Example sentences of "of [adj] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believes , or he chooses to believe , that in Chicago or somewhere else there were readers of Poetry magazine in 1918 who zealously and in all seriousness wanted to know what French poets of that time they might profitably read , and what in the broadest terms they should look for in each of them . |
| 2 | At the end of that time they again expressed doubts as to their liability to pay and for the next three years paid under protest . |
| 3 | Mr Edwards also detects caution in employers who are recruiting : ‘ They hire people for a specific period , maybe one or two years , so that at the end of that time they can decide whether or not to renew their contract or make them redundant . |
| 4 | And in all of that time we had Gullfoss to ourselves . |
| 5 | Remember part of that time we were in div 2 getting only a fraction of the TV and Sponsorship money that Scum and Scouse were getting . |
| 6 | During all of that time my greatest ally and adviser in moulding the laws passing through the Parliament has been Nigel G M B's Director of Health , Safety and the Environment . |
| 7 | For most of that time he took drugs . |
| 8 | Most of that time he dived for red snapper along the edge of a break in the reef . |
| 9 | That may be so ; but on the other hand , if the plaintiff 's contention is correct , the solicitor may abstain from delivering his bill for 20 years , and then at the end of that time he may deliver it and sue after the expiration of a month from its delivery . |
| 10 | At the end of that time he came back again . |
| 11 | Kim had been on the Wiring Project for almost year now , though for most of that time he had been kept out of things by Spatz . |
| 12 | Towards the end of that time she sent me a letter ( not entirely personal , being printed , in facsimile handwriting ) : |
| 13 | At the end of that time she had learned that Amy was married to an Anglican priest and felt herself trapped and manipulated in a relationship in which she was the inferior partner . |
| 14 | During much of that time she had been moving constantly , school friends , teachers and happy times discarded until she felt like a fugitive . |
| 15 | For five years she had worked at the Ashmolean before moving across the street to The Randolph ; and for the latter part of that time she had actually worked for Dr Kemp , amongst others . |
| 16 | For most of that time she was in labour and great pain , she told an inquest this afternoon . |
| 17 | Moreover , our modern concept of history , however rationalized and secularized it may be , still rests on the concept of historical time which was inaugurated by Christianity . |
| 18 | Perhaps surprisingly , given his alleged ‘ structuralism ’ , Althusser argues that the structuralist distinction between synchrony and diachrony rests upon this Hegelian version of historical time which is both continuous and contemporaneous with itself . |
| 19 | Just the sort of wrong time you know |
| 20 | Less than a month separates the publisher 's acceptance of the book and Nietzsche 's completion of the revision ; and during part of this time he was busy preparing lectures on Plato and , unexpectedly enough , on Latin epigraphy . " |
| 21 | But while United were now reduced to ten men during that last desperate half hour of extra time they survived magnificently to force themselves into the dramatic penalty spot finale in the rain . |
| 22 | With a little bit of extra time you can |
| 23 | St Augustine did not explain how the mind could be an accurate chronometer for the timing of external events , but as the pioneer of the study of psychological time he stands in the front rank of those who have contributed to the understanding of our sense of time . |
| 24 | If you have been out of nursing or health visiting for six months or less you may feel that completing a formal course is a waste of valuable time which might be more profitably spent in reorientation to your new job . |
| 25 | As the man from the midlands is just one win away from becoming Britain 's most successful racer of all time its worth re-running his racing time … |
| 26 | And I 'd walk around the empty house , or ring Mum for a chat ; sometimes I 'd lie on the floor in Charlie 's attic and wonder what he was doing and what kind of good time he was having . |
| 27 | For all the centuries of recorded time it has existed as an art in which style and fashion were set by the taste of an aristocracy ; bourgeois jewellery , peasant jewellery in less precious materials such as we now call costume jewellery , all imitated court fashion … |
| 28 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 29 | We 've had a couple of stoppages in the first half , not the sort that will give us the nine minutes of added time we had at Highbury on Saturday , but certainly a minute or two this evening . |