Example sentences of "time [det] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Some time that year there occurred a famous meeting at the Vienna Café , in New Oxford Street near the British Museum , when Pound as Binyon 's ‘ bulldog ’ met Wyndham Lewis as the ‘ bulldog ’ of T. Sturge Moore .
3 Last week it admitted its 400th member , the Swedish-owned United Securities Fondkommission , the first time that level has been reached in its 300-year history .
4 He notes that at the time that Hoover was engaged in this exercise , a basic Italian washing machine was gaining market share against a heavily promoted German product , in Germany .
5 It is time that envy was reinstated in its rightful place , as one of the basic data of individual and social psychology .
6 Lying there she was aware for the first time that night of Maggie above her and Rachel below her ; both , she imagined , sleeping sweetly , and again the grinding weight of compassion and guilt swept over her .
7 When they entered the house one of the brothers reached for the bottle of whiskey and poured four large glasses for the first time that day .
8 Not for the first time that morning Erika felt slightly uncomfortable .
9 It was the first time that night Bob had displayed any real emotion .
10 It was at this time that ‘ Space Oddity ’ was released , a period in David 's life that brought both triumph and tragedy .
11 And what a lovely time that was .
12 It was around this time that ‘ queer-bashing ’ began in Bath , as in the rest of Britain .
13 For the first time that night , he felt lucky .
14 Marie asked Gazzer for the second time that day .
15 He was going to the cinema for the second time that week , with his beautiful lady , his Sweetheart , who looked and smelt and sometimes spoke like the real-life star of a Hollywood movie .
16 One smack with the whip — the first time that Mill Reef had received such encouragement since the Guineas — and he was through a gap between Hallez and Ortis with less than two furlongs to race .
17 For the first time that morning , he looked interested .
18 Having been without a tutor-organiser since 1958 , Essex Federation representatives on the District Council have suggested from time to time that other counties might benefit from following their example .
19 For the second time that night the prison door slammed shut .
20 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 .
21 On 22 July , the Water Authority had admitted for the first time that aluminium had been involved by placing a small advertisement in the local press saying ‘ that the water was no more acidic than lemon juice ’ .
22 ‘ You 're in early again this morning , ’ he said as Endill collected his climbing equipment for the fifteenth time that week .
23 This was the first time that father and son had been separated and it is apparent that Leopold undertook much of the organisation for the visit , advising Mozart and his mother of places to stay , even giving the costs of meals as they made their way through the German states .
24 The time that water spends in aquifers is an indication of their importance as natural stores of water .
25 In a way , the three of them were like moles , digging their way to the surface looking for freedom , coincidentally at the same time that counter-culture was doing the same and searching for heroes .
26 ( This , incidentally , was the first time that Boy had heard Madame refer to herself as Mother . )
27 It would have been wrong to propose that subsidized admission to such schools should he offered to very bright pupils , at the same time that comprehension was being commended ( sometimes forcefully so ) to grammar schools .
28 For the third time that day he called Kuhlmann from the public box .
29 That The Smiths are the most popular group , in rough terms , at the precise time that rock 'n' roll is going through its worst phase for many years says something that is not complimentary to them .
30 How many times have you been walking with someone who does that all the time , regardless of climatic considerations , and wanted to deliver a rabbit punch to the back of their neck when they stop for the tenth time that day and begin the ponderous unclipping of their rucksack ?
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