Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the dramatic climatic fluctuations of the last ice age — warm to cold to warm repeated several times — the flowering plants acted as thermometers for the climate , sensitive recorders of the shifts that affected everything from beetles to man . |
| 2 | Well , we have a particularly clever syndicate , who 've managed to have won five times so far this year , and Tony is here from the syndicate . |
| 3 | Men also claimed to have had four times more sexual partners in their lives than women — 12.1 versus 3.2. — Reuter |
| 4 | Men also claimed to have had four times more sexual partners in their lives than women — 12.1 versus 3.2. — Reuter |
| 5 | Both people entering unemployment as a result of losing a temporary job and people taking temporary jobs as a way out of unemployment seemed more likely to have taken a number of jobs , to have experienced a number of spells of unemployment , to have had less time in work and more time in unemployment than people becoming unemployed for other reasons , or managing to obtain a permanent job on leaving unemployment . |
| 6 | Books were few , but there was ample time to write ; as Coleridge , proficient in German after two months , put it : ‘ He seems to have employed more time in writing English than in studying German . ’ |
| 7 | I would have loved to have spent more time out there where the action is , but it just was n't practical . |
| 8 | He and I had talked long into the tropical nights and I had enjoyed his company , and I would have liked to have spent more time with Senator Crowninshield , but three months ? |
| 9 | Andrew Venables , 20 , of Lilac Grove , Whitby , Ellesmere Port , was found to have taken 11 times the toxic dosage of the drug . |
| 10 | In Witham the break-ins are thought to have happened some time early on Saturday . |
| 11 | and seems to have worked this time . |
| 12 | The sojourn at Swanage seems indeed to have held magic times for the couple only a few months wed , in those days before the later estrangement . |