Example sentences of "in very [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been cruelly used to put a most unhealthy fear of God into people , or in very recent times in this country to offer absurd explanations for a fire in a cathedral , to denigrate an outspoken bishop , or to hound homosexuals and those suffering from AIDS . |
| 2 | This relatively weak coalification is obviously due to an early ‘ Pre-Permian updoming ’ of the Westphalian and to a late subsidence in very recent times which caused a very young re-coalification that is not yet in equilibrium with the present depth and temperature . |
| 3 | This can often be difficult to determine as attitudes towards openly discussing sexual matters have changed only in very recent times . |
| 4 | Delhi may have been a relatively unsophisticated frontier town , a vast barracks-metropolis built to defend Islam 's boundary with the Mongols and Hindus , but it was still very much a land of opportunity : an ambitious Muslim could achieve great wealth and prominence there in very little time . |
| 5 | In very early times water and marshland covered much of the area . |
| 6 | It is probable that in very early times if his powers weakened a king would be ritually killed . |
| 7 | If you are up so bright and early we will be able to set off in very good time . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ In England the courts of justice are relieved from the unpleasant duty of dis-barring advocates in consequence of the power of calling to the Bar and dis-barring having been in very remote times delegated to the Inns of Court . |
| 9 | Well there were one or two that was a bit , got on their high horse , you know and say , It 's disgusting and that , but er I never did because er in cases like that I think there but for the grace of God , you know I I would n't condemn people , in those , we were living in very abnormal times you see . |
| 10 | Toby appeared at my elbow in very quick time — nobody was more expert than him at getting served quickly in a crowded bar — with an extra-large glass of Scotch and a mineral water for me , my habitual drink when I was working . |
| 11 | And you can , you can have that thing looking very very difficult , very , in very short time . |