Example sentences of "the [noun] time [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 And then of course at er the time of the lambing time you had to go out and help with the lambing time , you know , to help the shepherds with If he 'd a weakling lamb you 'd always to bring it in the house and then feed it in a bottle .
2 My father come to see me at one holiday and the Easter time he see something happen and they did n't like him and cos all my as cabin boy .
3 Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment .
4 The deeper excavations produced the first complete fossil Bradyodont ( broadtoothed ) Ratfish to be found in Britain and for the fist time it was possible to see how five separately named fossil fragments previously supposed to belong to five different creatures actually fitted together like a jigsaw to form one .
5 In January 1941 , the local newspaper carried a description of the fires of London reflected in the southern sky , and in the same issue of the Bedfordshire Times it was reported that a member of the Area Guardians Committee had stated that a number of men employed as labourers on government works were being lodged at the Public Assistance Institution as casuals .
6 In the winter time they 'd come out on a Monday morning and came back on Tuesday from Kirkwall .
7 But they had for the winter time they their houses to go to .
8 And in the winter time we used to love to linger in the bakehouse coming home cos it was so warm .
9 So that in the winter time you put on a a coal fire .
10 For all his eagerness , when he came to the testing time he hesitated to touch , and two or three times poised his hands over the book , only to withdraw them again from contact .
11 Some times in the day time you can see the moon especially if it 's on a particularly bright day .
12 The moon comes up during the day time it 's up in the day time it sets during the day time .
13 The moon comes up during the day time it 's up in the day time it sets during the day time .
14 Had it been in the day time I 'm sure there would have been lives lost for they would n't have stayed in to seen their stuff go under .
15 Good neighbours will always help out both with advice and equipment , and at the game time you will be learning about the characteristics of your land and how best to work it .
16 Not only did he tell me all the train times I needed to know ( without so much as a sigh ) , he also found out how I might get from Elstree station to the BBC studios .
17 Two new acts had come into the show and they needed all the orchestra time they could get before going into Scranton .
18 It has been argued that the space time we inhabit is a Riemann space , and that locally space–time in free fall is the space time of special relativity .
19 I once played James ‘ Rocky ’ Mountain of the FBI in a ‘ Children 's Hour ’ programme , and when I saw my name in the Radio Times I just stared at it for ages .
20 Is that the Radio Times you 've read ?
21 ( iii ) for the lesson time you have .
22 It 's a bit fourth-form biology , but then you were a little fourth-form biology yourself the inst time I saw you .
23 As long as the men time I mean , perhaps it would take sixty men working for half an hour .
24 And then the summer time they come out on a Monday morning and gone back at on Monday night .
25 If you visit during the summer time it closes an hour later — at 6pm .
26 And then after the hay time it was er wearing on to harvest time .
27 By 1960 the average trade-in period of American cars was just over two years while in the London Times you could read an essay on the heartbreak of selling your loved and familiar car .
28 In order to investigate the effect of different phospholipids on cholesterol solubility and the nucleation time we chose three synthetic phospholipids with an identical fatty acid composition but different head groups ( see methods ) .
29 Initially the king was unsympathetic to Hopton 's petition , claiming that at the material time he had not been acting as a justice owing to a bureaucratic muddle over his appointment , but by December 1290 he had agreed that the money Hopton had already paid towards his fine should count instead towards a fine he had made to secure the wardship of the lands of his late wife .
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