Example sentences of "the time on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1958 , Reginald Bassett lamented the fact ‘ that no study of the General Election of 1931 was made at the time on the lines of the extremely useful studies of the 1945 and subsequent General Elections sponsored by Nuffield College ’ . |
| 2 | Obviously we believe we can make up the time on roads we have been over quite a few times . ’ |
| 3 | Despite the initial support of the boycott by international operatic stars — most of whom were at the time on contract to work with him — Barneboim 's case did not excite much public sympathy in France . |
| 4 | Looking back at those debates on how we could fill in the time on our hands , the novelist Herbert Gold reflected that the Fifties were a time of ‘ happy people with happy problems ’ . |
| 5 | Are n't there more important things in my life that I could spend the time on that is currently taken up with exercise ? ’ |
| 6 | If the cells have a ‘ clock ’ that stops when they leave the zone the time on the clock will give them their position along the axis . |
| 7 | It is true to say that the only overweight animals are those cared for by humans who take more notice of the time on the clock than of natural feelings of hunger . |
| 8 | The point is , you see , that I did not ask you to go and look at the time on that clock ; I merely asked you to study the numerals on it . |
| 9 | In the Roman Empire , this ambivalence was demonstrated by the important role played by senior citizens , on the one hand , and their cruel subjection to the literary satire of the time on the other . |
| 10 | Quite apart from that , and even if the lights are fused properly , it will take double the time on the night itself . |
| 11 | The time recorded on two different watches , for example , can be perfectly associated : the time on one of them can be correctly predicted from the time on the other , but not because the time on one of them causes the time on the other ; altering the time on one of them would have absolutely no impact on the other . |
| 12 | The time recorded on two different watches , for example , can be perfectly associated : the time on one of them can be correctly predicted from the time on the other , but not because the time on one of them causes the time on the other ; altering the time on one of them would have absolutely no impact on the other . |
| 13 | The time recorded on two different watches , for example , can be perfectly associated : the time on one of them can be correctly predicted from the time on the other , but not because the time on one of them causes the time on the other ; altering the time on one of them would have absolutely no impact on the other . |
| 14 | The time recorded on two different watches , for example , can be perfectly associated : the time on one of them can be correctly predicted from the time on the other , but not because the time on one of them causes the time on the other ; altering the time on one of them would have absolutely no impact on the other . |
| 15 | The time recorded on two different watches , for example , can be perfectly associated : the time on one of them can be correctly predicted from the time on the other , but not because the time on one of them causes the time on the other ; altering the time on one of them would have absolutely no impact on the other . |
| 16 | Both halves have their merits , but together their appeal will be limited to those teachers of computer science , who if lecturing on the impact of motor traffic on society , would spend half the time on the way sparking plugs work . |
| 17 | Oh yah , d' you r'member the time on the Fourth o' June we broke into Tairp and airt all the long eggs and threw up all over pop room and ha ha ha ha ! |
| 18 | Because Revson just did a small number of American races and spent the rest of the time on the FI circuit . |
| 19 | But Cadle cares for English basketball enough to have stayed here for 10 years — most of the time on a budget even Norman Lamont could manage . |
| 20 | By now you 'll be out and about all the time on your scooter but , just in case the second Thursday of the month should dawn wet and windy again , I have chosen yours as this month 's Star Letter . |
| 21 | He spent most of the time on the phone with his bookie . |
| 22 | Much of the time on the screen he wanders around helplessly in a freshly starched little Dior number looking for a line worth saying . |
| 23 | I mean , you slide around half the time on your bottom ( just like Joanne Conway ! ) . |
| 24 | Musical chat shows : This type of programme fills the majority of the time on local radio . |
| 25 | Erm well coal er is quite a dirty fuel when it 's burnt erm D Didcot power station er this is the sort of pollution you get from Didcot power station , it does n't give the time on there er you might be surprised to , to realize that 's actually er per day erm that 's the amount of pollution you get per day from a large coalfired power station . |
| 26 | We spent most of the time on the planet acid : the best place for us to be . |
| 27 | Puts watch on table and records the time on a pad . ) |
| 28 | so we 'd be better off , spending the time on on graphs . |
| 29 | In taking the time on it 's own , erm that that 's not not a problem I would have thought , for most people , cos if they 're making Sunday lunches anyway , then i it 's in the middle of the morning one way or the other . |
| 30 | One small colony remained all the time on their beach , an isolated solitary place of grey pebbles below greenish breakwaters ; high above them the blind-eyed office blocks glittered pink and yellow in the sun . |