Example sentences of "[prep] a time a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first this was merely the usual paranoid rumour inevitable under a ruthless regime where informers abounded , but after a time a more imaginative version emerged . |
| 2 | After a time a magnificent escarpment of red and pink stone closed on the road from the east . |
| 3 | After a time a small boy emerged from the banana grove carrying a kerosene stove , a teapot , a glass , a home-made seisha and a bag of bread . |
| 4 | After a time a full yellow moon rose above the ridge of the eastern desert . |
| 5 | For a time a few gifted minds became a collective powerhouse , charged with a brilliance that still shines like a lighthouse from the badlands of ignorance . |
| 6 | Even knitting wool was on ration , but for a time a keen knitter could go into a shop and buy up hanks of thin darning wool ( un-rationed ) and use that to knit with , until some spoilsport in the Government ruined that idea by decreeing that all darning wool should be cut into approximately twenty inch lengths before it was put into the shops . |
| 7 | In Southampton it is more than twenty years since we learned that there was a major settlement of foreign merchants quite separate from the walled town ; and Hamwih seemed for a time a town apart from others in Britain — though evidently related to the great semi-urban sprawl which has been excavated at Duurstede near Utrecht . |
| 8 | For a time a chorus of bells from the monastery seemed to peel in celebration each time I finished a pitch . |
| 9 | True , revolution was for a time a strong possibility , if not a probability ; and as true , such a revolution would of course have been seen as the means to industrial democracy by those who sought it . |
| 10 | For a time a battle raged between the supporters in each camp . |
| 11 | At the end of teaching , the long street towards the centre of Cullbridge was for a time a babble of noise , with scuffles , cap-snatching and schoolboy indecencies hurled from green-blazered groups on one side to green-blazered groups on the other . |
| 12 | Indeed , this became for a time a veritable obsession , giving rise in some academic circles to the idea of a whole new field of study , to be called ‘ psephology ’ , and in the lower reaches of political communication to the massive television coverage of national elections , in which precise calculations of ‘ swings ’ from one party to another and predictions of the eventual outcome of the electoral contest tended to overshadow any serious discussion of the substance of political conflicts . |
| 13 | He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer . |
| 14 | Once upon a time a few years ago it was realised that the costs of circuits from the Post Office to broadcast choral evensong ‘ live ’ easily outstripped the courtesy fees paid to the participants . |
| 15 | Once upon a time a man could hang for setting fire to a hayrick ! |
| 16 | Once upon a time a ship was caught in a storm . |
| 17 | Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here , and we 're feeling the after-effects . ’ |
| 18 | Once upon a time a sprinkling of fixtures with cross-channel clubs was normal , but these too have disappeared . |