Example sentences of "time in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various societies , at various times in history , have formally and ‘ officially ’ treated the world with reverence . |
| 2 | In the last chapter we looked at how the social institution of marriage has changed at different times in history . |
| 3 | There have been many times in history when Christianity has faced extreme difficulty . |
| 4 | A book , edited by Hans-Ruedi Weber ( until recently of the World Council of Churches ) , On a Friday Noon , shows illustrations of Christ crucified , drawn from all cultures and times in history . |
| 5 | In a way that 's the necessary , valuable mistake of youth at all times in history . |
| 6 | The dominant idea in the liberal ideology of English is that of ‘ universality ’ ; great literature is universally ‘ great ’ for different peoples in the world and at different times in history . |
| 7 | The model contributes little to our understanding of why ‘ hooliganism ’ is synonymous with soccer , why it is more prevalent at certain times in history than others , and why it is predominantly a male , lower-working-class phenomenon . |
| 8 | In addition to all this , Professor Learner has been involved at various times in university adult education , and he takes English Literature courses regularly for the Centre for Continuing Education students , usually , but not invariably , at Friends Centre in Brighton , and I am sure that like myself he is happy to see so many adults from outside the university with us tonight . |
| 9 | While other families played Monopoly and Mah Jong , we sat round the fire , Sunday evenings after supper , and read out old leaders from The Times in turn . |
| 10 | In addition , many churches hold all night prayer meetings and encourage their members , from time to time , to spend more extensive times in prayer and fasting . |
| 11 | They saw off a spirited junior challenge , at times in style . |
| 12 | At an early meeting of the YCCC with the Middlesboro City Council , the latter having changed the date and place of the meeting several times in order to avoid having to directly face the group on the issues of the campaign , a staff member of Highlander posed as a member of the press and , with video camera in hand , asked questions on the Yellow Creek pollution directly to the Mayor , and filmed the result . |
| 13 | The coordinator assists with loan and grant applications and may see the client several times in order to develop a sound business plan in stages . |
| 14 | Aircraft hangarage and in particular technical personnel , require long lead times in order to significantly increase supply . |
| 15 | Naval officers required a patron at three times in their career , and it was useful to have powerful friends at all times in order to secure seagoing appointments . |
| 16 | On other days , he tended to have lunch either at the Reform or at the Oxford and Cambridge Club ; to judge by his correspondence , there were few occasions when he happened to be " free " and he was forced to arrange regular times in order to see close friends like Herbert Read . |
| 17 | There are , after all , even larger numbers : 10 46 , for instance , is not just larger ; you must add 10 40 to itself a million times in order to obtain 10 46 What if we could somehow muster a gang of 10 46 monkeys each with its own typewriter ? |
| 18 | I 'd changed subway trains unnecessarily three times in order to check no one leapt out with me as the doors slid shut . |
| 19 | Ascertainment bias might lead to earlier detection of cancer in regularly supervised patients , but against this as a factor in our case the survival times in cancer patients and the frequency of incident and fatal cancers were not different in clinic patients and controls ( figs 1 and 2 ; table II ) . |
| 20 | Appliances like cookers and water heaters tended to be used at off-peak times , but the use of electric fires was concentrated on the colder times in winter which coincided with system peak demand . |
| 21 | Slightly more personal is 60 ( ‘ Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore ’ ) , but only at the very last gasp , as it were , defeating time : ‘ And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand , /Praising thy worth , despite his cruel hand . ’ |
| 22 | Then you put your left hand over the glass , swirl it round two or three times in mid-air , slam the glass down hard as you can on a hard surface and drink the lot in one . |
| 23 | Roger , Lord North , admitted that as a subsidy commissioner he had let men off lightly in Cambridgeshire : everyone was known to be worth ten times his assessment in goods and six times in land ; some were worth twenty or thirty times their assessments . |
| 24 | He spoke once during the second reading debate , spoke or intervened thirteen times in committee , once on report , and once on third reading . |
| 25 | Several times in Committee , when defending differences of approach in the Scottish Office and slight differences in this Bill , he said that one of the great benefits of introducing this Bill some years after the privatisation of buses in England and Wales was experience . |
| 26 | We heard from the hon. Lady several times in Committee , but the Secretary of State for Social Services has kept her firmly muzzled on other occasions . |
| 27 | Probably the most crucial times in sea kayaking are launching and landing . |
| 28 | Slides were subsequently postfixed in 4% paraformaldehyde in phosphate buffered soline for 20 minutes at room temperature , acetylated in 0.25% acetic anhydride in 0.1 M ( pH 8 ) triethanolamine solution for 10 minutes , washed three times in phosphate buffered soline , then dehydrated and air dried for at least one hour . |
| 29 | The cell pellets were washed three times in phosphate buffered saline ( PBS ) ( 2 ml ) to remove any adherent drug before being resuspended in 1 ml 0.05 M phosphate buffer . |
| 30 | Sangster had been leading owner in this country five times in eight years up to 1985 when Sheikh Mohammed led the Maktoum charge , taking the No. 1 spot four times in row in the past four seasons . |