Example sentences of "time [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the contrast would seem at least as much to reflect the differing circumstances and attitudes of the times about which each was writing and in which each lived . |
| 2 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 3 | Asked why it had taken him 26 years to return , he said : ‘ I was n't invited till last year — though if I had been before perestroika , I would have thought not twice but 10 times about it , and I 'm not sure I would have come . ’ |
| 4 | The second and third albums , ‘ Freewheelin ’ ( 1962 ) and ‘ The Times They are a Changin ’ ( 1963 ) , established him as a real and original talent , as both singer and songwriter , with a message that seemed as arresting and vital as the times through which he was fortunate to be living . |
| 5 | He and Malcolm met at Abernethy , a place of importance from prehistoric times through its days of glory as a major Pictish centre . |
| 6 | This game was n't a classic between two sides who have won the cup 14 times between them , but the adverse conditions under foot did not allow for a lot of skilful hockey . |
| 7 | Until recently , many of those women who experience a light vaginal discharge at certain times between their periods may have thought that they were the only ones to have this problem . |
| 8 | When the man who waited with her crept to her shoulder and whispered in her ear , as he did several times between his nervous pacings about the room , she made him no answer , and never seemed even to be aware of him , though her braced tension made it plain that nothing that passed in this apartment escaped her instant notice . |
| 9 | The system down times recorded will be the times during which there is a total loss of service due to a problem with the central system . |
| 10 | Statistics tell us that every man , woman and child can expect to go into hospital a number of times during their lives . |
| 11 | It is sometimes said , particularly by those who are members of the clergy of an established religion , that very many people seek to use the administrations of a church , particularly a Christian church , but three times during their lives . |
| 12 | Several times during their tour , which ended with the second ‘ test ’ against a New Zealand XV a few days after these notes were written , the England ‘ B ’ management announced that one aim of their New Zealand expedition was to broaden their rugby experience . |
| 13 | Researchers at Carlton University in Ontario interviewed 700 women up to three times during their pregnancy , focusing on their drinking and smoking habits . |
| 14 | It was customary for the group at the ICO to visit local corps a couple of times during their visit to Britain . |
| 15 | He went on to regard the presence of more than two rows to be an indication of adult growth , but , whilst this may sometimes occur it is just as likely that the unfortunate whelk was checked several times during its immature life . |
| 16 | There were times during his illness , he told me , when he was happier than he 'd been since he was a child . |
| 17 | Corbett had heard such a sound many times during his war in Wales and , without thinking , threw himself on his face . |
| 18 | The loss of income is a particularly hard blow for Joe because his Lebanese-born wife Elham was duped three times during his captivity into paying ransom money for his safe return . |
| 19 | So was the ghostly passenger preparing to embark on another train journey as he had done many times during his life on earth ? |
| 20 | Simmons , who changed his bat three times during his innings , hit 10 fours and two sixes in his fourth one-day century : it was hit second in successive innings , and his third in four matches in which he batted . |
| 21 | In fact , he might have been , and very probably was , called a number of different names by different people at various times during his lifetime . |
| 22 | He then waited for his new prime minister , Sharpour Bakhtiar , who had been imprisoned several times during his reign , and in whose hands he now was leaving the country . |
| 23 | In the absence of Philip and Storie , George Reifer will open the batting with Bruce Patterson , Clydesdale 's new professional , and though Reifer has not had too much experience of going in first , he did open a couple of times during his 15-game spell with Barbados . |
| 24 | So here we are , you know , our leader was someone who was homeless for times during his ministry and he belonged to a people who said their god was the father of the fatherless and the protector of widows , and god who gives the desolate a home to dwell in . |
| 25 | There may have been times during your working life when you have not , either knowingly or unwittingly , paid national insurance contributions . |
| 26 | A number of times during my weekend visit to Ireland , Bono hints that a move to London is all but inevitable . |
| 27 | It happened certainly two or three times during my training . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , I had an odd feeling about this fellow and it came to me many times during my short period as an Instructor . |
| 29 | We had sex just four times during our marriage . ’ |
| 30 | Before leaving this particular mystery , we should repeat that there is good proof that the direction of the Earth 's magnetic field has indeed flipped many times during our planet 's lifetime . |