Example sentences of "in [det] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In we were fortunate in that the time of the introduction of L M S coincided with the all too brief period when this group was in control of the Council and as the window of opportunity opened to get off to a flying start |
| 2 | That 'll leave it wide open for the supermarket boys to market a ‘ free-range acorn-fed pork ’ — an intensively bred pig , fattened up in woods in half the time and costing well under an eighth of the price . ’ |
| 3 | Though originally designed for the other end of the alimentary canal , it was ideal for my purposes ; it was virtually unbreakable and gave accurate readings in half the time of an ordinary clinical thermometer . |
| 4 | The consequence of this ‘ friendly and useful ’ advice was that the parts healed in half the time after the second operation as they did after the first . |
| 5 | You can no longer say , ‘ OK , but there will be a smart worker who will learn how to do that in half the time it takes now ’ . |
| 6 | She is the one who knows how to puncture the wordiness of his speeches , getting him to edit his arguments so he can ram the message home in half the time . |
| 7 | Armed with the Steamatic , there 's no need to get your hands dirty and the job is done in half the time . |
| 8 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 9 | I told them the arguments put forward by Visual Effects , only to be told in return manufacturing a conical base would have been much easier as it could all have been done from one two-part mould in half the time . ’ |
| 10 | If you want it done in half the time , you 've got to have twice as many people . |
| 11 | And the foreman comes up and says , Oh want this job in half the time . |
| 12 | We surfed that channel in half the time it normally takes and then towards the end of our Connemara trip , even after a couple of longer crossings where she admitted she was cursing the disappearing stern of my glassfibres boat , she wanted to buy the Seayak . |
| 13 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 14 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 15 | High-recovery cylinders heat up in half the time so can be smaller in size |
| 16 | Normally it takes three or four years to complete the apprenticeship , but Reay helped by his ten year 's experience of weaving and considerable determination , achieved it in half the time . |
| 17 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 18 | In all the time she was there she asked for only two things , and in both cases I had to disappoint her . |
| 19 | It is important that an orchestra has new young players coming in all the time — we recently had a young Polish violinist who is one of the orchestra 's concert-masters , he is very promising , and full of music — but sometimes players leave us to fulfil their own dreams and ambitions . |
| 20 | ‘ It was like a cafe , with people dropping in all the time . |
| 21 | In all the time she had been with her Paula had never seen her so angry . |
| 22 | In all the time I have been writing the bass analysis column , I can not remember receiving any requests for the very influential playing of John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin , and now I get two in the same month . |
| 23 | In all the time the child was away she never received them . |
| 24 | I only done about eight or nine in all the time I was there . |
| 25 | Even though he 's calm and affable , he 's chain-smoked throughout the interview , and hardly smoked in all the time we 've spent together prior to it . |
| 26 | Because they have seen the future they can not or will not speak of what they know so the Phoenix Guard are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in all the time they spend as guardians of the shrine . |
| 27 | and erm , they were absolutely chocker , they were really full and he said erm , I sa , he said he had n't had to fill them up at all in all the time that it 's been running , and no , I asked him if he had any enquiries and nobody stopped him and asked anything about it , and then he turned to the other lad who was beside him the sales assistant and he said no I 've had no enquiries at all , so that was it . |
| 28 | We 're the best meal place round 'ere , an' after all 'e used ter call in all the time when 'e 'ad that ovver job , ’ Carrie reminded him . |
| 29 | Birchall ( like Rolf Biland 's passenger Kurt Waltisperg ) keeps both feet in all the time , and lies at right angles across the back of the bike . |
| 30 | In all the time he had know Joe , he had never seen anyone else in his room ; indeed he had never seen him in company , except at the meetings of the IRB . |