Example sentences of "[noun pl] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in the same village , there would be two different sorts of time . |
| 2 | ‘ Dog ’ remains dog through centuries of time and cultural change . |
| 3 | There are a number of aspects of " pure " time deixis , where there is no direct interaction with non-deictic methods of time reckoning . |
| 4 | But this did not prevent claims being made for motivational research and the like as extravagant as those made for corn cures and patent all-purpose medicines by the pedlars and mountebanks of time immemorial . |
| 5 | And the population of London swelled , both with naive readers of Time , and with young people from across the country . |
| 6 | But how do we get some feel for spans of time stretching into millions of years ? |
| 7 | It is possible to argue that he wrote in the proportion to which each location claimed or received his spans of time and attention — and as he spent more than twice the length of time out on the islands as he did getting there , the greater part of his book addresses the west . |
| 8 | Later we shall need to relate the squares of time intervals in different frames . |
| 9 | At the same time , also by means of forebrain action , all kinds of circumstances may impede the former function — inhibition arising from earlier training and experience , considerations of time and place , conscious moral outlooks etc . |
| 10 | In much the same way implicit or explicit models for describing the evolution of stream channels or drainage basins commonly are used to make simplifying assumptions that eliminate considerations of time , history and sometimes even progressive change . ’ |
| 11 | DECADES make convenient units of time for historians , sociologists and pundits of every stripe , but the people who live and work through them do n't share the same enthusiasm for tying everything into bundles or stopping precisely at midnight on December 31 . |
| 12 | AGE — ( duration of life at death , at birth of child , at delivery of fetus , at marriage or at another event ) is the estimated or calculated interval between the date of birth and the date of occurrence of the event , expressed in completed units of time . |
| 13 | Hall has made the covers of Time as well as the Village Voice , and ascended into ratings heaven ( only one rival tops his statistics : the evergreen Johnny Carson Show ) . |
| 14 | Throughout Iranian thought there was a tendency to dualism , and it is therefore not surprising that two distinct forms or aspects of time were recognized : indivisible time , that is the eternal ‘ now ’ , and time that is divisible into successive parts . |
| 15 | Whereas for most Greeks and Romans , whether they believed in cycles or not , the dominant aspects of time were the present and the past , Christianity directed man 's attention to the future . |
| 16 | These aspects of time control start from the communications problem , discussed in Chapter 11 . |
| 17 | … the dimension of time has been shattered , we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears . |
| 18 | Let it not bear the traces of work , the traces of time . |
| 19 | In the purply warm twilight the tiny traces of time did n't show , he looked exactly as always . |
| 20 | But that process is only possible at all because of the Incarnation , Passion , Resurrection and Ascension of Christ who lives the love of God triumphant in and beyond the sins of time . |
| 21 | There are pebbles under the feet of Aphrodite 's helpers on the Ludovisi throne ( fig. 83 ) ; and one thinks also of the pebbled floor of the tomb on the Sotades Painter 's cup ( fig. 114 ) , where the ambiguities of time are likewise reminiscent of the Troy . |
| 22 | You know that you 've arrived , when the demands of time give way to the enjoyment of the moment . |
| 23 | Any Linguistics-based study , it was urged , was conceptually difficult , and made heavy demands of time and energy . |
| 24 | He engages with a sense of Being eternally present , not driven and limited by the demands of time . |
| 25 | He had told his wife that morning over breakfast in their bungalow on the edge of Barashevo and within faint sight of the outer wooden fence of Zone I , that he stood to gain a great prize … not tomorrow , not next week , but he had time , he had months of time to break this bastard . |
| 26 | It is also an independent feeding method which involves a separate rod and line to lower the dropper in , or , if used with the same rod and line with which you are fishing , takes up precious minutes of time when your hookbait could be in the water ; valuable minutes when the barbel are mad on feed . |
| 27 | If you have approximately ten minutes of work left to reach a good stopping point and , if you have approximately ten minutes of time available ( e.g. before schoolchildren arrive home ) THEN either a few , some or all stitches will immediately fall off the machine and ruin all your plans to finish on time . |
| 28 | That it 's almost impossible for the human brain to concentrate for more than ten minutes of time on any |
| 29 | They often involve large investments of time spent in training and practice , and these processes can perhaps be simplified . |
| 30 | For the reason given above this might well be totally wrong for large values of time . |