Example sentences of "time [conj] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telling you Christmas dinner 's no picnic for The Lady of the House at the best of times and this year was no exception . |
| 2 | He has now completed the marathon three times and this year achieved his best time of 3 hours 39 minutes , coming 8,348th out of 27,000 runners . |
| 3 | CRUFTS is always one of 's busiest times and this year was no exception . |
| 4 | Retinoic acid-treated F9 cells increase the steady-state level of H1 mRNA several times and this increase is at least partially due to an increased transcriptional activity of the gene ( 12 ) . |
| 5 | I am quite a pleader at times and this occasion surpassed all previous pleads imaginable . |
| 6 | I 've seen The Young Can Suffer forty-one times and This Side of Paradise thirty . |
| 7 | As Robert points out this is the first time that this function has been run as a single corporate entity . |
| 8 | Comrades , it 's time that this union , along with other trade unions , made it absolutely clear to the Labour leadership , we are the Labour Party , it is us that gives resources , our time , our money , everything to try and get them elected and it 's time they stopped kicking us in the teeth at times such as this . |
| 9 | Both Ian Allan , chairman of AIR , and I have felt for some time that this division was not helpful to the railway movement and it was agreed at the ARPS Council meeting held on 25th April ( which I missed due to the pleasure of attending my secretary 's wedding ) and the AIR Board meeting two days later that we adopt a proposal put forward by David Madden , a member of ARPS Council and director of operations on the North Norfolk Railway , to set up a joint committee to handle affairs of mutual interest , which we agreed should be called in good railway tradition : ‘ The Railway Clearing House ’ . |
| 10 | At the same time that this mischief is done , the wood itself is ( timber excepted ) but of a miserable account , as any one may suppose , when he is informed , that these shaws have a fence only on one side , and consequently are exposed to be eaten by the cattle that graze in the fields ; hence there is an imperfect system of wood , an injured one of corn , and wretched fences ; by aiming at too much , nothing arrives at perfection . |
| 11 | I was told at the time that this system had been adopted because it was impossible to fit a mechanical servo as fitted to the Series III without major surgery , |
| 12 | This is not the first time that this issue has reached the public domain , or will it be the last time that the House is asked to focus on the rights and duties of citizens in circumstances — from time to time inevitable circumstances — when the interests of one individual or one set of individuals necessarily impinge on and potentially damage the interests of others . |
| 13 | The in-can system , for which we hold the patent , won The Queen 's Award for Technological Achievement in 1991 — the first time that this award has been given to a brewer . |
| 14 | This was only the fourth time that this legislation had been invoked . |
| 15 | This is the first time that this development has been made manifest . |
| 16 | The association was closed to new members from the time that this project became public , but now membership will be opened again : I imagine there will be considerably more interest in membership than prior to the event . |
| 17 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
| 18 | We recognise the complexity of the situation and the fact that there is a shortage of skills , so we make no criticism of the time that this process has taken . |
| 19 | The time that this timetable motion provides for the Committee stage will be ample for consideration of the issues that the House as a whole has shown it wishes to raise . |
| 20 | As the sopranos of the WI soared off into the upper atmosphere he began to feel for the first time that this Christmas had meaning . |
| 21 | The Great Casterton villa excavation produced a good example ( Corder 1951 , 24 — 40 ) , but it was carefully noted at the time that this destruction by fire involved only one building and was , therefore , an accident and had no relevance to any historical event . |
| 22 | The > symbol is used to send the output of TIME into a file called RESULTS.TXT so recording the time that this line of the batch file is obeyed . |
| 23 | Through the love and compassion of Jesus the missionary is able to return time after time until this love has broken through and the message is accepted . |
| 24 | ‘ The authorities in Northern Ireland were quite satisfied that a substantial amount of explosives was in the area , and it might only be a matter of time until this sort of activity was renewed . ’ |
| 25 | But the reports must be consistent over time if this comparison is to be facilitated . |
| 26 | this case also dealt with the fact that the deceased mother had worked full time and this aunt had given up her job to look after the children . |
| 27 | So that is the position as it was agreed last time and this report really says that . |
| 28 | According to Patrick Forbes , in Champagne , the abbey of Hautvillers owned one hundred arpents ( an arpent is an old French measure which varied in size between thirty-five and fifty ares ) of vineyards some thirty years before Dom Pérignon 's time and this estate would have certainly increased in his lifetime . |
| 29 | They would ask me how the training was going from time to time and this interest spurred me on . |
| 30 | Readers can be expected to spot which of these quotations are forgeries , and they must also have doubted in their time whether this writer was as good as the early tributes made out . |