Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sentencing Clarke at Oxford Crown Court , Judge Francis Allen said he took into account he had not been driving his van fast or badly at the time . |
| 2 | Hermes Trismegistus emerged from Egypt more or less at the time in which Zoroaster and the Magi became respected figures among the Greeks : they will have to be considered together . |
| 3 | I suppose that this is a small matter to mention , but allowing for a slight extension to the 24 hours of the second day , the negotiation was completed more or less in the time allotted — a remarkable feat and a testimony to the profound drafting and negotiating skills of many of the member states and many of the governmental teams . |
| 4 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 5 | Well the o , well more or less from the time we got in she 's not gon na go back to that place |
| 6 | In many cases , this delayed start will not be noticeable , especially if there is no important action right at the beginning ; the only real effect is that the shot is about one second shorter than you intended , and you will soon learn to allow for this by adding a second or so to the time before you press the button to end the shot . |
| 7 | Germany and Spain were eventually to become major producers of armour : within a century or so of the time of Barbarossa some of the most famous makers of armour were German , while Cologne became renowned for its swords . |
| 8 | That meant within an hour or so of the time at which Mary Penrose claimed that Riddle had left her . |
| 9 | This does not preclude the possibility that genes are normally transcribed at or shortly after the time of induction but exert their effects at later times . |
| 10 | Indeed in one of the few Scottish studies McDonald ( 1991 ) defines ‘ non-traditional ’ students as all those who are 21 or over at the time of entry to their higher education course . |
| 11 | I now know for certain that Selina Street is n't tucking Alec Llewellyn , or not for the time being anyway . |
| 12 | All had been strangled , and according to Christie all except his wife had been subjected to sexual assault at or just after the time of death . |
| 13 | Multiple ulcers ( two or more at the time of diagnosis ) ; |
| 14 | Settlement can be a drawn out affair and can take as long as six months or more from the time your debt became overdue . |
| 15 | The persons transferred automatically to the purchaser are all persons employed within the business being sold at or immediately before the time of sale whose contracts would otherwise ( at common law ) have been terminated by the sale . |
| 16 | Before the endoscopic era , the diagnosis was rarely made before operation or even at the time of operation and recurrent haemorrhage with a fatal outcome was common . |
| 17 | The fourth plea states that the plaintiff never had any cause of action against the defendant in respect of the subject-matter of the action in the Court of Exchequer , which he , the plaintiff , at the time of the commencement of the said action , and thence until the time of the making the promise in the first count mentioned , well knew . |
| 18 | This was only his second murder in eighteen years , and he was somewhat annoyed by it , coming as it did during the best fishing of the year , and right at the time when his garden was at its peak . |
| 19 | An experience of which I am thoroughly ashamed , and thankfully at the time my crew never knew , came to pass one night early in 1943 . |
| 20 | Without discounting the possibility that sources may yet be found in the mountains of China , present indications are that jade was already reaching China in Neolithic times by the route followed during the Bronze Age and down to the time of Sir Aurel Stein 's travels in inner Asia at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 21 | I 'd of been jumping up and down by the time I got to the |
| 22 | dissenting ) [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 790 allowing an appeal by the respondent , the Woolwich Equitable Building Society ( now the Woolwich Building Society ) , from the decision of Nolan J. [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 137 that the right to repayment to them by the revenue of sums of £42,426,421 , £2,856,821 and £11,714,969 paid by Woolwich pursuant to a demand by the revenue under the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 , which were subsequently held to have been ultra vires , arose only at the moment of the decision as to the invalidity of the Regulations and not from the time that the payments were made . |
| 23 | For example in a database containing the full text of literary works , each work will be protected in its own right and the duration of protection for that work will be based on the life of the author plus fifty years , or in the case of an Act of Parliament ( subject to Crown Copyright ) 125 years from the end of the calendar year during which it was created , and not from the time it was entered into the database . |
| 24 | The elections for it were promised for the following year and already by the time of the secretary of state 's television broadcast in early September both the NIO and the Ulster political parties were evolving respective plans . |
| 25 | Early Viennese modernism at the time and just after the time of the Secession of 1898 , parallel to the rise of the mass popular political movements , challenged this habitus of the Bürgertum from ‘ below ’ . |
| 26 | For mature students ( those 21 years of age and over at the time of entry ) the relationship was particularly weak . |
| 27 | We had wagers on how many times the horse 's prick bounced back and forth in the time it took to cross the Parade . |
| 28 | The objects offered in the present sale have been culled from ‘ [ secret ] warehouses dating back to the start of the Revolution in 1949 and also from the time of the Cultural Revolution ’ . |
| 29 | The population is also regulated by periodic suspension of sexual relationships for 3–6 months after the taking of a head and also from the time of birth of a child until he is weaned , i.e. 2–3 years . |
| 30 | ‘ Splendid , splendid , ’ he had said cordially and automatically at the time . |