Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new machines will cost only £50 more than current single-speed VHS models and in the long-play mode give up to eight hours ' playing time , instead of the normal maximum of four hours . |
| 2 | This would force some leading figures , like Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , to fight for a few minutes ' speaking time from the floor — or keep quiet . |
| 3 | Each cassette for Europe will run for 60 minutes ; customers in the US and Japan will get 90 minutes ' playing time , However companies hope to extend this to four hours . |
| 4 | Since monthly courses were introduced towards the end of 1991 , accidents costing more than three days ' lost time have plummeted by 80 per cent . |
| 5 | ( An irony of the conference was that not one shred of evidence was produced for the central assertion that three years ' full time training in research was essential . ) |
| 6 | So you had ten minutes ' free time , a type of reward , if you like , for paying attention and getting on with it . |
| 7 | On the other hand , I sat in my New York hotel room for a good five hours ' Bloomingdale-spending time watching Sex Lies and Videotape , The Fabulous Baker Boys and Sea of Love without so much as moving to the fridge to flex a buttock muscle of my own . |
| 8 | It was a quick turnaround ; the last leg to Manchester , nearly five hours ' flying time , would be exhausting . |
| 9 | Allow about fifteen seconds ' looking time . |
| 10 | But the 16-year-old Morpeth Harrier had already achieved the 3,000 metres intermediate girls ' qualifying time three days earlier , clocking 10 mins 13 secs at the Tyneside Track League , and decided to travel instead to Manchester to watch pop group Eurasure . |
| 11 | No more than two minutes ' flying time later , we can reconfirm our position from the high ( 200ft ) power lines crossing a main road immediately underneath us . |
| 12 | I was staying with a Filipino family on Mindanao , one of the southernmost of the 7,000 Philippine islands , two hours ' flying time from Manila , in a place called Dapitan City in the province of Zamboanga del Norte . |
| 13 | General Alexander and his troops carried out a magnificent fighting retreat and held up the Japanese advance until the rains broke , thus saving four months ' valuable time in which preparations could be made to repel the Japs if they attempted to invade India . |
| 14 | Philip Calvert , an A-level student at Prior Pursglove Sixth Form College , Guisborough , was two-hundredths of a second inside the senior boys ' qualifying time in the 800 metres , clocking 1 min 54.8 . |