Example sentences of "[unc] time the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In under a year 's time the Services will also lose Crown Immunity , so that will add to the vigilance that will be necessary . |
| 2 | In an hour 's time the men will board a crowded , and today extremely hot , C-130 Hercules aircraft . |
| 3 | In the first Elizabeth 's time the superpowers were France and Spain ; but , while much has changed , Britain is still an island upon which no other nation has any territorial , ethnic or political claim . |
| 4 | They belonged to a category of fabric called fustian ( derived from the name of the Egyptian town where it originated ) , and by Shakespeare 's time the very word fustian had become synonymous with bombast and pretentiousness . |
| 5 | During Richard Webb 's time the large , gabled clothier 's house was built . |
| 6 | In Sewell 's time the course of instruction , lasting generally for two sessions of nine months each , was given in the cooler months of the year , the brief viva voce examinations qualifying for entry to the Royal College 's diploma examinations being held in the unsuitable surroundings of the Freemasons ' tavern . |
| 7 | IN A week 's time the suspense will be over , and we 'll known the colour of the next government . |
| 8 | Today Somersby has a population of around twenty-five though in Tennyson 's time the figure was nearer a hundred . |
| 9 | In Charles 's time the house was bought by ‘ La Belle Stewart ’ , Duchess of Lennox — the model for Britannia on British coinage — who , after her husband 's death , insisted the house should be renamed Lennoxlove as a sign of her devotion . |
| 10 | Since Euclid 's time the concept of axiom has changed somewhat . |
| 11 | Since Henry II 's time the advowson , or right of presentation to a benefice , had been construed as though it were a piece of landed property justiciable in the king 's courts , not the church 's . |
| 12 | In his grandfather 's time the City had stretched only as far as Ch'ung Ch'ing . |
| 13 | During Hart 's time the responsibilities of the customs had been concerned only with the collection of duties and the prevention of smuggling ; Chinese officials were responsible for banking the revenue and for its use in the service of loans and other financial obligations to foreign governments for which it was security . |
| 14 | It is beyond question that by Civizade 's time the learned hierarchy had become greatly elaborated relative to its state in Hocazade 's time , and a scholar 's progress through it is more or less predictable . |
| 15 | For a show due to open for its first public preview in a week 's time The Hooded Owl was in far from promising shape . |
| 16 | In little more than a year 's time the forest will be gone and there 'll be farms in its place . ’ |
| 17 | One hesitates long before accepting such details from a hagiographer writing some sixty years later , not least because by Goscelin 's time the canons of St Gregory 's Canterbury were claiming that they , not St Augustine 's , had Mildred 's remains . |
| 18 | In my grandfather 's time the Mamur Zapt used to control everything . |
| 19 | Schools universities and colleges in er about a year 's time the first resales . |
| 20 | So she said I 'm coming up in a fortnight 's time the fourteenth cos it 's David 's birthday that week |
| 21 | In a fortnight 's time the fixture is reversed with Banbury making the trip to Almondsbury , but the result of this game was Banbury United nil , Almondsbury Pixons nil . |
| 22 | In four weeks ' time the regiment moves from peacekeeping with the United Nations to peacekeeping by deterrent in West Germany . |
| 23 | In a few days ' time the President of the Society for the Protection of the Selva Sur , David Ricalde , would tell me , ‘ Some of these naturalists , it 's not their fault but they do n't know their stuff . |
| 24 | The parable may refer to the fact that in Jesus ' time the Zealots ( this was a name given to nationalists ) were stirring up the peasants to revolt against such landlords . |
| 25 | I said tentatively , ‘ Suppose in two years ' time the situation was different ? ’ |
| 26 | In ten years ' time the Esquire piece will be required reading for any journalist or student researching one of the few creative talents in the cinema today . |
| 27 | In ten years ' time the English language will not be worth speaking . " |
| 28 | In two months ' time the slopes would be a vista of hazy blue . |
| 29 | It was also agreed to review in three years ' time the entire stock of debt to the Paris Club governments , estimated at the end of 1990 to comprise $5,700 million of the total external debt of $10,500 million . |