Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had hoped , as women do , that living together for a time would break down his coldness . |
| 2 | Where he had been standing had been a turning point for cars once upon a time — when there were still cars in the world — but this had never been a place for modern things . |
| 3 | Kelly believe winter — allowing the results of that animal attraction to be born nine months later at a time of peak autumn plenty . |
| 4 | I have not said clear away , it is not the end of the lesson and some of you have not worked hard enough to make the end of the lesson now if you do n't want to make the whole poem rhyme , what you might want to do is to put two lines together at a time and have those rhyming , paired rhymes , rhyming couplets , you can do that . |
| 5 | With steelmaking they work in er two hundred and fifty tonnes roughly at a time , pour it in the basic oxygen steelmaking furnace , blow oxygen into the steel which takes about twenty minutes , then the steel with one or two other processes is basically ready to be used . |
| 6 | Three or four years perhaps at a time . |
| 7 | The Movement increased its membership from 5,000 in 1929 to 40,000 two years later at a time when the Communist Party was at its lowest ebb . |
| 8 | Counting those in the bristle-cone pine establishes that some of these gnarled and twisted trees germinated over five thousand years ago at a time when man in the Middle East was just beginning to invent writing , and have remained alive throughout the entire duration of civilisation . |
| 9 | Modern human fossils 100000 years old are known and humans were widespread in southern Africa by 50 000 years ago at a time when Europe was still populated by the related Neanderthals . |
| 10 | He became a protector of the species four years ago at a time when badger baiting had reached alarming proportions . |
| 11 | Sometimes the polyphony is treated in a free manner , voices imitating each other loosely for a time and then taking a free course until imitations begin again . |
| 12 | DNA changes by biological evolution only on a time scale of millions of years , but our powers of destruction are increasing on a time scale for the evolution of information , which is now only twenty or thirty years . |
| 13 | We may face the black night together for a time . |
| 14 | ‘ The Glynns were farmers once upon a time . |
| 15 | At the time of her appointment , Elizabeth acknowledged that she was coming to Lothian also at a time of great change with developments in the areas of delegated budgets for schools , curriculum guidelines for five to 14 year olds , nursery education and special education . |
| 16 | Taylor believes he must protect Gascoigne just at a time when he seems to have shaken off the horrific knee injury that has kept him out of football for 17 months . |
| 17 | The most telling point against Janette Richardson 's methodical interpretation may well be that no commercial benefits to the merchant can be imputed to his generosity and hospitality towards the monk ; the monk is invited to his house simply " " to pleye … in alle wise " " , " to have fun in every way " ( 59 – 61 ) , and is able to borrow a hundred francs from the merchant even at a time when cash in hand would be particularly useful to him in his business ( 255 – 92 ) : this , significantly , is the immediate context of the merchant 's reflection : Derek Pearsall nicely describes the poignant ambivalence of a single action that is motivated simultaneously by instinctive self-interest and by the " " inner springs " " of human virtue in the Shipman 's merchant 's desire both to be and to be recognized as generous . |
| 18 | ( The Countess of Clancarty , rumoured to have been the Earl 's cook once upon a time , charged £2,000 for the service , and Lady St John of Bletso , whose provincial protégées were known as ‘ the Blets ’ , the same amount . ) |
| 19 | And a cassowary 's wing-bone through the nose of a handsome young fellow was a fine attraction for the girls once upon a time ! " |
| 20 | Predictably , Irish Terence Adair believes that ‘ if steamers come into vogue , they will do away with all the romance once upon a time supposed to belong to a naval life ’ but the Scotsman 's more practical view chimes in with Jack 's opinion . |
| 21 | In 1774–80 for every British seaman who lost his life in battle , fifteen died of disease , while in 1779 Britain was preserved from invasion partly by the scurvy which swept the French and Spanish squadrons then for a time in control of the Channel . |
| 22 | The winner of stage eight was the Australian , Patrick Jonker , who escaped from the leading break of 13 riders with a mile to go and came in 12 seconds ahead in a time of 4 hours 40 minutes 45 seconds for the 125 miles . |
| 23 | This is not an experiment that can ever be done , although some people assume that certain remote and isolated faunas , such as those of Australia and Madagascar , can be treated as if they were ancient , as if a trip to Australia were like a trip backwards in a time machine . |
| 24 | Mul was evidently established as king in Kent but he was burnt to death there and Caedwalla responded with a second invasion in 687 ( ASC A , s.a. 687 ) and may then have ruled Kent directly for a time . |
| 25 | well I had a Triumph Herald once upon a time , everything with that was bolted on |
| 26 | would get paid for those multiple options probably on a time basis until |
| 27 | The West Indians were alert to any erosion of their parliamentary position even at a time when the principle of maintaining slavery was virtually lost . |
| 28 | I have not , but my sister worked in a hotel there for a time — that is where they met — and she says it is very remarkable . ’ |
| 29 | Perhaps objects like these had been fashionable in churches once upon a time , but no longer , hence the attic . |
| 30 | She phoned her mother again at a time her father could not be there ; she had to know about Mike and Catherine , what was happening . |