Example sentences of "[v-ing] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | or if you want to improve your organisation , then keeping a time log is a good place to start . |
| 2 | Instead , longitudinal studies incorporating a time dimension are also required for supplying historical perspective , together with a sharper appreciation of change through time and the conditions which generate it . |
| 3 | Although Coleman still had qualms about the misuse of media credentials , foreseeing a time when immigration officials around the world would automatically assume that any visiting journalist was a spy , it would have been hypocritical to complain . |
| 4 | He 'd never had a name as a chaser and I could n't imagine him picking a time like this to start . |
| 5 | Mr Wolski could not help remembering a time when he had been a fugitive outside the fences of Sobibor in the scrubland of the Parczew Forest . |
| 6 | If the early nineteen nineties are as testing a time for U S and U K markets as many people predict I 'm nonetheless confident that Pearson is better placed than most companies to withstand this . |
| 7 | He had the Jaguar prize firmly in his sights when opting for a steady clear round in Tuesday night 's Rover Classic , instead of attempting a time which might have made it more difficult for Nick Skelton to win on Burmah Serenade . |
| 8 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |
| 9 | ‘ I wrote a letter two days ago suggesting a meeting and this morning I got back a curt note suggesting a time . |
| 10 | Various positional and angular values can be retrieved and employed in the construction of elemental and system function diagrams , and then converted , using a time base , to give velocity and hence acceleration profiles ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 11 | On any given night you simply could n't see every decent band without inventing a time machine . |
| 12 | This can make editing a time consuming and confusing exercise when working with a large piece of music . |
| 13 | Academic booksellers and publishers are facing a time of profound change . |
| 14 | you 're doing a time consuming operation . |
| 15 | Before the debate , Gerald Kaufman , the party 's foreign affairs spokesman , criticised the resolution for its imprecision in not giving a time scale , and for ambiguity in not defining the precise level of spending required . |
| 16 | The difference grows as numbers increase ; with anything over 1000 enquiries all the cylinders would be likely to be referenced , thus giving a time of 20 × 10 ms or 2 seconds for the batched and sorted input , and 2000 × 30 ms or 60 seconds for the unsorted input . |
| 17 | And there 's Rachel giving him a big kiss , and there 's John Lee with a succulent piece of fried chicken , having a time . |
| 18 | The Lewisian rocks formed during the late Archaean — early Proterozoic eras , roughly indicating a time span of from c. 2800 m.y . |
| 19 | She returned to her room and felt so downcast that , choosing a time when she knew that her mother would be in , she phoned Reception for a call to England . |
| 20 | When the start of the track has to be detected , this will be modified ; the track index start will have been found — taking a time R/2 — and the index entry will have been located , read and processed during a single revolution ( in most cases ) . |
| 21 | In n it taking a time ? |
| 22 | If the demand for real balances function is rewritten in the following specific form where is nominal money demand and the price level then , taking natural logs and introducing a time subscript , |
| 23 | I said well you see I was making a time machine and all I needed was one more microchip and what was sitting right up under my nose ? |
| 24 | On the other hand , putting a time or place adverbial , such as today or on the shelf , say , at the beginning of the clause , carries more meaning because it is the result of choice : there are other positions in which it can occur . |
| 25 | The difficulty was finding a time to instruct them . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose the difficulty is going to be finding a time in the next couple of weeks when we 're both free . ’ |
| 27 | On 11 December 1990 , the General Commissioners issued precepts , under s 51(1) , TMA 1970 , requiring the companies to provide them with information and the accounts relating to the appeals , specifying a time limit of 50 days . |
| 28 | COMPUTING A time of technological turmoil |
| 29 | There is nothing to prevent a US resident transferring a time deposit denominated in dollars from Big Apple Bank 's New York branch to its London branch to earn a higher interest return as a euro-dollar time deposit . |
| 30 | Planning a time yeah ? right ? |