Example sentences of "[pron] time it " in BNC.
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| 1 | We missionaries were rather slow to respect this return to the home village by a second funeral service , though in my time it became more acceptable . |
| 2 | Oh that was approximately about erm , well I 'm talking about now in my time it must be over twenty year ago , when he introduced that and the simple reason was there was an argument between the deputy harbourmaster and the boatmen which are the cos they used t it all happened over a ship called used to be a collier , used to run here regular and that used to discharge so much coal at Cliff Quay , then it used to go into the dock at Tolwells Quay and finish unloading because it used to bring two or three different lots of coal , it was a four hold ship , she had four holds , and there 'd be one hold for the chemical works and perhaps there 'd be three holds for and that se |
| 3 | I think they call it fire safety now , in my time it was fire prevention but now fire safety which is probably a better word for it . |
| 4 | No I tell you it 's wasting my time it 's a known problem |
| 5 | In its time it has been claimed as one of the best dual-purpose breeds in the world ; no doubt the Shorthorn contributed to its early maturity and improved the carcass quality of what was once a rather coarse-boned large beef bullock , while the Jersey presumably contributed to its relatively high butterfat ( a Normande cow , many years ago , held the world butterfat record ) . |
| 6 | Though the theory was many years ahead of its time it was almost wholly guesswork and rested on no satisfactory contemporary experimental evidence . |
| 7 | But in its time it represented a real advance . |
| 8 | Ruth Lowinsky 's book is a true period piece , which is to say that in its time it was bang up to date . |
| 9 | The Committee reported in December 1942 , by which time it had become a part of the larger Cabinet Committee on Reconstruction problems . |
| 10 | Despite the memorandum by Keynes referred to above , the foreign exchange aspect of overseas government expenditure was conspicuously absent from the debate in the Defence Committee from its beginnings in 1946 right through to August 1947 , by which time it may be argued that the damage had largely already been done . |
| 11 | After verse 2 even the city itself remains nameless until verse 25 , by which time it is all over . |
| 12 | The date of the plaque on the Swan Lane wall is 1686 , by which time it was considered that the Garden had become ‘ effectively arranged ’ . |
| 13 | The population of England and Wales had grown steadily in the centuries up to about 1300 , by which time it had exceeded a level which could easily be sustained by contemporary food production . |
| 14 | After nearly two centuries of grinding corn , it eventually fell into disuse in the 1860s , at which time it housed the miller and his large family . |
| 15 | In 1714 , in the context of a marriage settlement , at which time it formed part of the Pudhill estate , it was a fulling mill , owned by Ann Cambridge . |
| 16 | By c1800 , the Norton family were there , by which time it had been reconstructed to house two fulling stocks and a gig mill . |
| 17 | A great wave of Greek influence in Rome began in the mid-second century BC with the conquest of Greece , and lasted well into the first century , by which time it had become a well-established fashion for young men of well-to-do families to complete their education in Athens . |
| 18 | But it does not appear to have been regularly employed in the Royal Chancery until the last quarter of the ninth century , from which time it became a fixed element in diplomas . ’ |
| 19 | The first sortie on to the Promenade was made on June 6 , and two days later was taken round the whole system to test for clearances. 641 was passed by the Railway Inspector as ready for service on 3 July , since which time it has regularly operated the Fleetwood service . |
| 20 | There were four cracked wash basins , never any soap and one roller towel , changed on Friday afternoons , by which time it was not only dirty but had a horrible smell . |
| 21 | The target was demonstrably stronger than the signal from the 24-cm calibration sphere , and we tracked it for 68 seconds , in which time it seemed to dive from 69 m to 114 m ( a speed of0–8 m/s or just under 3 km/h ) . |
| 22 | Even forty or fifty years ago , middle age arrived in the forties , at which time it was normal to develop a comfortable middle-aged spread and to withdraw from the sex and beauty stakes . |
| 23 | If Chris had n't been clutching a piece of leaf , would I have noticed a torn house plant ? some plants , like the aptly named deadly nightshade , do not reveal their effect until hours after ingestion , by which time it may be too late for effective treatment . |
| 24 | The issue simmered on until 1906 , by which time it was illegal for a Polish teacher to teach Polish history to Polish pupils in the Polish language : an estimated 60,000 elementary pupils refused to attend school . |
| 25 | The depth of flavour results from the warm climate , which ensures all the grapes are ripe , sweet and juicy when picked ; the wine is oak aged , during which time it develops much complexity . |
| 26 | The church began in 1974 under the leadership of Roger Forster and grew to a congregation of 250 by 1980 , since which time it experienced a rapid growth to a 1985 membership of over 1000 people meeting in fifteen different congregations and by 1990 this growth reached over 1700 adult members , not including children , meeting in thirty-three different congregations . |
| 27 | It took two members of staff about ten minutes of tugging to remove the anemone , by which time it had become ragged and contracted . |
| 28 | The presumed parish coffin at St James , Garlickhythe , City of London , is , in fact , an elm container made in 1855 for the safekeeping of ‘ Jimmy Garlick ’ , the celebrated seventeenth-century desiccated corpse ; he was subsequently recased in the nineteenth century in a glass-fronted mahogany vitrine , erect rather than supine , at which time it must have been decided to keep the coffin rather than discard it . |
| 29 | It is Denethor 's insistence on defending this ( III , 89 ) that nearly kills Faramir , and all it does in practice is to obstruct the arrival of the Rohirrim ( III , 111 ) by which time it is already a ‘ ruin' , for all the ‘ labour ’ wasted on it at the start . |
| 30 | If a successful sponsorship deal is arranged , the Liberator will be based in the UK for a two year period , during which time it would be a major attraction at the various events marking the 50th Anniversary of the US 8th Air Force 's arrival in the UK . |