Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is really rather unfair because the only time we can really define correctly is in hindsight — when we have already found the solution and are merely inventing a definition that would have led us there ! |
| 2 | And to be fair to you I 'm again going to give you a few minutes to talk about that , not quite as long as the other time , then I 'll ask you to jot a couple of things down as well as , so I 'm just telling you in advance . |
| 3 | You can extend this time if necessary to have it happen at a suitably dramatic moment ; the staging of the event is more important than the exact time . |
| 4 | This , though it is everywhere as various and as changeable as the biographical time which Bakhtin finds in classical Greek literature , can nevertheless still be identified as a distinctive and possibly definitive generic shift . |
| 5 | For instance , it is not realistic to expect that trains will run regularly at fixed intervals throughout the day and night , nor is it true that the mean time between vehicles is the same over a 24-hour period . |