Example sentences of "for [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a light frost covering the ground and much of the foliage , but it was a mild day for that time of the year . |
| 2 | The argument for seasonally adjusting monthly unemployment figures is that only then can the observer tell whether a given monthly increase in unemployment is the normal variation for that time of year or an unusual rise which policy-makers should be concerned about . |
| 3 | Well for that time of the year it was remarkable really . |
| 4 | Elisha was the man that God had equipped for that time in history , in that land , and for the specific needs of individual people around him . |
| 5 | It would n't have taken as Mr has pointed out , any cognizance of the fact that there 's difference for different times of the day , nor would it have taken any account of the fact that people would perceive the travel times and travel costs in different ways . |
| 6 | There was a ‘ Refuge Rota ’ pinned by the house telephone , with six different names filled in for different times in the week . |
| 7 | However , top management became aware that all of the work-force reductions , although necessary , were not attacking the basic problem : the organization had been designed for another time in history rather than for the competitive world in which it now lived . |
| 8 | He took the Board of Trade ‘ ticket ’ to command his own ships and he invented an instrument for computing time at sea . |
| 9 | It seems unlikely that there is sufficient demand for commercial time for advertising to take over completely from the TV licence system that finances the BBC : at £77 per household ( 1991–2 cost ) , the licence brings in approaching £1500 million , compared with total TV advertising expenditure in 1991 of £1974 million . |
| 10 | Now was the main race , a true International with 17 nations on the start line , something we have not seen in Britain for some time despite the fact that the entry was limited because of the following week 's World Sprint Championships which caused some potential entrants to opt out . |
| 11 | But the roadworks and contra-flow system are expected to be in place for some time during which drivers are urged to be extra careful . |
| 12 | A standard Northern Ireland training package has been in operation for some time including intensive urban and rural patrolling , riot control techniques , shooting at fleeting targets , powers of arrest , orders for opening fire , bomb and weapon recognition . |
| 13 | So far as education is concerned , it is known that the government has been concerned for some time about an alleged willingness on the part of some teachers to bring the question of homosexuality out into the open in a way that seeks to normalise it as a form of human relationship . |
| 14 | His mother had nagged him for some time about entering his lodger 's room . |
| 15 | Controversy continued for some time about the identity or otherwise of human and bovine tuberculosis , until the infecting organisms were shown clearly to belong to different species of the large genus Mycobacteria , most of which are harmless to man . |
| 16 | The pair chatted for some time about her work , then the conversation turned to his medical background . |
| 17 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 18 | Most current work concentrates on child sexual abuse , and SSMH has been concerned for some time about the vulnerability of adults with learning disabilities . |
| 19 | He talked for some time about a poet called Rimbo . |
| 20 | That confirms the point that I have been making to the House for some time about the international slow-down and international difficulties . |
| 21 | Local people there have been worried for some time about safety factors which affect the tunnel . |
| 22 | The national park has been concerned for some time about the volume of heavy lorries using roads through the park . |
| 23 | And even if a structural , timber can be dated , there is always the possibility that it was stored for some time between being felled and being used , or even that it was re-used timber salvaged from an earlier building . |
| 24 | Rumours have circulated Manchester for some time over Sharpe 's future and they intensified after he was sent home from pre-season training with what United described as a virus . |
| 25 | Before he had become involved with Sien he had used her for some time as a model . |
| 26 | ‘ With over 300 covers it was probably too big as a fish restaurant and while it stayed successful for some time as The Chicago Meatpackers , the area around it , in the West End of London , has changed in two major ways . |
| 27 | It was widely known , however , that China had been pressing for a Japanese imperial visit for some time as a means of marking a further stage in the country 's rehabilitation from the diplomatic isolation which had followed the Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 28 | Road pricing has been up for discussion for some time as a possible way of alleviating the high levels of traffic congestion in many city centres . |
| 29 | A VARIED selection of veteran and vintage aircraft have appeared on the register within the past few months and include the former Warbirds of Great Britain P–63A Kingcobra which has been on rebuild to flying condition at Duxford for some time for The Fighter Collection . |
| 30 | It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that let Windows applications run on Unix desktops . |