Example sentences of "time [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was at that time little public pressure to curb immigration . |
| 2 | It was clear that literature deepened our sense of the import of nationality by giving the most intense and at the same time most manifold expression of it . |
| 3 | At the present time most public library stock is chosen without any clear idea of the underlying stock needs of the user . |
| 4 | At that time most avante-garde painters in the US were interested in Picasso , surrealism , the Jungian unconscious , the inner self , abstraction . |
| 5 | A further drawback was that at that time most local authorities had neither the trained staff nor the organizational structure to manage a community care programme effectively . |
| 6 | From this time onward Christian churches were built for the purpose of worship and a form of Christian architecture developed . |
| 7 | In time so much rock is dissolved that a hole is formed , called a swallow hole , and beneath it there is an underground pipe , as at Gaping Gill in Yorkshire and Eldon Hole in Derbyshire . |
| 8 | At one time so many people from the area were hanged at Newgate it had been nicknamed Jack Ketch 's Warren , and according to Paddy it had been known for as many as forty constables to march down with cutlasses to control disturbances . |
| 9 | As I stood there my mind raced back to that time so many years ago when I had heard my mother say , ‘ I do n't love you , Nicky . ’ |
| 10 | Then , without the slightest warning , just like that first time so many months before , Karen jumped me . |
| 11 | " Nowhere " , he wrote , is there so much and at the same time so little centralization as there is in Russia . |
| 12 | Well no I do n't work on the nights anyway , you know we 're full time so full time just do n't work nights |
| 13 | Towards the end of their time together fantastic scenes would erupt . |
| 14 | There is a shortage at the moment of food and medicines , er a lot could be done by governments I think to help the Jordanians in that , at the same time perhaps wealthier governments could help poorer governments bring their people home . |
| 15 | The dangerous logic of events was leading to a predictable conclusion , though Sarah and Coleridge had met for the first time only nine days before and were of fundamentally different temperaments , she sharp-tongued , humorous and practical , he procrastinating and visionary . |
| 16 | All the walls were covered in brick here , this piece of the building was actually only at that time only two storeys high . |
| 17 | Like his brothers Richard agreed to accept rather less than he had been offered the previous autumn : half the revenues of Aquitaine , but this time only two residences , and apparently unfortified ones . |
| 18 | Over that time only one sign of ‘ progress ’ surfaced : the spouses did n't share the household duties any more equitably , but now they ‘ imagined they did ’ . |
| 19 | When the Cullinan diamond of 3,106 carats was recovered from the Premier Mine , Pretoria , its size and quality ensured at that time only one destination , the regalia of the king-emperor . |
| 20 | Worst of all was the four-year reign of terror when a female chimp , Passion , turned killer ; during this gruesome time only one infant survived Passion and her daughter 's cannibalistic attacks , until they both became pregnant and the deaths stopped . |
| 21 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 22 | Stephen Pile 's Book of Heroic Failures quotes David Wilkins 's translation of the New Testament from Coptic into Latin , published in 1716 by the Oxford University Press , as having remained in print till 1907 , by which time only 191 copies had been sold ! |
| 23 | Journey time only 65 minutes . |
| 24 | She remembered the time only three days previously when the Senior Scientific Officer of the instrument section bad let her look into the giant scanning electron microscope and watch the image of a minute pill of putty burst instantaneously into an exotic incandescent flower . |
| 25 | Erteco , for example , broke even for the first time only last year . |
| 26 | The comic , who had a history of heart trouble , had become a father for the fourth time only last year , when his second wife Tracey gave birth to their daughter Charlotte . |
| 27 | One means of enhancing the appearance of your home , and at the same time greatly improving security , is to replace old and badly fitting softwood framed windows with upvc or hardwood double glazed units . |
| 28 | Near me as I write are a number of volumes which I should like us to examine together in order to illustrate further the fascination of association books ; this time not inaccessible treasures but items of the type that can come to every collector . |
| 29 | It was not in the dictionary , and at that time not many people had actually visited the island . |
| 30 | It 's the tenth time already this year Thames Valley Police have dealt with an offence where a member of the public 's been threatened with a gun . |