Example sentences of "at [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 I sent up the accent and made the audience laugh by suddenly relapsing into cockney at odd times .
2 ‘ I can be there at odd times .
3 Then at odd times he looks up and sees it again .
4 Most of us have no idea how much we actually pay for services , because in fact we do buy parts at odd times when they are needed , so the cost is spread out over the year .
5 Yevdoxia , who had grown up with the belief that sex was disgusting even at normal times , had refused to take any more of it , ever .
6 The castle is in the care of the Department of the Environment and can be visited at normal times .
7 This stuff , this human stuff , at normal times ( and in civilized locales ) tastefully confined to the tubes and runnels , subterranean , unseen — this stuff had burst its banks , surging outward and upward on to the floor , the walls , the very ceiling of life .
8 With both sides level at normal time the visitors went in front five minutes into the extra period when Hanvey scored from the spot after a controversial decision by the man in the middle .
9 I mean if you like , I mean , I 'll pick you up at normal time , then we 'll just
10 Unfortunately for domestic cats , their human owners rarely have the time to offer them mouse-sized meals , preferring to spoon out big dishfuls of cat food at feeding times .
11 Watch your fish carefully at feeding times to ensure that they are all behaving well and that all the fish are obtaining some food .
12 When first purchased my specimen hardly ventured out of its hidey-hole , a flowerpot , but after a year it can be seen hopping out of its hideout at most times of the day — particularly at feeding times .
13 Then it stays in the burrow alone , visited only at feeding times , for nearly two months .
14 The plan started to work within a few day he became shy and nervous of humans even at feeding times .
15 Golf : Cagey Faldo runs into form at right time
16 British Gas is selling at eight times earnings while British Telecom commands a 9.5 rating .
17 Protestors complained of forms being resold at eight times the original price , and accused officials of reserving share applications for family and friends .
18 Wolverton was an area of narrow Nonconformist faith , and our comings and goings at strange times were viewed by some with disapproval and suspicion , especially since we could not really explain the necessity for the shift work .
19 Light at strange times , rooflines
20 The shares will be valued at 9.85 times estimated earnings , and yield 5 per cent gross on a 1p notional dividend this year .
21 Overall , the annual sales of the top performers grew at 4.5 times the rate of the underperformers ; their returns on those sales were 2.5 times higher .
22 I was allowed up to chatter with the older men about the good old days on Le Manche , when my grandfather had not only held serious philosophical and religious conversation with les pecheures over his loud hailer , but had also been in to Boulogne harbour as thanksgiving for a market or two in Hastings at needy times .
23 THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city .
24 Interesting results emerge when we place these ‘ players ’ — who may be individuals or organized groups — on a two-dimensional , nxn square lattice of ‘ patches ’ : each lattice-site is thus occupied either by a C or a D. In each round of our game ( or at each time step , or each generation ) , each patch-owner plays the game with its immediate neighbours .
25 At each time frame the program will indicate all those functions which have failed to pass through the " design window " set for that part of the cycle .
26 Table VI shows the mean results and the maximum possible number of valid observations for each group at each time point .
27 It is not difficult — though may be expensive — to hire a guide for a day ( or a week ) so that you find the best snow available at each time of the day and each season , whether it has n't snowed for a week or is blizzarding as you start the day .
28 I was able to accommodate him at each time , you follow what I mean .
29 The pigeon would have to remember the position of the sun above its home loft at each time of the day .
30 Scans were obtained by manipulating the transducer so that it followed the appropriate long axis of the gall bladder and the largest gall bladder diameters at each time were recorded .
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