lunchtime
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On Monday lunchtime, Downing Street heavily suggested it could do no more.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Nate Oester and Anna Li, from Port Townsend, Wash., were browsing a stand selling dish towels and tableware in London’s Borough Market at lunchtime on a recent afternoon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The controversy, she alleges, prompted ITV to remove her on repeated occasions from the line-up of its long-running lunchtime programme.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
The cyclists who do roll by don’t come in, said Gustavo Hernandez, who stood nearby in his mostly empty restaurant, Taqueria Y Birrieria Morelia #2, at lunchtime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The sight of all those plump, delectable, buck-buck-bucking chickens might be too much for the children to resist, especially if it was getting close to lunchtime.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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She said the school had found that some parents did not know about some of the support available around free school meals and lunchtimes.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
Counter to most of the men on the series, Snook’s husband, actor Dave Lawson, was able to take on parenting responsibilities, bringing their tot to set so they could play during lunchtimes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
Currently government guidance says that: "All schools should prohibit the use of mobile phones throughout the school day – not only during lessons but break and lunchtimes as well".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024
That means pupils cannot take them out during classes unless they are part of a lesson, or use them at break or lunchtimes.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2024
Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown had taken to haunting Professor Trelawney’s tower room at lunchtimes, and always returned with annoyingly superior looks on their faces, as though they knew things the others didn’t.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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