Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | X. Ray 's unshowy steadiness was right for the low time in which he newly found himself — he could put the fire out . |
| 2 | The organization 's market share had been relatively stable for a long time and even growing in concert with the growth in world economies . |
| 3 | Boswell felt depressed for a brief time , and homesick : no letters had arrived for him , the cause of a little worry . |
| 4 | These remain unused for the entire time that the child is in nappies . |
| 5 | You 've been asleep for a long time . ’ |
| 6 | She fell asleep for a short time but it was about 3am that Mr and Mrs Phillips noticed she was not breathing , ’ said Mr Goldring . |
| 7 | ‘ But I tried being polite for a long time , Aunt Ruth , and it got me nowhere . |
| 8 | Grown in impoverished conditions , the plant becomes stunted but remains alive for a long time while many small shoots develop to give the appearance of an irregularly worn shaving-brush . |
| 9 | It has been clear for a long time that where land adjoining the highway is unintentionally entered , i.e. as a result of a car accident , that the plaintiff must prove negligence ( River Wear Commissioners v Adamson ( 1877 ) 2 App Cas 743 ) . |
| 10 | If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome . |
| 11 | It maybe faithful for a long time , perhaps you build up that trust , and it 's only once you 've got beyond that , that you can then begin to actually influence er , negotiate with them . |
| 12 | He suggested using watertight ox bladders as containers ; in them , tied to the saddle , plants could be kept fresh for a long time . |
| 13 | The Timer IC2 is connected as a monostable — that is , once triggered in this way the output , pin 3 , goes high for a certain time then reverts to low . |
| 14 | The rate of unemployment in Glasgow has been very high for a long time , and I accept that that is unfortunate . |
| 15 | Consequently its Laplace transform is or The unit impulse function is infinite for an infinitesimal time as indicated in figure 11.5(d) and its integral over all time is unity . |
| 16 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 17 | There was no question of demolition taking place and the site standing derelict for a long time , he said . |
| 18 | Last year he soloed the Eiger nordwand direct in the amazing time of 26 hours — the first ascent took three months ! |
| 19 | There need be no implication that success is identified with indefinite continuation : costs , human and material , can be limited to what is acceptable within an agreed time span . |
| 20 | Am I sufficiently interested in my question or topic to keep me interested over the necessary time period ? |
| 21 | By their reasons the justices stated that the girl would continue to be liable to sexual abuse if allowed to return to her family as the mother refused to recognise the responsibility of the father for that abuse and that the mother would not protect the girl from the father on whom the mother was emotionally dependent ; that they had considered that the girl might be cared for by her half-sister but had concluded that it would be difficult to prevent contact between the girl and her father ; that they had formed the view that contact between the girl and her father would be harmful at the present time and therefore the local authority should refuse such contact until the review by the local authority in six months time ; and that there should be supervised reasonable contact between the girl and her mother and between the girl and her half-sister . |
| 22 | Of course during the er during the course of this year we will be considering prototypes which will enable those young people to reach that high level of qualification but he will be aware that under the national training and education target there are some of those targets which are directly related to the points that he has raised and the important priority for this government is to ensure not only that we have young people training to an even higher level but through programmes like investors in people , that we encourage every member of the work force and those er who are primarily unemployed at the present time , to train to even higher levels of qualifications . |
| 23 | It 's the last I 'll see of the outside for a long time . ’ |
| 24 | The trend towards equality of attainment is especially marked in schools that have been comprehensive for a long time . |
| 25 | It is best made at the last possible moment , although it can be kept warm for a short time in a bowl set over a pan of hot water . |
| 26 | If the money remains unclaimed for a certain time it is returned to the finder . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , it wo n't be dark for a long time yet . |
| 28 | But I 'll leave the door open , and it wo n't be dark for a long time . |
| 29 | We remained numb for a long time . |
| 30 | Huddled together on the muddy earth floor they were content for a long time to embrace one another without speaking . |