Example sentences of "from time [prep] " in BNC.

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31 This is a phenomenon which most of us experience from time to time , particularly when performing a highly practised task like driving a car or using a keyboard , and which the clinician often feels presents in exaggerated form in certain neurological conditions .
32 There are calm , spaciousness and perfectly balanced pictures within the overall design which from time to time acquire a more athletic quality , particularly in Monotones H ( i.e. two boys and a girl ) .
33 To a very large extent this is what Ashton does in A Month in the Country where the non-dancers speak out from time to time in explicit gestures .
34 They do this even though they may break the conventions from time to time .
35 Ashton , too , has made vivid use of occupational gesture from time to time as , for example , when his ‘ Swiss Miss ’ milks her cow with the help of the three boys in Façade .
36 There is little to distinguish between the Italian character dance and its demi - caractère form save only that heeled shoes are worn and thus from time to time take on a slightly Spanish flavour , the only difference perhaps being the more fluid way of phrasing and less rigidly accurate timing of the steps .
37 From time to time this can be very beautiful but because there is a lack of continuity in the dance movement from one picture to the next , the resultant work often appears static .
38 They are precise in detail yet from time to time break away from the formal patterns of Petipa 's well-ordered conventions .
39 Norris virtually admits as much from time to time .
40 Yet these matters , it has been suggested , lie deep — indeed , unutterably deep — in every American psyche ; and it is good that from time to time the unutterable be uttered — it is , one might say , one of the things that we look to poets for .
41 Patience is not what we associate with Pound , and from time to time he seems to have kicked over the traces ( at least once to be ticked off for it by Dorothy ) : yet we see all over again that the young Pound was well content with Edwardian England , was hopeful of it and ready to abide by its rules in everything that mattered .
42 Ms Khudiakova herself may , from time to time during the week of the show , model some of the 20 outfits — a red silk skirt patterned with the heads of workers who look as if they are marching when you walk in it , a red evening dress decorated with a swath of flowers reminiscent of the relief on a pavilion in Moscow 's Stalin-era Exhibition of Economic Achievements .
43 Not surprisingly , from time to time , his fatigue shows : the voice cracks , the temper frays , the judgement falters .
44 There is , however , a video of his performance which he is encouraged to play from time to time by his two children .
45 The Labour leader yesterday intoned the word ‘ socialism ’ in a purely ritualistic sense from time to time .
46 My neighbour would patrol his right of way from time to time , an absurdly dignified figure in his familiar DIY boiler suit and woolly hat .
47 So they need fresh enemies ordered up from time to time just to keep their chins jutting .
48 To achieve that target without endless sprawl , local interests will have to be hurt from time to time .
49 Yardley bore all these setbacks with great dignity , afflicted as he was from time to time by a form of lumbago that almost certainly hastened his retirement .
50 You could hardly blame them , though , for feeling bewildered from time to time .
51 In his speech yesterday Mr Lawson dismissed sterling 's troubles as ‘ turbulence ’ of the kind that grown-ups like him , who have seen a thing or two over the years , expect from time to time .
52 ‘ In the world in which we live there are bound to be periods of turbulence on the foreign exchange markets from time to time .
53 This was reiterated from time to time by showing them pages from the field notes and extracts from the data .
54 Their shells had been passing over our positions from time to time all day , with a loud rush that sometimes appeared to shake the trees .
55 From time to time a shell or two falls short and we have several casualties . ’
56 In the semi-darkness the houses around the village and the church in the centre of the green stood out like monuments with their shadows changing their shapes from time to time as a cloud obscured part of the moon .
57 The Allied guns behind us sent a few shells rushing over our heads from time to time .
58 From time to time one of the team got to his feet , went over to a neat pile of mortar bombs , picked one up and slid it gently down the muzzle of the mortar .
59 Wounded were being carried through the trees to the shelter of the farm buildings , the medics stopping from time to time to rest , then continued quickly on their way .
60 The first few days in Bavant were fairly quiet as far as the enemy activity was concerned , with a few mortar bombs coming over from time to time .
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