Example sentences of "time [prep] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a particularly difficult time for many as , on the one hand , they are being urged to make decisions about their future while , on the other , they are expected to toe the line both at home and at school . |
| 2 | I had little time for more than a quick glance round the room . |
| 3 | But there was no time to admire the view , no time for more than a swift impression of airiness and light , of deep , comfortable furniture in maize-coloured linen , before she closed the door quickly . |
| 4 | His overcrowded programme allowed no time for more than the barest formalities between himself and Merrill , and his manner was coolly polite — a situation for which , she told herself , she was profoundly grateful . |
| 5 | That image of things would dominate men 's notions of space and time for more than a century . |
| 6 | I 've always been too busy building up my business to spare time for more than a few brief affairs . ’ |
| 7 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 8 | It was a long time after that before I regained my confidence . |
| 9 | It was discovered not on earth in fact but on the sun in the first place , in about eighteen sixty-eight erm absorption lines were seen , and , and it was a long time after that before people realised there was some helium on the earth and , and , and eventually erm helium , some gas was found bubbling up through , from a pit in the Black Forest and , and analysed and found to be helium . |
| 10 | There was a time after that when she was the most important thing in his life . |
| 11 | The congregation here was formed some time after 1690 though the present church building only dates from 1879 . |
| 12 | Jane Archer 2.32 ; Colin Richer 2.34 ; Paul Frindle 2.35 ; Terry Rivers 2.39 ; Steve Wade 2.56 ; Maurice Young 2.56. completed the Portsmouth British Wheelchair half-marathon in a personal best time of 1.25.41 as his training intensifies for the London Marathon . |
| 13 | Within this small population of 24 tests in adults , including 10 tests in subjects rendered achlorhydric by ranitidine treatment , the detection of a fall in UAO at breakfast time of greater than 0.5 mmol H + /mmol creatinine demonstrated normochlorhydria with a positive predictive value of 96% and a negative predictive value of 100% . |
| 14 | A very sticky variety clings to each new copy for an average time of more than an hour before it finally breaks free and the process can begin again . |
| 15 | If they were fed in manually , this would imply exactly the kind of task objected to by the unions — namely , a task paced by the automatic welder and with a cycle time of less than a minute . |
| 16 | NEC Corp has developed a full colour 10.4″ 2.5 lbs thin film transistor liquid crystal diode display screen based on an analogue RGB interface : NEC says that the new technology displays natural colours in the 4,096 colour range of a quality not previously possible : a high level of picture brightness is also achieved ; specifications include a 640 by 480 resolution screen with a total of 307,200 pixels and a response time of less than 40ms . |
| 17 | But at a time like that when i it 's devoted to the fallen in a war and men who were the heroes of the war say it was disgusting , you know , and and how they , they expressed themselves I thought was was a very very significant thing , it made a very very strong impression . |
| 18 | Erm and er that it 's maybe very important at a time like this when children are potentially going and and knocking on stranger 's doors to be particularly careful so what we 've done is is is put together a simple guide for parents and carers erm which suggests that er they should n't just let their children go off for the evening . |
| 19 | Looking after the ‘ tribe ’ is the number one priority , but Mary was always looking at ways of continuing her artistic leanings and it was to heraldry that she returned , this time with more than a hint of aviation to it ! |
| 20 | It was ironical that Adam , who was the owner of that big house and all that land and the contents of the house , nevertheless went down to Nunes the second time with less than a fiver in his pocket . |
| 21 | However , they can buy the ground at any time before 2012 if they want to . |
| 22 | It was reburied for the last time in 1973 after the number of visitors was found to be too high for the Cotswold village of Woodchester to cope with . |
| 23 | ‘ This all needed careful sorting , particularly the contents of the deed boxes , and with little space available , it was some time in 1925 before the job was complete . |
| 24 | ENGLAND have two squash players in the world 's top seven for the first time in more than a decade . |
| 25 | Manager Kevin Keegan was delighted by Kristensen 's form as the 28-year-old tasted 90 minutes of first-team action for the first time in more than a year . |
| 26 | Within a few months , for the first time in more than a decade , observers began to detect a thaw in Franco-Soviet relations . |
| 27 | It was the first time in more than quarter of a century that the socialists had been returned to power . |
| 28 | Boris Yeltsin 's planned visit to Japan was postponed , for the second time in less than a year . |
| 29 | This is at the comparatively small cost of three hours therapy time per individual if there are two therapists running a group ( one and a half hours of therapy time per individual if there is one therapist ) . |
| 30 | This is at the comparatively small cost of three hours therapy time per individual if there are two therapists running a group ( one and a half hours of therapy time per individual if there is one therapist ) . |