Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun sg] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another point to bear in mind is that in 1988 only 35 per cent of the 400,000 new jobs created were full time : 34 per cent were part time and 31 per cent were in self employment . |
| 2 | By the end of the week there was just a simple theory test left where we were asked questions about winds , how to overtake and so on — and then it was certificate time . |
| 3 | ‘ It was decision time . |
| 4 | But now it was decision time . |
| 5 | Well , you learned to hold your own in those days , but some , some of them were n't too particular about bathing and what washing you know things like that , but er you got the usual crop of pigeon flies but there was no hooliganism , occasionally when , when it was election time and when Sir Richard was candidate for one year I remember , they came round and the people from Street and round that road they paraded through Caldmore and Palfry and there was a little bit of rough stuff went on there heckling and booing and shouting , but I do n't think any harm done . |
| 6 | And the rating officer was part time with the council , and one day , a rent collector was taken ill , and then I was given a five shilling bag of copper and told to go and collect these |
| 7 | I mean if it , if it I mean originally he said to me it was part time so I thought to myself well that 'll be perfect , just get her back into the flow again . |
| 8 | This was Easter time , this what you call an anniversary . |
| 9 | It was break time and everyone was in the yard talking about her : |
| 10 | Taureg had done well and had received her just and sincere due , but this was tot time , and on board the depot ship Omega , first things came first . |
| 11 | It was boom time and depression time . |
| 12 | The end of hostilities in Europe was boom time for the building societies . |
| 13 | It was catkin time on willow , alder , oak , hazel and silver birch . |
| 14 | Well that was tea time yesterday . |
| 15 | Soon it was term time again and evening were taken up with swimming , Brownies and piano . |
| 16 | The immediate problem was rehearsal time , as Denis was due to leave for Massachusetts any moment to spend the summer with Astrid 's parents . |
| 17 | Now it was lunch time and she rushed out before anyone could ask her to join them . |
| 18 | When she worried that they might not know when it was lunch time , he explained that when they saw his sister come back from her ride , then they would know . |
| 19 | It was dismissal time . |
| 20 | It was evening time , but sunshine was still big patches in yards and on housetops . |
| 21 | It was siesta time , that full-stop in the day which divides the long morning from the long evening . |
| 22 | After the laughter , they asked her to stay on , but it was siesta time , and she insisted on leaving . |
| 23 | that was war time and , and there 's the petrol , there was no , well a squeeze on petrol , you know , you 'd perhaps had just enough petrol to do some jobs where you could use the horse and cart down the |
| 24 | IT WAS crisis time in the grotto . |
| 25 | ROBERT Strain , bitter at seeing Glentoran lose a commanding half-time lead , admitted it was crisis time at the Oval yet again . |
| 26 | It was Recovery time . |
| 27 | All too soon it was finale time again and two very successful performances were over . |
| 28 | By then it was dark , it was night time . |
| 29 | I found work but I did n't tell them I had nowhere to stay , that when it was night time , I got on the night buses and stayed there until morning and then went back to work . |
| 30 | So if there 's a burglar then , he 'll probably be put off by I mean if he really wanted to break into any particular house for a reason , you , you might approach it , but if you have n't got th no firm house in mind you 've several houses and there 's one house without any lights on at all and it was night time , you may well go for that one first . |