Example sentences of "[prep] time a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitler himself provided encouragement for such opinion when , in his major speech in the Berlin Sportpalast on 3 October 1941 , he not only defended the invasion of the Soviet Union as a preventive war , pre-empting in the nick of time a planned Bolshevik assault on the Reich , but also gave the impression that the back of the Soviet fighting capability had already been broken . |
| 2 | Slote 's method of predicting future use from past use is based upon analysis of the ‘ shelf time period ’ — i.e. the length of time a book remains upon the shelf between successive uses . |
| 3 | each measure of time a perfect |
| 4 | At the age of thirty-four he met and married within a very short space of time a widow who was four years his senior . |
| 5 | Other things being equal , the higher the average for the length of time a person is unemployed , the greater will be the number unemployed at any moment in time . |
| 6 | And , as a consequence , a phenomenon , peculiar to the species , called ‘ belief ’ , takes hold like an infection , or on-going plague , and in the course of time a formidable hierarchical structure develops . |
| 7 | By the beginning of the thirteenth century there was a widely held belief within the Church that masses said on behalf of the dead would shorten the length of time a soul spent in purgatory . |
| 8 | Tacograph readings are used to enforce European safety limits on the length of time a driver is behind the wheel without a break . |
| 9 | Tachograph readings are used to enforce European safety limits on the length of time a driver is behind the wheel without a break . |
| 10 | The definition does not , for very practical reasons , define caring in terms of time spent or the amount of time a dependant could be left for . |
| 11 | The period of time a bill is before Parliament determines how long the window of opportunity to legislate on criminal justice matters remains open . |
| 12 | 2 nurses can perform a dressing more efficiently and cut down the length of time a wound is exposed and at risk and the number of times hands need to be washed . |
| 13 | This is not an exact method as the rate of fading is determined by the length of time a rug has been exposed to the light and by the intensity of the light source . |
| 14 | If there 's a continual turnover of material we can actually calculate its residence time , that is the average length of time a particular molecule of substance X spends in the ocean . |
| 15 | In the Ladies , where they went to explore and while away the length of time a restaurant meal always took , Miranda began , ‘ Who 's that man then ? ’ |
| 16 | the amount of time a supervisor has to spend with his subordinates , taking into account the demands of his own superiors , other departments and operational/non-managerial work ; |
| 17 | Provided that the sea has been eroding for a sufficient length of time a negative movement of base level results in a raised beach , consisting as a rule of an eroded platform of solid rocks with or without a covering of beach deposits . |
| 18 | There was a little discussion about the length of time a perfectly made cup of tea ought to be brewed and a little anguish because there was no milk to offer the guests . |
| 19 | Aim to collect over a period of time a variety of texts covering different types of oral literature , the formal and the informal , fiction and truth , narrative and exhortation , and so on . |
| 20 | This stage is followed by a search for means to implement the desired change and over a period of time a cycle of problems are handled by this method . |
| 21 | Now , Harry was certain , Cornelius meant more than the length of time a middle-aged man should give himself to recover from influenza . |
| 22 | The next Labour Government will end GP fund holding , because we shall not tolerate a two-tier list system in which the length of time a patient waits depends on the size of the GP 's budget . |
| 23 | Reducing the amount of time a patient spends in face-to-face contact with relatives with whom he lives in a ‘ high EE ’ environment , or changing their communication styles , will also be protective . |
| 24 | and attempts to evoke ahead of time a vivid anticipation of the experience with its associated feelings of anxiety , tension , depression and deprivation . |
| 25 | The agreed ratio will reflect a number of considerations , such as : ( a ) the age and experience of each partner ; ( b ) the amount of time a partner is required to devote to the firm ; ( c ) the nature of each partner 's work ( legal aid or private , fee earning only or including a generous proportion of remuneration for office and appointments held ) ; ( d ) the extent to which the profits of separate departments within the firm differ substantially from one another ; ( e ) whether the firm 's policy tends to equality of reward ( and equality would be imposed under the Partnership Act in the absence of some other agreed ratio ) or whether , for example , it attempts to relate profit shares to salaries in comparable employments . |
| 26 | It may save you a lot of time a lot bother a lot of marks . |
| 27 | This was just as well , for I saw only just in time a hen crossing my path in the most leisurely manner . |
| 28 | In time a limit may be reached , not because of the depth of the pit but because it becomes too wide and approaches land that must not be disturbed . |
| 29 | But the anticlerical spirit was turned against the archbishop and the traditional , worldly , married clergy of Milan , not against the church as such , and won in time a measure of support from the reformed papacy . |
| 30 | But from Rome the British agent sent a warning while Charles was still a boy : ‘ Everybody says that he will be in time a far more dangerous enemy to the present establishment of the government of England than ever his father was . ’ |