Example sentences of "from the time " in BNC.

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1 Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to .
2 The critical phase is from the time the glider leaves the ground until it reaches a height of about 400 feet .
3 She found black paint in one of the kitchen cupboards , left over from the time Tom had painted the front door , and a brush .
4 This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’
5 Both areas , breaking and mending , engrossed Dostoevsky from the time when the shared convict existence of prison snapped him like a dry biscuit yet also made him new , so that in the closing words of The House of the Dead , with the knocking off of his fetters , the narrator greets ‘ a new life , voskresenie from the dead ’ .
6 We have to escape from the time warp in which , unfortunately , some people are still caught after three election defeats in a row . ’
7 The West ‘ gave us hours to survive , then days , then weeks and now they give us seasons , but they should learn from the time that has elapsed already ’ , he said .
8 Lynda Hillyer , head of textile conservation at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London , is concerned with the care of fragile and valuable textiles from the time of Tutankhamun .
9 From the time of the Falklands War , it was certain that the Tories would win the next general election , and that Mrs Thatcher would gain new stature as Prime Minister .
10 Ideas of the juxtaposition of the arid and the flowering desert were familiar to Eliot from the time when he had read Mayne Reid .
11 In the longer run the accentuation of the sterling area policy , and its apparent success , especially in the explosion of colonial dollar-earning from the time of the Korean War commodity boom , re-established the pound as a major currency , a role which seemed unlikely in 1945 .
12 The other was trying to find a mechanism to sell more. , Another example of the ability to see the wood from the trees can be drawn from the time he was asked to take charge of Esso 's marine operations .
13 This is especially true in the context of Latin America where this kind of duality and fusion has been a feature of culture from the time of the conquest right up until today — both on the popular and the intellectual level .
14 It was as though an extraordinary story — a great mythology , with half-forgotten legends , languages and lore — had been unfolding in his head from the time he began to think ; and his appreciation of the Old Literature was at the deepest level imaginative and creative .
15 There was , indeed , never a day , except when he was away on short holidays , during which he did not spend some time in her company , from the time of their first association in 1919 until her death in 1951 .
16 Some of my happiest memories date from the time when Father was alive .
17 What astonished everyone , from the time he started winning schools races to the glorious battles at the White City after the war , was that such a weedy looking person could perform such feats .
18 Dolphin kills were suspected from the time the practice of fishing on dolphins began in 1959 , but a secretive tuna industry for many years resisted all attempts to have observers placed on their boats , no doubt fearful of the outrage that would result if the truth were made public .
19 From the time of Mr Bush 's speech to the UN General Assembly in October to the last-minute pleas of Javier Perez de Cuellar , the UN secretary-general , an array of sweeteners was on offer .
20 So seriously , too , did I take myself in it , that from the time I was sixteen I found myself hardly letting a week pass without writing one or two descriptions — of a man , or a place , or a walk — in a manner largely founded on Jefferies ' Amateur Poacher , Kingsley 's Prose Idylls , and Mr. Francis A. Knight 's weekly contributions to the Daily News , but doubtless with tones supplied also by Shelley and Keats , and later on by Ruskin , De Quincey , Pater , and Sir Thomas Browne …
21 Locke 's belief in the relevance of reason to religion and morality , and his claim that salvation can be won on its basis alone , were common from the time of the Restoration into the eighteenth century .
22 The system was not obnoxious to the perpetuity rule , because each settlement and resettlement was designed to comply with the rule , and the perpetuity period began afresh from the time of each resettlement .
23 Upon proof of the mortgage the court will make an order for foreclosure nisi , under which an officer of the court is directed to find what is due for principal , interest , and costs , and the mortgagor is ordered to pay within six months from the time when the amount is certified .
24 As a rule the right is first vested in the author , and continues for fifty years after his death ; but in the case of photographs and gramophone records the original owner of the negative or plate is treated as the author , and the right lasts for fifty years from the time when the negative or plate was made .
25 ‘ I really admire you , bringing up four from the time the youngest was only five and working full time .
26 Early medieval monasticism was largely based on the Rule of St Benedict , at least from the time of St Boniface onwards , but with the liturgical side of the Rule greatly elaborated .
27 From the time of the Russian counter-offensive in mid-November 1942 , the Wehrmacht reports — seen and amended by Hitler himself — were largely silent about Stalingrad , and Goebbels , probably not fully informed of the true situation , confined himself largely to warnings about the severity of the struggle and the need to avoid the impression that a decisive stroke was imminent .
28 This would seem to be especially true when the foal exhibits a characteristic that is clearly opposite to how the dam herself has behaved from the time of her birth .
29 Horses that are well handled from the time of being foals are most unlikely to be aggressive towards us .
30 It stems right back from the time of Adam and Eve .
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