Example sentences of "time [prep] [det] [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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ENGLAND have two squash players in the world 's top seven for the first time in more than a decade . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Within a few months , for the first time in more than a decade , observers began to detect a thaw in Franco-Soviet relations . |
| 21 | It was the first time in more than quarter of a century that the socialists had been returned to power . |
| 22 | Boris Yeltsin 's planned visit to Japan was postponed , for the second time in less than a year . |
| 23 | She did n't have time to more than glance at it before two pairs of strong hands lifted her from the stools , and placed her unceremoniously on a table top . |
| 24 | Yes , erm no I wo n't spend any more time on that because we 'll probably come back to that anyway . |
| 25 | I love shopping for excellent ingredients and would rather spend time on this than anything else . |
| 26 | This is difficult stuff I 'm not gon na spend a lot of time on this because it 's covered on various other courses as well . |
| 27 | Look at him — throwin' his eye up your skirt — and it no time at all since he gave up wettin' the bed ! ’ |
| 28 | The hour winged past and it seemed no time at all before I was back on the top road waiting in the gathering darkness for the Scarborough bus . |
| 29 | It may be no time at all before he 's got you in the racket . |
| 30 | It seemed no time at all until the last model , wearing a mauve duchesse evening dress called ‘ Tour d'Eiffel ’ , had swished back through the gold curtain and Paul de Levantiére was standing to acknowledge the enthusiastic applause . |