Example sentences of "time in this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came as a very pleasant surprise to me when I learned that you were in the habit of spending some time in this part of the world . |
| 2 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 3 | One society which has featured for the first time in this year 's results is the Standard building society . |
| 4 | A&E staff spend a considerable amount of time in this type of work . |
| 5 | People who spend much of their time in this type of activity will probably have already built up a reputation in the area . |
| 6 | Who would have shu sh shuddered at the very thought that we are even considering such a time in this day and age . |
| 7 | If workers were spending their time in this way , they were not only exercising a leisure preference but were consuming a non-essential . |
| 8 | The kind of determinism dominant in the book is exemplified in his discussion of tense : On the other hand it could be said that the English tense system offers speakers the choice of whether to see time in this way . |
| 9 | So th , the , this , you know , this main thing of really , a picture 's worth a thousand words , and the more you can block out time in this way , and protect yourself , er , the better your overall time management will be . |
| 10 | All time in this poem seems to be a running-down . |
| 11 | Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course . |
| 12 | On the other hand , there was the reflection that all universities , through their senates — composed of academics drawn from all subjects taught in the university — were responsible for keeping a self-critical eye on their own work , and it was time in this sense that the public sector caught up with established university practice . |
| 13 | ‘ We are seeing British scientists not only going abroad but also spending far too much time in this country chasing funds , ’ Sharp said . |
| 14 | It is fair conjecture that the Chelsea porcelain painters working from live plants sought subjects from the nearby Physic Garden , where they might find many impressive exotics flowering for the first time in this country . |
| 15 | He has a branch office in Gracechurch Street , and spends a considerable amount of time in this country . ’ |
| 16 | For the first time in this country , for many pupils , the assessment of oracy has been made compulsory : by GCSE . |
| 17 | There are many other more common causes of aortic incompetence , including rheumatic fever , but cases of syphilitic aortic-valve disease still turn up from time to time in this country , albeit rarely . |
| 18 | The afternoon was cold and raw , and I soon regretted my choice of clothing , a light linen suit dating from my time in this country . |
| 19 | There 's a new vaccine introduced last October which is being er , used for the first time in this country to prevent meningitis in children . |
| 20 | Although Sheikh Maktoum al Maktoum spends less time in this country than his three younger brothers , the ruler of Dubai still owns about 130 top racehorses here and has extensive business interests . |
| 21 | INTOXICATED as they are with the feeling that they are the World Cup champions , Pakistan , after only a brief stay at home which included a pilgrimage to Meccas at the government 's expense to offer their thanks to the Almighty Allah — besides cash awards at home from every quarter — are now here to take on England in a series of five Tests , and , for the first time in this country , five one-day internationals . |
| 22 | What we do have and have had for a long time in this country is an acceptance within our law and an acceptance within our definitions of freedom that there are responsibilities with freedom and those responsibilities in this particular case , we have long accepted the argument in this country , maybe not as much as erm , well more in fact than some of our colleagues abroad and maybe they could learn from us from this , but it is not acceptable to have the freedom to be unnecessarily cruel and in fox hunting we have a sport that is unnecessarily cruel , there are ways in which you can deal with rogue foxes , there are ways in which you can actually ensure that the fox community does not destroy the whole , er farming countryside . |
| 23 | Independent film productions have a hard time in this country . |
| 24 | They yeah we used to call in Tex and he , he could n't believe that there were old people living in Walsall at the time in this country the size of England , and people living in Walsall that had never seen the sea in their lives , and this guy coming from America could n't believe this . |
| 25 | Agriculture Parliamentary Secretary Earl Howe said : ‘ I am very disappointed that Potato Brown Rot has been found on a farm for the first time in this country . |
| 26 | You did leave some time in this afternoon 's schedule for that little detail , did n't you ? ’ |
| 27 | I doubt I 'll every do games for the remainder of my time in this school . |
| 28 | REM sleep can be identified with active sleep in the neonate , who spends about half the time in this state . |
| 29 | Catholicism is presented as a potential remedy , but the philosophy of indeterminacy appears for the first time in this novel as a rival discourse . |
| 30 | Jesus had come to Jerusalem , the capital of Judaism to take on the religious authorities and at this point in time in this Gospel it looks like he 's lost , gon na be dead in a couple of days . |