• Solo tourism was growing in popularity among the young people, and even in the course of our time together my fellow-tourists had wearied of hustling so much.

    NEWYORKER: The Grand Tour

  • In the course of my time in the law I have seen many bad men, and I have heard evidence about many terrible crimes which have been committed, but I have heard no case more tragic nor more terrible than this one.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Glasgow and West | Lord Menzies sentence statement

  • The world cup event took place in the city for the second year - its first time in the UK was 2003 - on a course seen as one of the world's best.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Manchester | 'Superhumans' return to Salford

  • File away all the fine words and big promises you hear in the Swiss mountains over the course of this week and re-examine them in 11 months time.

    BBC: A guide to elite networking at Davos

  • The 23-year-old, who won the world super combined title on the Khandahar course at the venue in 2011, clocked a time of 1 minute 20.43 seconds while Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch finished 0.20 seconds back.

    CNN: Ski star Maze receives death threat

  • Available only to those in its (slowly) expanding FiOS network, Verizon is out to give subscribers a kinda sorta new way to watch television, and, of course, to cash in on the time-shifting craze while the window of opportunity is still open.

    ENGADGET: Verizon to offer "Home Media DVR" to FiOS customers

  • Of course, for the majority of his time in power the prime minister presided over the greatest centralisation of power in our public services since the Attlee government.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | In full: George Osborne speech

  • Of course, as with all things in the world of technology, time passes, the cost of micro cells falls dramatically and how to use this frequency very effectively is resolved.

    FORBES: Cash Poor Clearwire Is Rich In Technological Excellence

  • There comes a time in the course of legal evolution when the Court must step back and ask what hath it wrought?

    FORBES: The Paradox of Rights 'Granted' Us by Government

  • Darwin showed in detail how life changes over the course of time by the process of natural selection, but failed to explain how those changes can take different courses, dividing a species in two and thus multiplying the number of species.

    ECONOMIST: Evolution

  • In the normal course of events, the motion would be nodded through in the dead of night - but not this time.

    BBC: Tory manoeuvrings

  • What it does in the course of telling a seminal story of our time is what contemporary films so rarely do, serve as brilliant provocation.

    WSJ: In 'Zero Dark Thirty,' Zealotry in Pursuit of Zealots

  • The indictment alleges that over the course of his time in office, Mr Nagin travelled with his family to Hawaii and Jamaica on trips paid for by local businessmen.

    BBC: New Orleans ex-mayor Ray Nagin indicted

  • From the early closeup of turquoise toenails to the serene tableau of women, of every age and outline, showering and chatting after a swim, Polley shows that her real theme, her obsession, almost, is the body in time how it tenses and eases, whether in the course of decades or in a single, camera-encircled rondeau of sex.

    NEWYORKER: Tangled Webs

  • The network had just made a rights deal for Miami games that year, after a June 1984 Supreme Court decision forced the NCAA to allow individual conferences and schools to negotiate their own television agreements (five-year-old ESPN, just dipping its toes into the live game broadcast business at the time, would eventually pounce in a big way, of course).

    FORBES: Sports

  • Intrepid computer-users, of course, can defeat censors much of the time, not only in China but in Saudi Arabia, Iran and anywhere else that regimes want to block content.

    WSJ: The Keepers of the Keyboard

  • Of course in the U.S. most union and government workers get good stretches of time off, and in private industry three weeks of vacation after five or ten years of employment is so common as to be almost standard.

    FORBES: Want to Enjoy More Holidays? Move Out of the U.S.

  • We're in a time in which the normal course of the flu season is winding down.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • It was the only time we moved in the course of my childhood, and what made it most memorable was the fact that my mother was briefly shocked into silence.

    NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones

  • The ironic symbol of our defeat may be the takeover in due course of the immense new U.S. embassy in Baghdad by Iranians - this time by invited diplomats, not the hostage-taking "students" of 1979.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obama's next war

  • The bad news, of course, is that employee earnings in the service sector, which includes much part time work, tend to be low.

    FORBES: Whither Japan Stocks: Goldman's Positive View for 2012

  • "Efforts, of course, are not rewarded, and employers find themselves in the happy position of paying full time workers half-time salaries, " she pointed out.

    BBC: Underemployment affects 10.5% of UK workforce

  • And of course, George Bush had complete confidence in Mike Brown, the FEMA chief at the time of Hurricane Katrina, before Brown was out of a job.

    CNN: Commentary: Is Geithner a liability for Obama?

  • Yet the alarming truth, Mr Mishra concludes, is that the East is on course to make many of the same mistakes that the West has made in its time.

    ECONOMIST: The intellectual roots of Asian anti-Westernism

  • Murray has also benefited from the withdrawal of reigning champion Nadal, who knocked him out of the quarterfinals last year and was on course to meet the Scot in the semifinals of the Championships had both progressed successfully this time around.

    CNN: Murray: 'I'm ready to win Wimbledon'

  • Who ever coined the notion that women should stay home, make babies, cook dinner, play the role of June Cleaver and of course let the husband be the breadwinner in this current day should have taken a time train into the future by some 50 odd years.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The time trial course ended in front of the Colosseum, having taken the riders past the Vatican and the Circus Maximus.

    BBC: Menchov wins Giro despite crash

  • On commercial radio, of course, you'll have to suffer through about the same amount of time in commercials each hour.

    FORBES: Public Radio Goes Begging

  • Labour could, of course, devote some of the parliamentary time controlled by opposition parties to debate Silk in the Commons chamber but there is little sign of that happening - not even "in due course".

    BBC: Peers discuss whether Wales should have taxation powers

  • Goldman Sachs ( GS) and Morgan Stanley ( MS) and other investment banks, of course, tend over time to trade at lower multiples because of the risk inherent in their business model (including being funded by hot money).

    FORBES: Are Consumer Bank Customers Mules -- Or Will They Move if Kicked Hard Enough?

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