Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [unc] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As I was about to say , this situation can not be allowed to continue , trespassing as we are on my wife 's time and goodwill . |
| 2 | Sir George agreed that the place was very different now from my father 's time . |
| 3 | ‘ The trouble began when grandather Garland died about thirty years ago — in my father 's time — and left almost everything to Edwin . |
| 4 | See in the latter part of my , my father 's time he was n't a well man , was he ? |
| 5 | They vanished from Ireland during my great-grandfather 's time , but on the night of Samain , the gateways between their world and ours open of their own accord , and they come back . |
| 6 | Yep , now nowadays erm they 've got the best , I mean the equipment is excellent , er it came in my time erm my predecessor 's time and it 's been carried on now and new developments have come in , erm and with , of course techniques in , not only dealing with the chemicals in , in making safe afterwards which is twice as complicated I think , you know the decontamination side , the clearing up , the protecting of the environment from toxic chemicals er which we 've all heard about in newspapers , and read reports and seen it on television , these , these accidents up and down the world . |
| 7 | ‘ Since my grandfather 's time . ’ |
| 8 | In my grandfather 's time the Mamur Zapt used to control everything . |
| 9 | Lots of titled guests were always invited and once , in my mother 's time as cook , princess Mary came to dinner . |
| 10 | One way of considering broad based beliefs about health was to ask , ‘ Are people more healthy now than in their parents ' time ? ’ |
| 11 | The majority , 78 per cent of males and 75 per cent of females aged 65 + , thought that people were healthier than in their parents ' time . |
| 12 | It might be expected that the percentage thinking that health had improved since their parents ' time would increase with age . |
| 13 | The proportion reporting that they thought people were healthier now than in their parents ' time decreased with age , from 78 per cent of those aged 65 — 74 years to 67 per cent of those aged 85 years and over ( Victor 1990a ) . |
| 14 | Compared with those aged under 65 , the post-retirement age groups are more likely to consider that health has improved since their parents ' time . |
| 15 | People are not more similar to each other today than they were in their grandparents ' time . |
| 16 | In societies close to subsistence levels , there may be relatively little outside the ‘ world of work ’ , which occupies most of their individuals ' time and energy . |
| 17 | In this group of 27 respondents , only two specifically noted that they were able to spend their full time on training , another two did not offer any estimate of time , and a further two indicated that their time plus their assistant 's time equalled one full-time post . |
| 18 | It must be explained that Kay Dick had published an article in which she stated that Ivy descended from Bishop Burnet and a Compton heiress from Wiltshire : ‘ the place was sold ’ , apparently in her grandfather 's time , according to this account . |
| 19 | Going to the Secret Cove was , as it had been in her mother 's time , the child 's greatest delight . |
| 20 | The ‘ he ’ is Shoeless Joe Jackson ( Ray Liotta ) , a disgraced member of the Chicago team who threw the World Series back in his father 's time . |
| 21 | In his grandfather 's time the City had stretched only as far as Ch'ung Ch'ing . |
| 22 | What he can not do without infringing the duty of fidelity is to make such preparations in his employer 's time or use or disclose either the business secrets or trade connections of his employer . |
| 23 | Nor can the employee do anything else in Hawkins J's list in his employer 's time . |
| 24 | He warned them not to waste his trainee 's time . |
| 25 | The longer the treatment continues , the better the results — but it is heavy on your vet 's time and an appropriately heavy hole will appear in your bank balance ! |
| 26 | That , when the Romans invaded England , 53 years , before our Saviour 's time , the kingdom had about 360,000 people ; and , at our Saviour 's birth , about 400,000 people ; |
| 27 | In our forefathers ' time … few books were read in our tongue , saving certain books of chivalry , as they said for pastime and pleasure … |
| 28 | If size permits it then adopt a central facility for photocopying as it is not an efficient use of your secretary 's time . |
| 29 | We want our pupils ' time here to be an exciting period of hard work and play , and of discovery about ideas and feelings . |
| 30 | You are not wasting your doctor 's time by asking about something which worries you . |