Example sentences of "in [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when you want to put in highlights at the end of your painting , the paint will tend to sink in each time you put on a pale colour if the paper is still damp . |
| 2 | These continuous blasts may last for several hours , and in that time they eject large volumes of ash , which is always new magmatic material , rather than shattered bits and pieces of old rock . |
| 3 | In that time they saw no movement , no living or dead person , no sign of violence ; nothing , but the ordered emptiness of a darkened and dead ship . |
| 4 | In that time they were totally isolated from any contact with their parents , or with anyone else they knew or who cared about them . |
| 5 | In that time they 'd sealed off the room and the hotel . |
| 6 | In that time they carried two and a half thousand tonnes of food and medical supplies saving countless lives . |
| 7 | In that time they have built up a force of one hundred and fifty vehicles and three hundred and forty staff . |
| 8 | ‘ Career breaks would enable women to choose to take five , six or seven years out to have their families but in that time they would be kept in touch , ’ said Miss Armstrong . |
| 9 | If they can not do it in that time they never will . |
| 10 | In that time we managed to talk to many broadcasters , primarily European ( which reflects where we see our main market potential and the fact that MIPCOM did seem to have greater numbers of European broadcasters than from any other significant territory ) . |
| 11 | It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’ |
| 12 | Actually , we were probably more technical than we are now , 'cos we had a year 's break between the two bands and in that time we lost all our talent , so we had to start again . |
| 13 | In that time we have found out how it is produced , how it is metabolized and , now that its receptor has been cloned , we are beginning to understand how it acts to release calcium . |
| 14 | In that time we had won 3 and drawn 2 . |
| 15 | The flares you fired thirty six years ago are still burning brightly today , for in that time we have not had a world war . |
| 16 | It 's now ten years since he set up Some Bizzare , and in that time he has enticed Matt Johnson , You 've Got Foetus On Your Breath , Psychic TV , Einstuerzende Neubauten and Berlin-born cabaret singer Anges Bernelle into his entourage . |
| 17 | In that time he has sat through more than 10,000 films.But he confesses that he would n't be seen dead in a cinema . |
| 18 | The whole performance had taken no more than a minute , but in that time he 'd succeeded in turning the Chamber 's table into a fish-market gutter . |
| 19 | In that time he has said 27 funeral masses for gang members who had died at gunpoint . |
| 20 | It is nineteen months since Richard Ryder was appointed Government Chief Whip and in that time he has risen to become John Major 's right-hand man . |
| 21 | In that time he has put unemployment up by nearly 1 million , so he can offer us no lectures on the subject of unemployment . |
| 22 | The craft has been his hobby for the past years , and in that time he has seen it grow immensely in popularity . |
| 23 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |
| 24 | But in that time he was credited with the discovery of three rarities the spring gentian , the mountain avens and the bog orchid , which was then lost again and only recently rediscovered . |
| 25 | In that time he had performed group sex with his millionaire businessmen , turned on sex starved women who have never had an orgasm |
| 26 | Each exercise only lasts 15 seconds , and in that time you must complete as many repetitions as possible . |
| 27 | In that time you rehearse every skill you need to skipper a small cruiser in flotilla in Greece . |
| 28 | And in that time you were in receipt of benefit were you ? |
| 29 | And in that time you see , the steamer did n't come so often . |
| 30 | twenty , fifteen , whatever years , whatever years , and in that time you 've got to be pretty sure that you can do that |