Example sentences of "[prep] a time [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a time Maxim asked : ‘ Did you ever live that sort of life ? — for any length of time ? ’ |
| 2 | After a time Milhaez began to sing and the boat seemed to be carried upriver on his voice . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The deciding game between Angela Corry and Ruth was won by the latter after a time scramble . |
| 5 | After a time David relaxed and joined in , complimenting Felicity , chaffing her husband and turning often to Julia to remind-her of earlier conversations they had had or to ask her opinion . |
| 6 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 7 | After a time Boldwood started to hope that one day , if Bathsheba remarried at all , she would marry him . |
| 8 | Let us take a loop immersed in a magnetic field as shown in Fig. 4.13(a) and assume that a section of the loop moves a distance dl coming to a position shown in Fig. 4.13(b) after a time dt . |
| 9 | What must be done is to find the new position in spatial coordinates of the particle initially at xj after a time interval — t . |
| 10 | After a time interval determined by the LIFESPAN manager these modules will be deleted . |
| 11 | After a time Mr Saleb reappeared . |
| 12 | After a time Creggan felt no more fear , merely weariness . |
| 13 | I 'm thinking of a time scale of about ten years ahead . |
| 14 | In the Portuguese translation , the first cleft structure is rendered by an unmarked fronting of a time adjunct . |
| 15 | The implication is that if , by the medium of a time machine , predators from one era could meet prey from another era , the later , more ‘ modern ’ animals , whether predators or prey , would run rings round the earlier ones . |
| 16 | Havel 's suggestion of a time limit was supported by federal Prime Minister Marian Calfa , who also proposed that the law should protect the civil rights of those screened , and by Petr Pithart , the Czech Premier . |
| 17 | 3.3 Time restrictions If there is no mention of a time restriction in a covenant then the courts will normally infer that it is intended that the restriction should last forever . |
| 18 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 19 | Her footsteps and the faint noise of her limbs striking one another as she walked sounded like the mechanism of a time bomb . |
| 20 | And , anyway , doing the band had become less of a time thing , more a psychological matter of getting down to writing . |
| 21 | The number of people receiving supplementary benefit for each year from 1948 to 1978 , as shown in figure 9.1 , is an example of a time series . |
| 22 | The evidence , whether in the form of a time series or a cross-section of individuals , industries or regions , comes not from taxation directly but from hours of work supplied at different wages net of tax — which , of course , is not quite the question at hand . |
| 23 | It is here that the Germans have done so much pioneer work , and indeed the whole tendency of their art historical studies has been to regard works of art almost entirely from a chronological point of view , as coefficients of a time sequence , without reference to their aesthetic significance . |
| 24 | No general rules can be laid down as to the reasonableness of a time period because these obviously depend on the facts of each case , however as Lord Shaw said in the Morris ( Herbert ) case " as the time of the restriction lengthens and the space of its operation extends , the weight of the onus on the covenantee grows " . |
| 25 | This development has made sight accounts more popular with many customers , offering as they do the benefits of a time account ( namely , interest ) but with instant access with no loss of interest , and cheque-book and debit-card facilities . |
| 26 | Whether that contract or those contracts consisted of a time charter , a voyage charter or one or more bills of lading contracts or some or all of such contracts would have been immaterial to the defendants . |
| 27 | ‘ Professor Summerfield , you should never underestimate the guile of a Time Lord . |
| 28 | Next you have to decide when to enter the date and time information — do you want to use the spreadsheet like a time clock where you record what you are doing at the time you do it or will you use it to maintain a post-hoc record and enter dates and times in batches . |
| 29 | like a time lapse autobiography . |
| 30 | The lunch hour is like a time warp — give or take a few price increases . |