Example sentences of "[adj] time in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We knew we were moving abroad at an interesting time in world history , but we did n't realize we 'd get to watch the apocalypse from here . |
| 2 | The treatment continues when the children spend periodic time in hospital , but at Poppy 's local hospital , the Gloucestershire Royal at Gloucester , parents have had to continue the treatment themselves . |
| 3 | Or what if the painter works for other people in his free time in return for cash ? |
| 4 | Christmas day itself was for sobering up and clearing up the debris from the wild night before , and after lunch the entire regiment was allowed ‘ quartier libre ’ or free time in town . |
| 5 | ‘ People who show the drive and the energy to put in a great deal of their own personal time in pursuit of professional qualifications quite frankly deserve all the company support they can get , ’ says Jill Fulton , senior personnel officer , recruitment and training . |
| 6 | An oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation has a mean cost of £783 based on an average time in theatre ( including induction and recovery ) of around three hours and includes the cost of the staples £130 ) . |
| 7 | It 's been a gloomy time in gloucestershire for industry in general , with more than a thousand jobs dissapearing from the Dowty group , the counties largest engineering employers , over the past twelve months . |
| 8 | But he would have preferred to spend the extra time in bed none the less . |
| 9 | Whenever I talk about these things anywhere in the country , I find that people who have been burgled or mugged , or have had items stolen from their vehicles would much prefer the young man or woman who committed the crime to do something to compensate or repay them instead of spending a brief time in prison , with all the disadvantages that that involves . |
| 10 | The Fox-North coalition was characteristic of the phenomenon for a second reason besides its brief time in office . |
| 11 | Similarly many a bureau may have to close their doors an hour before their official closing time in order to be able to leave the bureau not too many hours after closing time . |
| 12 | This withering criticism of the youth of the nation was reflected by the way in which all manner of novel terms — the ‘ mixed-up teenagers ’ , the ‘ wild ones ’ , the ‘ rebels without a cause ’ — entered into common usage in the 1950s , conveying the feeling that young people were somehow more radically unintelligible to older people than at any previous time in history . |
| 13 | The judge told Cranog Jones that his plan had been ingenious , but warned him that as a magistrate , he would have a hard time in prison . |
| 14 | 1992 , 28 , 46 ) will have a hard time in industry . |
| 15 | In other words , by planning and timetabling , you organize your present time in order to have future time . |
| 16 | And in return , no doubt , you gave him a good time in bed ! ’ |
| 17 | I will always maintain that I had a good time in service , and from what I heard there were n't many bad places in the Teesdale area — just the odd one here and there . |
| 18 | The loss of important relationships and retirement from a job , with its easy access to daytime companionship and the outside world , can also come at a particularly vulnerable time in life . |
| 19 | THERE was a testing time in store for members of THORP 's Chemical Separation Process team who found themselves in hot water recently . |
| 20 | Long time in discussion about moving desks needless waste of time . |
| 21 | Also , the slow course of the disease implied that any drug would have to be given for a long time in order to be effective and so would have to be particularly harmless to patients . |
| 22 | He must have saved up his pocket money for a long time in order to buy one of Uncle Philip 's masks . |
| 23 | Yes ar are not that good but I 'm working at it on a sort of regional basis erm but you may have to keep me here for a very long time in order to achieve it . |
| 24 | She was a long time in answering . |
| 25 | But three months is a long time in Euro-politics . |
| 26 | I 've a father in law who was er for a long time in charge of the erm er financial side of the P A Y E side of the er National Dental Estimates Board in Eastbourne in Sussex |
| 27 | This view remained dominant for a long time in sociology , but more recently other sociologists have become reluctant to view people as happy robots , acting out predetermined roles . |
| 28 | Thank you Mr Mayor erm a week is a quite a long time in housing but er er |
| 29 | A week is a long time in football , seven days in fact , but somehow a reversal of February 's 11–0 defeat at the hands of today 's opponents would prove that Lazarus does n't have the last word in comebacks , and we are still a team to be reckoned with . |
| 30 | A WEEK is a long time in football , is n't it ? |