Example sentences of "time they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Verkhovensky has courage ( though in its lower forms of which Plato speaks ) , but otherwise there is nothing in common between the two young men except the times they live in . |
| 2 | Asking both men and women how many times they took the driving test before getting through , the researchers found that men had a significantly higher success rate , with 57 per cent passing at the first attempt . |
| 3 | The evidence of video films is that the police advanced at a trot and that at all times they were controlled . |
| 4 | The second and third albums , ‘ Freewheelin ’ ( 1962 ) and ‘ The Times They are a Changin ’ ( 1963 ) , established him as a real and original talent , as both singer and songwriter , with a message that seemed as arresting and vital as the times through which he was fortunate to be living . |
| 5 | At times they will get trampled into the ground . |
| 6 | But at other times they seem like sledgehammers to crack nuts . |
| 7 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 8 | At other times they claimed that Kylie had negotiated a one million dollar contract to return to Neighbours — a story which Kylie described as wildly untrue . |
| 9 | Kylie admits that the tour of the chic boutiques in Paris , London and New York gave the sisters a chance to catch up on a lot of the times they had missed when the demands of television companies just had to take priority over family . |
| 10 | Village Voice : The times they are a-changin' |
| 11 | WHEELCHAIR competitors in Sunday 's London Marathon have been told that instead of going for personal best times they must take at least one hour and 50 minutes to complete the course . |
| 12 | At other times they would collect along the river bank and the younger Martyn was to write many years later of Crocus vernus , ‘ I remember , when a boy , to have seen it in considerable quantity in Battersea meadow , near the mill ’ . |
| 13 | Although I believe they are improved as a class , many of them are rough diamonds ; at times they are light-fingered , they are not invariably sober , their education leaves much to be desired and it is impossible to allow them the run of the works after closing hours . |
| 14 | But at times they are exposed — and subject , apparently to over-heating ( especially as tidal pools warm up in the sun ) and desiccation . |
| 15 | He had little idea as to how far they had come and had lost count of how many times they had fallen . |
| 16 | Freames and Pitts Mills were in close proximity to one another and this , coupled with the fact that at various times they shared the same tenants and were put to similar uses , has caused a certain amount of confusion . |
| 17 | THE TIMES THEY ARE A'CHANGING |
| 18 | Take in every little movement they make , watch how they immediately gulp down some items of food , when at other times they will suck and blow it out several times before consuming it . |
| 19 | The extent of their happiness as they read and wrote , and walked the Dorset lanes , was in proportion to the unsettled times they had often known until then . |
| 20 | In most cases the 1988 Education Act offers blanket cover for governors in that they will not be held responsible , financially or otherwise , for their actions and decisions as long as at all times they have acted in good faith . |
| 21 | To ask an ordinary person how many times they have visited the cinema during the past year is probably unfair for all except a small number who can quickly say ‘ never ’ or else ‘ regularly once a week without fail ’ . |
| 22 | At other times they lack the skills of assertion ( see Assertiveness on page 8 ) and sometimes the gestation period is too long and the moment has passed . |
| 23 | Sometimes , as in the case of a foreign or inter-state trip , the youngster may just not be old enough or experienced enough to cope , but at other times they may not be showing enough sense of responsibility to be safely granted privileges . |
| 24 | Even although Andrew Kay & Company are the world 's leading curling stone makers , at times they have found it difficult to stay in business . |
| 25 | Several times they came across signs of deer , and wild pig , and once , some way off in a thicket , they heard a stag grunt . |
| 26 | Several times they set out to make their way across by what seemed to be a path but each time they were forced to stop . |
| 27 | Several times they fell painfully on jagged rocks , so that they learned to move exceedingly slowly , edging forward and feeling for a foothold , and all the time they could not know whether they were not wandering in aimless circles and approaching no nearer to the security of the forest . |
| 28 | Several times they crossed paths that led into the forest but it was not until another hour had passed and the moon was paling in the light of the false dawn that they were at last among strange scattered rocks like those which strewed the fringe of the forest where they had first entered the Waste . |
| 29 | They ( or most of them ) had never received a formal education , so at times they landed in trouble . |
| 30 | Then , from doing the same puzzle a number of times they remember where each piece fits . |