Example sentences of "would [verb] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 As later events were to prove , there was no guarantee that those constellations would persist over time or even continue to support moves towards integration .
2 Right , there 's been a decline , if you think back to our , that marketing we did in agricultural transformation process , one of the results of that model , was that the prices of agricultural goods relative to manufactures would fall over time right .
3 For him , Bridgnorth would always be associated with the antics of a ghost that obviously liked railway engines and would appear from time to time to warn of impending accidents .
4 They would appear from time to time and taunt the old couple , reminding them of their past lives and the failures or mistakes which had brought them to the castle ( though never detailing them — neither Quiss nor Ajayi knew what the other had done to justify sending them here .
5 First , we would expect over time that , for example , certain words would fall out of use and items related to these would appear relatively more difficult than those which use words still current .
6 A longer pile carpet would flatten over time and might become slippery with wear .
7 The second specialist who had been called in — a man by the name of Adams — had assured Brian that his wife would recover in time , but he did not share his optimism .
8 I hoped that Archie would recover in time for his first night on duty .
9 Nor does the evidence of a renewed upsurge of potentially revolutionary protest from below in the immediate pre-war years suggest that this source of their inhibition would fade with time .
10 This would mean that disorder would decrease with time .
11 ‘ Yes , ’ she breathed , ‘ oh , Havvie , yes , ’ and if , when he kissed her , with the perfect decorum with which a well brought up young peer should treat a single girl — even one who had promised to be his wife — she did not feel quite the surge of passion which she had expected , she put that down to her inexperience , and his tentative handling of her , which would change with time , she knew .
12 Everything would change in time .
13 It would pay for time on military computers and research on alternative energy sources and methods of cleaning polluted soil and water .
14 Nevertheless , the clerk was still uneasy : his theory was well argued but there was little evidence and he wondered if the royal answer would come in time to prevent another murder at Godstowe Priory .
15 A woman would come from time to time and take my money and bring me clothes and food .
16 However , he took care to control it , monitoring his own drugs , and remained optimistic that this problem too would recede with time .
17 Grainne said slowly , ‘ It is to be expected that you would despair at times , ’ and Bec responded at once , ‘ Oh no .
18 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 .
19 If were greater than one , the effect of a non-zero would increase over time , so a value of of less than one is a requirement for the model 's stability .
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