Example sentences of "[num] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Journal of Educational Psychology published an article on the negative correlation between fertility and intelligence by Gerald O'Hanlon in 1940 and an attack by Charlotte Fleming on the assumption that socio-economic level and intelligence were highly related in 1943 The Times Educational Supplement reviewed Maguiness 's book Environment and Heredity without querying the causal assumption that intelligence was mainly inherited . |
| 2 | Zhdanov , in particular , evidently did not share Bukharin 's view that in 1934 the time was past when literary criticism should be a " battering ram which smashed the enemy " For Zhdanov and company the socio-political climate was ripe for battering and smashing the ideological enemies of the Soviet Union with every available cultural and artistic weapon . |
| 3 | By 750 the time had come for the caliphate itself to be transformed and for the Umayyad regime to be dislodged . |
| 4 | In 1972 the Times Literary Supplement carried , over a number of issues , a survey into the state of English in various universities . " |
| 5 | 2 The time at which reasonableness is considered It is generally accepted that the relevant time at which reasonableness is to be considered is the time of entering the contract . |
| 6 | When Thomas Cook died at the age of eighty-four in 1892 The Times obituary was fulsome in praise of his achievements , but bemoaned the fact that he could not change the character of the average tourist : |
| 7 | And in 1963 The Times carried the cheerful news that a Mr Cock had married a Miss Prick . |
| 8 | Rob morning Twenty one minutes to six the time , if you 'd like to give me an early ring , then it 's . |
| 9 | There were reports on Feb. 20 that US and UK businesses had clashed over post-war contracts , and on Feb. 21 The Times reported that the UK government had begun negotiations with the Kuwaiti government-in-exile for an extension to a deadline for bids , after UK companies claimed that US businesses had secured an unfair advantage in bidding for postwar reconstruction work . |
| 10 | In 1984 The Times reported an interview with a Bahrain newspaper in which Foreign Minister Tareq Aziz charged the Gulf Arab states with ‘ dragging their feet over help against Iran ’ . |
| 11 | Similarly , in 3 the time span which is indicated by " now " is limited to the few seconds immediately following the utterance , whereas in 4 the reference of " now " extends well before and after the time of utterance . |
| 12 | 1 The time of introduction |
| 13 | Our descent was made in one-fifth the time it had taken us to climb to our record-breaking altitude . |
| 14 | By April 19 The Times reported that the police had visited the offices of a number of Istanbul publishing houses and that printers had cancelled orders to print 18 periodicals deemed in the past to have shown some sympathy to the Kurdish cause . |