Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] in the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , because there are wide variations between different ethnic groups in the time of arrival in this country and their age on entry , the numbers of those who have reached advanced years , in general small , differs greatly between groups . |
| 2 | Er but we dealt with quite a few serious accidents in the time I was there . |
| 3 | He became a zealous agent of Thomas Cromwell in the Dissolution and , according to John Foxe , ‘ repented him very muche that he had made Songes to Popish Ditties in the time of his blindnes ’ and seemingly abandoned composition . |
| 4 | A Sumerian version names five important cities in the time before the flood , and they link with separately preserved lists of pre-flood kings whose ages far exceeded those of the patriarchs in Genesis 5 . |
| 5 | Only the last survived a long complicated life as a passion , and led to her single-handed revival of the eighteenth-century art of shell pictures , an obsessive pursuit of Irish aristocratic ladies in the time of Sheridan and Goldsmith . |
| 6 | The parent becomes more dependent , and with only small increases in the time and amount of care involved , there is suddenly a multiplicity of tasks until one has progressed unawares to the point of full-time caring . ’ |
| 7 | It would seem that the region of Powys in north-east Wales remained as much in the front-line of warfare with the northern Angles in the time of Eadwine as it had been when Aethelfrith defeated the men of Powys at Chester . |
| 8 | Bonnie Langford explains that the songs from the show were big hits in the time of the 1930s depression . |
| 9 | Every teacher who makes excessive sacrifices in the time and attention needed for his own personal growth to the demands of the organisation within which he works or to its students is ultimately denying to that organisation and those students the very knowledge , understanding and skill which it is his professional responsibility to offer . |
| 10 | Significant reductions in the time required to retrieve files |