Example sentences of "of time [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is natural for men to tell tales , and I suppose the short story was created in the night of time when the hunter , to beguile the leisure of his fellows when they had eaten and drunk their fill , narrated by the cavern fire some fantastic incident he had hear of . ’ |
| 2 | And it was only a matter of time when the truth came out . |
| 3 | To consider that matter at a point of time when the child has been placed under protection for several weeks , first by a place of safety order and then by one or more interim care orders , would , as pointed out by Bush J. in M. v. Westminster City Council [ 1985 ] F.L.R. 325 , 340 , defeat the purpose of Parliament . |
| 4 | Okay , so he was a porter , low man in the hierarchy , but this was the kind of time when the barriers went down and he did n't have to wear a label . |
| 5 | If the case raised factual issues , then the fact-oriented procedure should be allowed unless there were compelling reasons of time why the extra delay this would cause was unacceptable . |