Example sentences of "[adj] time [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We had a swell time this week-end . |
| 2 | British Telecom is putting up some £1 million toward the project including three hours free time each day on OTS . |
| 3 | A : Have you got any free time this morning ? |
| 4 | Make sure you weigh yourself daily , preferably at a similar time each day and in a similar state of dress or undress . |
| 5 | Try to allocate yourself a set time each day when you will practise your exercises . |
| 6 | They 're running late so they 're hoping they 're gon na work extra time each night . |
| 7 | My daughters have taken you to themselves as a sister ; João I know has shown you every courtesy and kindness — and I myself give up valuable time each day to speak to you . |
| 8 | We can not pinpoint the exact time that property passes without first classifying the contract . |
| 9 | The authors observe that up to the present time most obsolescence studies have been characterized by a superficial approach to what is a highly complex situation of interlocking factors . |
| 10 | Although for the present time this generation has strong feelings for the PLO and its chairman , Yasser Arafat , they have grown impatient with the niceties of political diplomacy . |
| 11 | HAYDN-LOVERS are in for a good time this autumn : coming up are the Haydn at Esterhaza concerts at the Wigmore Hall ( part of the Magyarok Britain Salutes Hungary Festival ) ; already on display is the Haydn and England exhibition at the British Library ; and just started is the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment 's QEH Haydn series concentrating on his late choral works . |
| 12 | Some students find it best to set aside a regular time each week ( perhaps at the weekend ) to file all the notes taken during the previous week . |
| 13 | It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption . |
| 14 | For a long time that night too he had not slept , had lain thinking , wondering what to do , listening to the delicate sounds like tiny bubbles breaking — and then hearing them no more . |
| 15 | I was awake a long time that night . |
| 16 | She lay awake for a long time that night , going over the conversation with her mother , trying to work out what she should say to Leo , and she rehearsed so many and varied conversations that she thought she 'd go mad . |
| 17 | It had been known for a long time that histamine was responsible for producing many allergies and the first antihistamine drug was produced in France in 1937 . |
| 18 | Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan . |
| 19 | We have also known for a long time that morphine cures diarrhoea . |
| 20 | dis I mean , it 's a bloody long time that train in n it ? |
| 21 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 22 | Rigid solids are much harder to get hold of in tension and so for a long time such testing as was done was confined to compression and bending . |
| 23 | Well I 'm conscious we kept you a long time this time this morning and I certainly do appreciate your attendance and presence . |
| 24 | Wishing you all a very happy time this Christmas . |
| 25 | For the sixth consecutive time that year , Prost had qualified ahead of Lauda . |
| 26 | I understand erm Mr because you realize in the short time that wording has been in the brochure , that it would not be possible to keep the management charges at the level of inflation or below it |
| 27 | I slept for only a short time each night , and I did not eat much food . |
| 28 | At the very time that Parliament was debating the garotters , there had been a public sensation when The Liverpool Mercury exposed an eye-witness account of a brutal navy flogging on HMS Majestic in which it was alleged that the officer-in-charge had taken considerable pleasure from the proceedings . |
| 29 | Just over 70% spent a considerable time each week on stock work — most of the time spent checking , feeding and moving stock . |
| 30 | This does it by operating a sprinkler for a preset time each day . |