopped into our beds — and in all that time , you never said a word worth hearing . ’ |
29 | So fascinated has he become that he 's painted nothing else in all that time . |
30 | I have lived in Grey Street for over 30 years and we have never had a bus service in all that time , so when it was introduced last year everyone was delighted . |