Example sentences of "the time [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time Marianne 's first marriage was breaking up , she had a three-year-old son and had already met Brian , her second husband . |
| 2 | You interrupt me all the time Marianne . |
| 3 | And all the time Nisodemus was reminding people how much better it had been in the Store . |
| 4 | By the time Anthony Cheetham left and set up Century , Maxwell had bought BPCC and Thomas was appointed director of publicity , responsible for both paid-for promotions and PR . |
| 5 | She discussed the problem with Tom but he suggested she should bide her time , adding , ‘ The navvies will have finished the road by the time Anna 's wedding comes around . |
| 6 | yes and what , and I 'm , I 'm talking about nineteen eighty seven , before eighty seven what was the time schedule , I know it will vary , from development to development for the final sales so to speak , how long will it take ? , |
| 7 | There were at the time parallel proceedings against the mortgagees to preserve the plaintiff 's priority rights against the property by virtue of the caution entered at the Land Registry , and it was the mortgagees who requested an adjournment from 6 June 1991 to a later date . |
| 8 | Joanna had cheered up considerably by the time Sophie had finished , and Sophie 's spirits were still high as she drove out to visit the old ladies ' home . |
| 9 | By the time self-government had been achieved in 1960 , Felix Houphouet-Boigny 's Parti Démocratique de la Côte d'Ivoire ( PDCI ) had defeated all other parties , whose papers disappeared with them . |
| 10 | Second , by varying the time cut-off point of T , we can still compare the results from this model with those of NNS and NNs without undue complication . |
| 11 | From the large numbers that have been found in this country ‘ key rings ’ must have been both popular and fashionable items : they also served a practical purpose for at the time pockets were not known . |
| 12 | She recovered — though the royal nursery in Linlithgow can hardly have been a peaceful place , with its occupant combining convalescence with the more normal infant problem of teething ; but she was entirely well by the time Sadler saw her again , in early August . |
| 13 | It seems to have originated in the personal computer segment about the time Compaq proved it could supply 286 machines that were comparable to IBM 's … and do so in a more timely fashion . |
| 14 | By the time Compaq reinforced its good impression with 386-based processors , a flock of clone makers had made desktop computing the most impressive bargain in recent history . |
| 15 | If such a ship or ships failed to enter , the city would capitulate by the time January entered its twentieth night . |
| 16 | The time trend accounts for the effects of a constant natural rate of growth of output while VP allows for the possibility that the efficiency of the economy , and hence the natural level of output , is reduced by a variable inflation rate . |
| 17 | By the time Ellie did finally remember she was supposed to be meeting someone in Dublin , the afternoon was well advanced . |
| 18 | At the time Thornburgh denied the report and launched a controversial investigation into the source of the leak . |
| 19 | But by the time Fokine produced The Firebird he had developed his mimed dance much further . |
| 20 | One album that is sure to bridge the generation gap and be near the top of the charts by the time Santa hitches up his sleigh to Rudolph and friends is 25 Years — The Chain ( WEA ) , an anthology covering the career of Fleetwood Mac . |
| 21 | At the time Pete was fifty , making the challenge of his biking this wilderness more meaningful than my personal quest . |
| 22 | Their early bargaining patterns and nature of product markets at the time bargaining developed , the willingness or otherwise of employers to form bargaining coalitions in dealing with unions , the form of divisions between unions themselves , together with the role of state policy , have been the major , identifiable forces ( ILO , 1974 ) . |
| 23 | It has been found elsewhere that once a development has become established , the second 50 per cent of all the time periods is largely sold through existing owners recommending the development to their friends . |
| 24 | Another important change is that the time periods laid down for these notices do not commence until the end of the day in which notice is given . |
| 25 | The size and type of zones to be used and the time periods to be employed ; and |
| 26 | The only multiple testing therefore is within the time periods after population mixing ( a total of two cells ) . |
| 27 | As such the time periods in 1.15.2 and 1.15.3 seem a little tight . |
| 28 | At the time Boulanger provided comfort albeit of a peculiar kind . |
| 29 | Among the revelations will be of the time Cecil Parkinson swore at her in a Cabinet meeting , Kenneth Clarke telling how she used her femininity as a weapon in meetings , and Norman Tebbit and Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten talking about the horrors concealed in that famous handbag . |
| 30 | ‘ The important thing is to know the time delay between when the fire starts and the detector operates , ’ says Peter Burray , head of fire detection at the station . |