Example sentences of "time and in a " in BNC.

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1 I prayed that Mr Gillis was on time and in a hurry to be done with his tedious task .
2 ( Why Jeffreys should choose to appear in a court at York is puzzling , especially in the wrong clothes for his time and in a building which was erected about 60 years later . )
3 This means that if one tries to take an ‘ essential section ’ there is no essence revealed which is the present of each level ; indeed the break valid for one history would not necessarily correspond to that valid for any other which will live in a different time and in a different rhythm .
4 Now I have met poisoners , dark , subtle souls who can strike at any time and in a million ways .
5 Young children have a very real need to place themselves in time and in a wider social context , and at a very basic level they need to explore the past before they were born and to begin to share the collective human memory .
6 She says you have to have evidence of continued use over a period of time and in a variety of sources so that it 's not just very specialised and short-lived .
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