Sentence examples for lost time before from inspiring English sources

Now, hotel managers and restaurateurs say they will try to make up for lost time before the holiday season.

He said his own group lost time before reaching the summit at 7 p.m. on Friday, because they did not have the right equipment.

They have sprung to life in recent days in a scramble to make up for lost time before voters go to the polls on Tuesday for the party primaries, but state officials still expect a turnout of just 15 percent of the electorate.

"Then they increased their movements for another 2 weeks, as if they were making up for lost time," before settling back to normal.

I mowed down several thousand pages of "In Search of Lost Time" before figuring out that Proust, touchstone of novice food writers everywhere, had about as much to say about food as he did about lasers.

"For a long time I used to go to bed early," begins a story in his first book The Question of Bruno, duplicating the first words of In Search of Lost Time before continuing, "but then my parents finally bought their first TV set".

Bradley's confidence took a bit of a battering with his fall on Friday but he was already losing time before he fell - and falling off is part of bike racing.

and riders occupied the front portion of the peloton, protecting their respective lead riders Bradley Wiggins and Levi Leipheimer in order to not lose time before the final climb at Lac de Vassivière.

The winner will have lost time the day before and thus will be given some leeway to escape during the stage.

He painted a picture of a lost time, the days before South Bank looked like a Richard Curtis set.

Meanwhile, Piquet was able to close the gap on Räikkönen to under a second, before losing time by running wide at turn five on lap 60.