Example sentences of "but [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unsurprisingly , given this position , he is insistent that Anglo-Saxon and philology be retained as essential features of English studies , even in the light of the growth of the discipline : " Our first responsibility is to our subject , and , as that expands , we must not look for more ingenious methods of selection but for more time to do it justice . |
| 2 | But for some time teachers have been aware that many pupils do not appear to benefit from private-study time nor do they acquire the associated study skills , and there is uncertainty as to what kind of study skills training should be given . |
| 3 | But for some time after she had sat wondering , with a slight undertow of apprehension , what sort of things Hilda would be saying . |
| 4 | He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime . |
| 5 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 6 | ‘ I recently went to Ireland , and my visit was the headline news story in every Irish newspaper , but during that time there was not a single column inch devoted to it in the English press , whereas it was very prominently reported in the European press . |
| 7 | The training lasted only four months , but during that time the young mother was only able to spend one precious afternoon a week with her babies . |
| 8 | But during that time when things were going well , he managed it . |
| 9 | But during this time the pond started buzzing with activity as it filled with frogs , tadpoles , newts and pond skaters to name but a few . |
| 10 | This is a four-week period in which racing should not be undertaken seriously , but during this time training can become harder and as it does so , it must be directed towards the goal , It may be necessary to allow more time between hard sessions and longer recovery times during the session , until your anti-stress systems get back to normal . |
| 11 | Not a single vehicle passed , but after some time they heard the roar of bombs going off at the airfield . |
| 12 | It 's called being a citizen , not just of the world , but of all time . |
| 13 | But throughout that time one note — as discordant as heavy metal feedback — has been constant , that of Gianni Versace . |
| 14 | Between 1963 and 1965 the volcano Irazu in Costa Rica was more or less continuously active , with frequent explosions raining ash over a wide area and ruining the all-important coffee crop , but throughout this time no lavas were erupted and there was no significant change in the pattern of the eruption . |
| 15 | I always knew it probably could n't last because nothing goes on forever , but in that time , I had a great time in New York , and it seemed at one point that everyone was there when David was doing the week at the Universal Amphitheatre . |
| 16 | The North 's share of the world 's energy consumption was expected to decrease from around 70 per cent to 60 per cent by 2020 , but in that time the proportion of the global population living in the South would have grown from 75 per cent to 80 per cent . |
| 17 | Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second . |
| 18 | It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’ |
| 19 | The whole performance had taken no more than a minute , but in that time he 'd succeeded in turning the Chamber 's table into a fish-market gutter . |
| 20 | ‘ Career breaks would enable women to choose to take five , six or seven years out to have their families but in that time they would be kept in touch , ’ said Miss Armstrong . |
| 21 | But in that time he was credited with the discovery of three rarities the spring gentian , the mountain avens and the bog orchid , which was then lost again and only recently rediscovered . |
| 22 | Those marks are no more than a few weeks old , that 's certain , but within that time no one knows when they were made . |
| 23 | But before that time I guess father did n't leave the island . |
| 24 | After that we use ordinary physics that we know and love and understand , but before that time we 're working with uncertain physics and uncertain cosmology . |
| 25 | But until such time as that political solution is arrived at , we have to ensure the protection of the people in that particular area of Europe . |
| 26 | From six , so if you give us data every week for the next six months , and as I say , in six months ' time , we 'll then be working on actuals , but until that time , we 'll work on company averages for you , so that you 've got a plan to work to . |
| 27 | Little of his work of the next three years is known , but from that time until 1814 he produced much of his best drawing in pencil and watercolours . |
| 28 | My own ferreting campaigns begin in October but from that time onward to the end of the game-shooting season I am limited to outside hedgerows and warrens and burrows well away from the standing crops of game cover and the woods . |
| 29 | I I ca n't be sure where I got the information from but from that time until the end of my shift at ten P M I was gleaning information from all different directions about the and the connection . |
| 30 | Right now , potato yields are quite variable , right and erm , not only are they variable , but on this time series of yields you can , you can see the effects of technology . |