Example sentences of "of [pron] time in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monica Shorten : ‘ My only regret is that the rival claims of the science departments and university clubs and social life distracted me from taking full advantage of my time in such an interesting community . ’ |
| 2 | I doubt I 'll every do games for the remainder of my time in this school . |
| 3 | This paper then looks at the characteristics of the people who spent some or all of their time in such homes and at the care they got from general practitioners , community nurses and hospitals . |
| 4 | People who spend much of their time in this type of activity will probably have already built up a reputation in the area . |
| 5 | Perhaps a little critical of his friends , he was a reasonable man of his time in all respects other than his ‘ passion for his Art ’ . |
| 6 | He spent most of his time in this one spot for he was a cripple . |
| 7 | I met him at his son 's flat in north London — a somewhat incongruous setting for a man who 's spent so much of his time in some of the wildest places in the world . |
| 8 | That speech was probably one of the most dramatic and remarkable , although it was quiet in delivery , that many of us have heard in the whole of our time in this House , because it was the undoing of a Prime Minister . |