Example sentences of "the [adj] time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total time in work could be raised to four days for someone aged between fifteen and sixteen . |
| 2 | Having decided to leave out Phillip DeFreitas for the 15th time in a start-stop career , Dexter and Co had precious few alternatives to consider . |
| 3 | X. Ray 's unshowy steadiness was right for the low time in which he newly found himself — he could put the fire out . |
| 4 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 5 | The trend towards milder winters is beginning to concern horticulturists. many trees need lengthy cold spells if they are to open their buds at the right time in spring , and research on the Continent confirms that apple trees will be confused by the changing climate . |
| 6 | Yet on the other hand , for the counsellor to be too conscious of saying the right thing at the right time in every situation represents a state of mind that can only hamper the counselling process . |
| 7 | ‘ It is the right time in IBM 's business transformation to identify new leadership , ’ Akers said . |
| 8 | Good advertising communicates the right message to the right people at the right time in a way that will interest or amuse them , but above all make them want to buy the product , service , or even " idea " . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 10 | He was fortunate in that he had the right doctor at the right time in the right so hospital |
| 11 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 12 | Our redfaced friend , said the policeman , chose the wrong time in the wrong town to go for a drunken walkabout in the road . |
| 13 | ‘ My husband was a very good poet , as you know , but he was unlucky , one of those people who are always in the wrong place at the wrong time in his career . |
| 14 | He will spend almost the entire time in an isolation cubicle within the unit 's small ward until the new bone marrow becomes effective . |
| 15 | Rhys will spend almost the entire time in an isolation cubicle within the unit 's small ward until the new bone marrow becomes effective . |
| 16 | The bad news is that your pass is for today and Friday , and Lil wo n't allow you to make up the lost time in the field . |
| 17 | But he would have preferred to spend the extra time in bed none the less . |
| 18 | For the second time in his life the icy fingers of death pierced his innermost self . |
| 19 | As expected , Martina , fresh from victory in the Dow Classic in Birmingham , proceeded unharmed to the final , defeating Amanda Coetzer and Brenda Schulz for the second time in a week , Mary Joe Fernandez , and Heather Ludloff , all in straight sets . |
| 20 | He did this after he had cut the grooves for the second time in the stretchers . |
| 21 | It was the second time in 24 hours that they had acted to stop a party in the county . |
| 22 | He had just won the competitive Cambridgeshire Handicap for the second time in three years . |
| 23 | It was the second time in successive World Cup ties that Leighton had let down his colleagues . |
| 24 | It was a foregone conclusion that Haslam would for the second time in his career find himself ‘ pitch-forked ’ into a retrenchment programme . |
| 25 | Brian Little has become the first man to win the Vauxhall Conference manager of the month award , worth £250 , for the second time in succession , for Darlington 's unbeaten run throughout October . |
| 26 | JANSHER KHAN narrowly avoided a ban but was fined for the second time in six weeks by the International Squash Players Association yesterday — and lost ranking points which may cost him his world No.1 spot . |
| 27 | Not a snap or a twang , but the hamstring had gone for the second time in successive matches . |
| 28 | CAMBRIDGE survived a frantic succession of alarms and excursions to win the 108th University Match and lift the Bowring Bowl for the second time in five seasons at Twickenham yesterday . |
| 29 | The assault on Panama marks the second time in six years that the US has employed its military forces against a country in the hemisphere . |
| 30 | A warning was issued by the National Rivers Authority in Shrewsbury that the swollen River Severn was expected to burst its banks overnight for the second time in a week . |