Example sentences of "time [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the first time that protection against meningitis has been offered as a routine childhood immunisation , as Jessica Fowle reports |
| 2 | Duchamp-Villon and La Fresnaye were also members of the hanging committee , so that the Cubist painters were able to exhibit for the second time that year as a group . |
| 3 | Previously , on Oct. 9 , 1989 , the Reserve Bank of South Africa ( central bank ) had raised interest rates for the third time that year by 1 per cent to 18 per cent to protect the capital account of the balance of payments . |
| 4 | Lying there she was aware for the first time that night of Maggie above her and Rachel below her ; both , she imagined , sleeping sweetly , and again the grinding weight of compassion and guilt swept over her . |
| 5 | Heaven knows it was not before time that reformation in that respect came about . |
| 6 | Others who had coped well enough to begin with on those scanty mill wages , who had even picked themselves up and patched things together , the first time that demon of bad trade had halved their weekly pay ; the first time there had been sickness and doctors ' bills to eat up anything they had been able to put by during the good times — never much ; the first time a husband had suffered injury at the mill or the foundry , which meant no weekly pay-packet at all . |
| 7 | It does n't , if you like , make sense and the key year , as I say , is nineteen seventy eight because that was the first time that spending on overseas holidays exceeded the spending on U K holidays . |
| 8 | But at the same time that emptiness in her heart still haunted her , that emptiness that only Jake could fill . |
| 9 | But this time that feeling of being overpowered , which , in the past , she had been so helplessly prey to , was itself overcome by raw indignation . |
| 10 | Wu Shih smiled , surprised for the second time that morning at Wang Sauleyan . |
| 11 | People who owned such land at the time that pressure for development came upon it — whether industrial or residential ; indeed obviously , the two went together — were faced with two choices . |
| 12 | The samples were subjected to sophisticated analytical techniques at the Research and Engineering Centre , Sunbury — probably the first time that rock from the region has been analysed in the West , said Dave . |
| 13 | But Marian continued to feel for some time that uneasiness in the legs which she knew meant that she wanted to run , to get away fast . |
| 14 | But this time that chain of communication broke down . |
| 15 | Rome had at this time little interest in the lands beyond , which lay mainly in the highland zone and were inhabited by the earlier and less civilized peoples . |
| 16 | Allocate a specific time each day as your ‘ worry time ’ . |
| 17 | British Telecom is putting up some £1 million toward the project including three hours free time each day on OTS . |
| 18 | We expend endless energy and an awful lot of time each day in pre-empting criticism ; in censoring our speech and our behaviour , checking our appearance , taking up less room , making ourselves invisible , smiling at the request of total strangers , feigning pleasure when we feel none — being good girls rather than real women . |
| 19 | She wrote to Jane at the start of her employment : ‘ There are two things I beg you to do : get your time each day in the fresh air and strictly limit the hours you spend on your work , which I have always had to do anyway with such a large family and it does make sense in the end . |
| 20 | Clara dreaded the vacations , and tried to whittle them down as much as she could , by semi-obligatory study courses , and quasi-essential trips to the continent to learn the languages she was studying , but despite these nibblings and thefts , she still found herself obliged to spend a great deal of time each year in Hartley Road . |
| 21 | It 's best if you keep to the same time each week for regular activities , though be prepared to be flexible about it . |
| 22 | With a heightened awareness of nutrition , more people are making regular exercise part of their daily routine , taking time each week to work-out and tone up . |
| 23 | Just over 70% spent a considerable time each week on stock work — most of the time spent checking , feeding and moving stock . |
| 24 | By 1987 more than half of Scottish consultant psychiatrists were spending some time each week in primary care settings compared with fewer than a fifth in England and Wales . |
| 25 | ‘ Given a relation R , the attribute B is said to be functionally dependent on attribute A if at every instant of time each value of A has no more than one value of B associated with it in the relation R. ’ |
| 26 | I heard myself say to him , though the different sections of my brain seemed to have slipped out of synch somehow , and I was aware of all sorts of different things at once , and time seemed to have slowed down and at the same time some part of my brain was racing , trying to come up with some logical explanation for what was going on that did n't involve calamity … and failing . |
| 27 | Erm would I be able to come and see you to er any time this afternoon about my project ? |
| 28 | A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation . |
| 29 | By the time this issue of the magazine is published the exhibition of prints , Impressive Women , at the London Print Workshop , will have finished and the supportive programme of talks come to a close . |
| 30 | For a time this story of Jacob at the Jabbok runs true to plot . |