Example sentences of "of [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is that enormous amounts of professional time and effort will be absorbed in explaining apparent differences between classes and schools . |
| 2 | While this is obviously demanding of professional time and effort , it need not be particularly difficult to achieve , and the investment should repay itself with dividends . |
| 3 | Manucchi gives a rather patronizing description of characteristics and temperaments of the eunuchs of Mughal times . |
| 4 | Associated with the growth of the proletariat in the towns of feudal times were other processes which together led to the concentration of the means of production in ever-fewer hands , a process which ultimately led to the capitalism of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Martin Randall believes in allowing his clients off the leash for a good deal of unorganised time , which enabled me to enjoy my favourite occupation : finding my own way around a new city . |
| 6 | Many statistical and econometric methods for the analysis and forecasting of economic time series are available to the empirical researcher . |
| 7 | As with the other phyla , the great span of geological time has seen different groups rise to prominence , decline , to be replaced by others . |
| 8 | Through aeons of geological time , rivers , in the wake of glaciers , have helped shape the very structure of our landscape . |
| 9 | This in turn means that over the course of geological time , the continents have been , and are , getting steadily bigger … do n't worry , though , the extra real-estate coming on to the market wo n't make mortgages any easier to get ! |
| 10 | On a time-scale which may not coincide exactly with our present scientific calculations of geological time , they say that the cycle commences with a period of 1.7 million years when the power of the Life Force is immeasurably stronger and more evident in physical affairs than it is today . |
| 11 | This movement , which though tiny in real time is immense in the aeons of geological time , is wholly responsible for the other dramatic features of the Pacific . |
| 12 | The very large collections of rocks , minerals and fossils from many parts of the world demonstrate the succession of changes that have taken place throughout the Earth over the vast span of geological time . |
| 13 | ‘ It puts one in touch with the sheer scale of geological time , and therefore with the infinite and the ineffable . ’ |
| 14 | Darwin introduced a new element into the equation because he started not from the fossil record but from field studies , which forced him to consider the real-life pressures acting upon species in the course of geological time . |
| 15 | While Darwinian processes are likely to be only one of several mechanisms responsible for evolutionary change in form ( there is much debate , which need not concern us here , about the relative contribution of these other mechanisms ) , the point for the present is that all forms of life on earth today are clearly the results of comparable evolutionary pressures over the whole of geological time . |
| 16 | Some general explanation is surely needed for such a wide distribution of such a unique facies during a comparatively short period of geological time . |
| 17 | Perhaps it is better , rather than roaming back into the recesses of geological time to consider the sudden and simultaneous extinctions that happened in Our geological yesterday . |
| 18 | Nevertheless we are always faced with a contradiction between rates of deposition and the known thickness of rock for a particular period of geological time . |
| 19 | Clearly any break is a disadvantage in a section that sets out to typify a whole division of geological time , but here it is worse , for one of those breaks is now thought ( at least by one eminent British palaeontologist ) to conceal the whole of the British Portlandian . |
| 20 | All this leads me to the conclusion that the greater part of the passage of geological time has left over most of the earth no more than Shakespeare 's " gap in nature " . |
| 21 | The object of the first chapter was to draw attention to the basic oddity of the stratigraphical record in that particular facies were remarkably widespread during particular periods of geological time . |
| 22 | Let us consider the concept of the stratigraphical unit in historical terms that can be more easily appreciated than the unimaginable vistas of geological time . |
| 23 | On this basis , one can plot in the tropical belt for most periods of geological time , though the margin of error is such that sometimes they fit in with drifting hypotheses and sometimes they do not . |
| 24 | The immensity of geological time entitles us to postulate more improbable coincidences than a court of law would allow but , even so , there are limits . |
| 25 | There are ways in which mutation and natural selection together can lead , over the long span of geological time , to a building up of complexity that has more in common with addition than with subtraction . |
| 26 | We are unlikely to witness arms races in dynamic progress , because they are unlikely to be running at any particular ‘ moment ’ of geological time , such as our time . |
| 27 | The whole area , a band 50 miles wide and hundreds or maybe thousands of miles long , is alive — rearing and plunging , writhing and creaking — as the future shape of a portion of the world is determined for the next aeon of geologic time . |
| 28 | Then perhaps , " Try again next year " , or " WOT ( waste of time ) or , more vehement , " WOBT " ( waste of bloody time ) . |
| 29 | He said what a waste of bloody time and then he gave me a five-pound note . " |
| 30 | ‘ Blanche , I 'm telling you , it 's a waste of bloody time going to the spooks . |