Example sentences of "[noun] [unc] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Our Shadow Cabinet meeting on Thursday decided to use Labour 's time on Monday to debate Cambodia . |
| 32 | Because a very large part of any president 's time is taken up in the ceremonial , in the ritual , in meeting heads of states from other countries , from opening the equivalents of garden fetes , receiving parties of boy scouts , er and whatever else the Queen and her family do these days . |
| 33 | I did n't think they could be like REM in seven album 's time , but there was a lot depth in there and I knew it would n't dry up after one or two albums , ’ he recalls . |
| 34 | Lethal will probably be a top-notch producer in another album 's time — Muggs already is . |
| 35 | During Edward 's time , a Fielding gas engine was installed , to augment the water power , the gas supply being laid on to the Millbottom area specifically for the mill . |
| 36 | Thus in Edward 's time St Martin-le-Grand in London was founded by Ingelric , apparently a chaplain of the Confessor 's of German origin , which in fact performed this function , and was almost certainly intended to . |
| 37 | But even before Edward 's time , seeds of dissension had been sown . |
| 38 | McColgan 's time of 31 minutes 26.11 seconds was nearly half-a-minute outside her British record — and more than 20 seconds slower than Tulu 's . |
| 39 | The Benedictine Abbey of St Peter and St Paul was founded in 1083 , about 50 years before Brother Cadfael 's time ; three huge columns and a wonderfully preserved Norman archway survive from those days . |
| 40 | In Keynes 's time it was mainly wealthy or high-income earning individuals who operated speculative balances , but in the modern economy this role has been assumed more by institutions which manage contractual savings held in pension funds , life assurance contracts , and the like . |
| 41 | During Spenser 's time Ireland was inhabited by three distinct groups . |
| 42 | The Old English tended to be the most influential group within Ireland during Spenser 's time . |
| 43 | English mistrust of Ireland , even though the rhetoric between 1600 and 1990 seems similar , is based on different conceptions from Spenser 's time . |
| 44 | Things seemed to have changed quite a bit since Johnny 's time . |
| 45 | What was so special about Johnny 's time , anyway ? |
| 46 | So she began to speak , choosing her words with care and refusing steadfastly to talk about Johnny 's war , or of the little she knew of Johnny 's time . |
| 47 | Appalled by her ignorance of Johnny 's time and of Johnny 's war , she had found some books at the library , and bringing them home , had read them with a mixture of fascination and growing horror . |
| 48 | On the previous Tuesday , she knew that it had been , in Johnny 's time , the 15th of August . |
| 49 | If she were to open the door perhaps the blackness would be out there now , ready to swallow her , as it had almost done on that previous occasion ; or would she wander endlessly in a limbo of greyness , forever trapped between Johnny 's time and her own ? |
| 50 | My researches into Tristram 's time in Spain were geared to the effect it had on his poetry . |
| 51 | Furthermore , the Germans and others who in Freud 's time were antisemitic , but who had not yet , as far as it was known , introduced the Final Solution , had been coerced into Christianity quite recently in their history . |
| 52 | But the consequences of an unresolved oedipus complex look quite different today from the way they looked in Freud 's time . |
| 53 | Mail hauberk of the kind worn by the crusaders in Richard 's time . |
| 54 | If we imagine the knight of Richard 's time riding into battle with a padded gambeson ( quilted body-armour ) , chain mail shirt and hose , topped by the huge helm , and swinging a heavy longsword — all in the blistering heat of the desert and against a much lighter-clad adversary — we may wonder that the crusaders managed to win any battles . |
| 55 | Though beginning to go out of fashion in Richard 's time , many of his soldiers would still have worn it . |
| 56 | During the partnership 's time at the mill , even more building was carried out , including an additional block , powered by three water wheels . |
| 57 | We can not therefore be sure that the passage reflects the law at Neratius ' time . |
| 58 | A further concern is that some journals do not transmit the referees ' comments to the authors ; this wastes the referees ' time and fails to appreciate that they want to improve published articles not just act as gatekeepers . |
| 59 | The winners will meet the Scottish champions , Murrayfield Racers in the final in two months ' time , writes Steve Pinder . |
| 60 | - Your summer clothes go into hibernation in cupboards , wardrobes , dry cleaners ' , cloakrooms , hat-stands , boots of cars , other people 's houses , restaurant vestibules , backs of chairs in disused rooms and many other places from which they will eventually creep , crumpled and dishevelled , in six months ' time . |