Example sentences of "a time [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Time Warner AxS arm of Time Warner Inc has bought a 50% stake in MetroComm Inc , builder and operator of a fibre optic competitive telephone access network in Columbus , Ohio on undisclosed terms ; the company will be known as MetroComm AxS and the alliance the first step in a Time Warner programme to enter the long-distance access business . |
| 2 | For a time Bond was a bigger draw than Elvis , making Connery intensely glamorous and almost absurdly famous ; college kids in the Bahamas mobbed him shouting : ‘ You 're our leader , we 're your people ! ’ |
| 3 | For a time Jim also worked as a management consultant advising many companies of all aspects of work study , efficiency and wages , again specialising in textiles . |
| 4 | It seems that once upon a time OS/2 was going to be the real version of Windows , but Microsoft changed its mind and decided to go it alone . |
| 5 | Many a time Adam had drawn him plans and elevations of this nave ; he knew its proportions and could find his way about it even in the night . |
| 6 | Old Aaron Kleiber built up a little tailoring business , and for a time Ruth had worked for him as a seamstress , together with Sarah Vogel , another immigrant , and Rosie O'Dell , Connor and Sean 's half-sister . |
| 7 | A few at a time Martha 's companions would turn into their own yards , until at last she continued alone to the highest village in the valley , her uniform a civilised patch of blue and white against the wild green tracery of the jungle . |
| 8 | After a time Milhaez began to sing and the boat seemed to be carried upriver on his voice . |
| 9 | He had stuck labels in various places so that Willie would associate an object with a word , until after a time Willie labelled them himself . |
| 10 | For a time Beatrice was a wonderful companion ; she had taste , style , wit and a knowledge of literature and an interest in philosophy which matched Modi 's own . |
| 11 | Now one at a time Harry . |
| 12 | For a time Ealing was as closely in touch with the hopes and frustrations of post-war audiences as were the directors and writers working for Rank 's Independent Producers . |
| 13 | For a time Malins regarded himself as a Liberal Unionist , but he made policy toward drink the only basis for supporting parliamentary candidates . |
| 14 | Once upon a time Camille would have dipped her oar in here : she would have turned on Brian for attacking her mother or chided her mother in no uncertain terms for being a drunken slut . |
| 15 | Oil shale was also called ‘ boghead coal ’ , and for a time Scotland supplied ninety per cent of the world 's shale oil output . |
| 16 | [ For a time Alfred Knopf published both Ivy and Elizabeth in the States . |
| 17 | For a time Rank produced films that really could compete against American pictures . |
| 18 | If Hywel said to her the things the woman says , for a time Elizabeth would smile . |
| 19 | Once upon a time Shrove Tuesday was a holiday and there was feasting and fun in the streets before the quiet days of Lent . |
| 20 | For a time Stanley worked in collaboration with an Oxford plasterer , Thomas Roberts , at the Radcliffe Camera ( c .1744 ) . |
| 21 | After what seemed like all too short a time John gave way to the legendary Brush Shiels , who delivered his unique show to a packed downstairs hall . |
| 22 | For a time Cenwulf 's relations with Canterbury were good , but by 808 a papal letter suggests that he and Archbishop Wulfred [ q.v. ] were in dispute . |
| 23 | After a time Boldwood started to hope that one day , if Bathsheba remarried at all , she would marry him . |
| 24 | Although for a time Simone tagged along in his life , he never took the affair seriously . |
| 25 | For a time Charles surprised his friends by his enthusiasm for the nursery routine . |
| 26 | Once upon a time Fenna had brooded on a hoard for so many years and with such desire that it had quickened and grown , diamonds breeding and bringing up their young under his weight . |
| 27 | One one at a time Tony please . |
| 28 | ( There is evidence , though , that once upon a time Mars enjoyed running water . ) |
| 29 | ‘ There comes a time Jonadab , in every woman 's life , when she needs a man . |
| 30 | After a time Mr Saleb reappeared . |