Example sentences of "course [prep] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glasses are not particularly stable materials , and in the course of time they devitrify , acquiring a micro-crystalline structure , and losing their glassy transparency . |
| 2 | Above all , attention has concentrated on the ways in which in the course of time they managed to transform their basis of subsistence , increase and concentrate populations and by making possible a finer subdivision of labour promote advances in technology which in turn generated further cycles of progressive change . |
| 3 | Weeks went by and months went by ; in the course of time they had a little son . |
| 4 | But the mines became increasingly unprofitable despite efforts to improve them , and in course of time they were " farmed out " to Emanuel and Daniel , both sons of old Höchstetter . |
| 5 | And in the course of time they began to make simple documentaries erm which would be something say the study of Pekin , if you happened to go there , or Italy if you happened to go , any country that to which you could go , you went and you made not just newsreels but also erm documentary studies of these films , of these places . |
| 6 | I think in the course of time I 'll find a middle If I soften the edges — whether I need to personally or whether it 's being imposed on me — I feel I 'll be letting down the feminist revolution . |
| 7 | In the course of time I would die and then it would all be over . |
| 8 | In the course of time I moved into other , larger rooms ; the last had a splendid view of Windsor Castle . |
| 9 | Sooner or later The Course of Time it 'll |
| 10 | In the course of time it cooled and acquired an atmosphere from the emission of gases from the rocks . |
| 11 | Maybe in the course of time she will show me all these marvels . " |
| 12 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 13 | In course of time he finds that he is the pet antipathy of his superior officers , that he is made a butt for the amusement of other men on parade , and that if there is any unpleasant work or unpopular bear or point going vacant it falls to his lot to fill it . |
| 14 | In the course of time he was sent to Cornwall to educate the Ack-Ack regiments ( and to examine the Cornish churches ) but the sudden onset of a mysterious and debilitating illness ( which later proved to be high blood-pressure ) led to his being discharged as being unfit for service . |
| 15 | In the course of time he becomes one of the world 's most famous cooks . |
| 16 | In the course of time he and Richard were to become fellow-crusaders and bitter enemies . |