Example sentences of "in [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It estimates that in that time it cut its carbon dioxide emissions by more than 20 per cent . |
| 32 | Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second . |
| 33 | The river has been cutting downwards for five million years and more , and in that time it has laid bare rocks spanning half of the earth 's history . |
| 34 | In that time it has awarded almost 30,000 at various levels , while staff have published over 12,000 books or research articles , and given almost 10,000 papers at conferences . |
| 35 | In that time it has more than doubled in value . |
| 36 | In that time she had to out-glare three Renaults , four Cortinas and a Volkswagen . |
| 37 | On the other hand , the mere fact that in that time she has overtaken it most one of some 20 countries that outranked her in per capita terms is enough to establish that her record is less than spectacular . |
| 38 | JOAN Bassett has been the conductor of the Hadley Court Singers for over eight years and in that time she has welded this group of 45 singers based at Haddington into a flexible corporate whole motivated at all times by her own perceptive musicianship . |
| 39 | And in that time I really only ever had one proper job and that was for two weeks . |
| 40 | I lasted eighteen months before packing it in , and in that time I saw a lot of disappointed people . |
| 41 | In that time I had made some friends , gained much self-confidence , and finally lost my hatred of the Reeds . |
| 42 | We 've spent twenty-four hours together and in that time I 've been bitten by bugs in a hooker 's bed , tied up a guy with no legs and stolen his wheelchair , stayed cooped up in a train for twelve hours with an attractive man and behaved like a virgin . |
| 43 | In that time I followed the course of the massive city walls which over the centuries had sustained so many assaults before falling at last to the Turkish onslaught . |
| 44 | And in that time I became very close to the bunch of desperadoes I 'd first flown out with . |
| 45 | We flew for an hour and in that time I completed a reel of film in my camera . |
| 46 | I was with him constantly for a whole year and in that time I never saw him with anyone , man or woman . |
| 47 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 48 | So I usually leave a er sheet of paper on the table and if you 're , if you 're interested in getting a free brochure what I shall do at the end of the course is to send this off er together with one of the cards that they let me have and er in due time you 'll get a free Saga magazine . |
| 49 | In another time it would have been a delight , the twenty-minute trip along the craggy shore , the petrol motor almost purring . |
| 50 | In this time you will be reduced as far as possible to walking cannon fodder and rushed away to some hell hole . |
| 51 | In this time it seems that all other areas of the Lakes have had a new guide , and some of them two . |
| 52 | A primitive shading is found on a few vases of the generation before , by the Brygos Painter for instance to indicate the roundness of shields ; and in this time it appears , very sparingly , both in red-figure and on another class of Attic vase which we have not yet considered , those with a white slip . |
| 53 | In this time it became clear that the military and state security forces were not all solidly behind the coup , especially in the face of popular resistance , with Russian Federation ( RSFSR ) President Boris Yeltsin setting himself at the head of protesters apparently willing to fight for the new freedoms brought about by the reforms of perestroika . |
| 54 | Now , I am so thankful I stayed longer , for in this time I had an unforgettable experience . |
| 55 | In this time I have noted the steady increase of people pursuing this activity and an equally heavy resistance to the sport by landowners and fishing groups . |
| 56 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 57 | Over the wall , overlooking Kingsdale , is a tight concentration of potholes , some of great depth , but if Whernside 's summit is to be reached in good time they must be considered out of bounds . |
| 58 | In good time they shall . |
| 59 | All in good time you will have a bed partner and let me tell you , you will care for her far more than you ever could for this one . |
| 60 | I know what that man owes to Harry , and what to me , and I have kept the account , and in good time I shall take what is due . |