Example sentences of "time this [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 ‘ I fought here 22 years ago , about the time this kid was about to get potty-trained , ’ he said .
32 For some time this provision represented the sole full-time undergraduate degree in the UK devoted uniquely to publishing .
33 Notice , however , that all the time this expansion is taking place , the composition of the aggregate balance sheet must be changing .
34 After a time this ability becomes as instinctive as is the power of singing or whistling a note of any pitch desired , but it should be obvious that horn parts should keep to ‘ vocal ’ intervals or stepwise movement as far as possible .
35 Ever since its own time this parliament has been known as the ‘ Good Parliament ’ ; it has been thoroughly analysed by modern historians , and the Anonimalle Chronicle of St Mary 's Abbey , York , preserves an account of the deliberations amongst the commons which surpasses in its detail any other surviving account of the debates in a fourteenth-century parliament .
36 At the time this criticism was directed at her rather than at me .
37 Still , IBM is undeterred and hopes to launch its first pen-based computer some time this quarter .
38 It is time this government valued the academic nature of course work .
39 It is time this child grew up and got its independence .
40 ‘ It is the first time this artist has shown her work in this city and there were about 40 people there , sipping wine .
41 It is time this scandal was put to an end .
42 Although for the present time this generation has strong feelings for the PLO and its chairman , Yasser Arafat , they have grown impatient with the niceties of political diplomacy .
43 Once upon a time this plasteel cavern with its ranks of mighty support pillars must have seemed spacious , voluminous , gargantuan .
44 ‘ At the time this decision was made high energy physics took a major slice of government research budgets .
45 ‘ This verse described a boy who had been trembling in front of the bathroom door , but at the same time this boy was swallowed up by the verse ; it surmounted and survived him .
46 But it appears to me that , on the face of this document , there is no intention shown so to limit its effect , and that it is framed in the widest possible terms so as to cover , not only this particular debt , but all other claims by the bank in connection with the Professional and Trades Papers Ltd. , for it is admitted that the foundation of the judgment was the guarantee , and at the time this document was drawn up there was this joint liability on the judgment to the extent of £6,000 .
47 After a time this gentleman leant forward and tapped Baldwin on the knee .
48 erm And a lot of the time this gentleman would have been sorting through the data , finding out who owed how much money , writing them polite letters , and this is the sort of thing you can do very quickly with a computer .
49 The launch of the Linn CD player , an exotic two-box player priced at ten pounds less than £2600 , comes just a decade into the era of CD , and at a time when record player sales are on their uppers , and W H Smith , the UK 's largest purveyor of prerecorded music , is pledged to withdraw LPs from its stores by about the time this issue hits the newsstands .
50 London Stock Exchange dealings in Foreign & Colonial PEP Investment Trust should have begun by the time this issue reaches readers .
51 Ground fighting has been limited to sporadic artillery exchanges , and a handful of patrol clashes ; but this situation may change massively by the time this issue goes on sale .
52 A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation .
53 By the time this issue of the magazine is published the exhibition of prints , Impressive Women , at the London Print Workshop , will have finished and the supportive programme of talks come to a close .
54 The last time this barn had hay in it , Henry VIII took a tenth part in tax .
55 By the time this column is read the curtain may have fallen on the empire created by George Walker , finally defeated by a £1.5bn debt burden .
56 At one time this column stretched for some ten miles along the road to Viktring , together with their horses and lorries , supplies and women …
57 Three weeks , by the time this conversation took place .
58 For example , the 1987/88 Programme of Work included a major review of the modules in Personal and Social Development ( PSD ) ; the fruits of this review appeared in the catalogue last April and the new and revised modules are being used for the first time this session .
59 In twenty years time this field full of weeds could well be supporting a wealth of wildflowers .
60 Yet all this time this heart is Pamela .
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