Example sentences of "time it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amber has always been used predominantly for jewellery , but in later times it also served to meet a variety of personal needs such as smoking gear , rosaries and worry beads . |
| 2 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 3 | And I know what I am , but what I am so closely resembles somebody else that at times it even scares me ! |
| 4 | ‘ A great deal or risible tosh , ’ sniffed the Telegraph admitting : ‘ At times it even achieves a level of plodding competence . ’ |
| 5 | Nevertheless sometimes it clearly has and other times it clearly has n't , so there does seem to be a line there , even if we do n't yet know , we certainly have to draw it . |
| 6 | At times it almost seems to run rather than wander ! |
| 7 | At times it still feels like yesterday , otherwise it seems a lifetime away . |
| 8 | The shady ground under the coppice of trees was a blue and white carpet of anemones — what trouble Claire had with that word when she was little , at times it still defeated her . |
| 9 | For a time it even had an international dimension . |
| 10 | At one time it simply commented on an offender 's suitability for probation , but following the recommendations of the Streatfeild Committee in 1961 , the probation service was encouraged to make more general recommendations as to sentence , in addition to the provision of more factual information concerning the offender 's character and personality , social background , educational record , employment and prospects . |
| 11 | Bella 's slander about drink baffled him , but at the same time it queerly took root , until he did indeed start boozing a good deal . |
| 12 | He tried re-dialling two or three times , but either it was a long conversation or he could n't time it right to slip in between calls . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | the number of virtual memory segments that are resident in real storage at the time it either finishes with the processor or exceeds the time slice allocated to it w |
| 15 | Anyway Rick spent what seemed like an eternity before he got the fish near the net but when it showed for the first time it soon became apparent why it had been so stubborn , the fish was massive ! |
| 16 | Part of the time it just hung there in the water , not even the tip of a fin moving . |
| 17 | ‘ Our defence against Wigan and St Helens was tremendous , but this time it just fell apart . ’ |
| 18 | In a provocative comparison of the failures of the French and Russian revolutions , he argued that the problem stemmed from the fact that no class , whether proletarian or bourgeoisie , can become the ruling class without taking upon itself something of the historical role of a ruling class — especially if at the same time it also considers that , history carries within itself its own cure' : |
| 19 | Breaking an organization down into smaller units ( work groups ) in order to cope adequately with the diversity of tasks that face it , creates opportunities to develop task interests and special know-how , but , at the same time it also creates rivalries and competing interests which can be damaging to the organization 's mission . |
| 20 | At the same time it also indicates a polarisation of national identities . |
| 21 | At the same time it also has to adjust to market leaders in the private and voluntary sectors and to public interest groups . |
| 22 | At the same time it also illustrates the practical purpose narrative theory may have for the reading of individual works of literature . |
| 23 | For a time it probably controlled the Adriatic coast from Rijeka to the Neretva and extended inland to the Hungarian border north of Zagreb and to the Drina valley in the south , where it faced the Byzantine empire and the Serbian principality of Raška . |
| 24 | even though it 's about seventy degrees all time it still felt cold |
| 25 | Jacobitism became attractive to a variety of different groups in the 1690s , including commonwealth Whigs , although at this time it still had little support in society at large . |
| 26 | BY THE time it actually became based in Reading in 1971 , the National Jazz , Blues & Rock Festival — as it would soon be known — had begun to epitomise all that was ominous about sitting on an ex-council rubbish tip amidst capricious weather and listening to the sound of the beat boom go bum . |
| 27 | He has planned his reunion with her for so long , that it almost ceases to become real by the time it actually occurs . |
| 28 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
| 29 | By the time it actually hit the thing , it seemed to be going quite slowly . |
| 30 | At the same time it formally approved the confirmation as a Vice-President of Abdol Wahed Sorabi , as announced by President Najibullah in January . |