Example sentences of "but in [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second . |
| 4 | It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But in due time the contribution to population redistribution was significant enough , particularly dispersal from London , with a total of 55,000 dwellings built in no less than 32 towns including Basingstoke . |
| 9 | But in imaginary time , there are no singularities or boundaries . |
| 10 | But in social time and social space we make just such distinctions and we do so in a very consistent way . |