Example sentences of "of time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waste of time me cutting , of course ! |
| 2 | Over a period of time they will all be ill . |
| 3 | Not too much has been done in the mountains , hardly surprising given the length of time they have been dry , but Dai Lampard snatched a great ascent with Mother of Mercy E5 6a . |
| 4 | Doses received by local people would depend on the amount of time they spent near areas of higher radioactivity , and on whether any of the radioactivity passed through the food chain . |
| 5 | You would wonder how they could eat at all after the amount of time they spent talking about food . ’ |
| 6 | Doubtless their minds are uncluttered by the thought that in the fullness of time they themselves will appear on the list . |
| 7 | These relationships assume great importance and for a period of time they are probably the most significant ones we have . |
| 8 | Many women found it difficult to put an exact figure on the amount of time they spent on the various areas of farm work . |
| 9 | The length of time they spent there and the types of homes involved are shown in Table 1 . |
| 10 | Glasses are not particularly stable materials , and in the course of time they devitrify , acquiring a micro-crystalline structure , and losing their glassy transparency . |
| 11 | The age at which children go to school , the amount of time they spend there and the disposition of that time have the very greatest bearing on the learning that is planned and provided for them . |
| 12 | As he studied the list of names of men who had evaded the Dragoons , the names of 2 Ayrshiremen took his attention , both for the length of time they had eluded ‘ justice ’ . |
| 13 | Clients are charged for the amount of time they take up , including the length of the interview and any telephone calls . |
| 14 | In the wild this may allow them to escape as the predator may lose interest in them , but in the laboratory the length of time they remain in this state before righting themselves is a good measure of their fear level . |
| 15 | The length of time they have been waiting for a house or factors such as overcrowding and damp are far more important than marital status , Mrs Smith said . |
| 16 | For behaviours which do not have obvious start and finish points , watching television or paying attention to a lesson for example , it is more appropriate to measure the length of time they last . |
| 17 | The includers are not always merely disinterested advocates of a philosophy , but people who have become so through experience , through the sheer amount of time they spend with members of the excluded social group . |
| 18 | Turning to those who were referred by the GP to another agency , a major problem experienced by this group was the length of time they had to wait for an appointment ( see also Watson 1985 ) . |
| 19 | To analyse what managers actually do , Mintzberg categorised their activities and calculated the amount of time they spent on each . |
| 20 | Most have bodies with a skin so soft , thin and permeable that if they are exposed to direct sunshine for any length of time they dry out and die . |
| 21 | Well , in the nick of time they realized that all that Anna was wailing about was some French floozy the prince was n't even particularly attached to ( a crony of Anna 's , a censorious old toad who lived in hotels and got everything half wrong , had spilt the beans to her ) . |
| 22 | Above all , attention has concentrated on the ways in which in the course of time they managed to transform their basis of subsistence , increase and concentrate populations and by making possible a finer subdivision of labour promote advances in technology which in turn generated further cycles of progressive change . |
| 23 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 24 | Weeks went by and months went by ; in the course of time they had a little son . |
| 25 | You can then complete it and then he will make an appointment with you to come to your house and he 'll spend quite a lot of time they really do ascertaining your personal circumstances . |
| 26 | If doctors are employed in a unit the amount of time they spend with a patient may be as little as fifteen minutes twice a week for a short-term attender and an astonishingly low four or five minutes per week for a long-term attender . |
| 27 | As Bennett ( 1978 , 1987 ) points out , one of the most important determinants of pupils ' learning is simply the amount of time they spend in it . |
| 28 | We will discover whether there is a real commitment or whether it is simply words which they hope that the Scottish public will forget were ever uttered so that in the fullness of time they can shunt the companies off to the private sector to do with them as it will . |
| 29 | But the mines became increasingly unprofitable despite efforts to improve them , and in course of time they were " farmed out " to Emanuel and Daniel , both sons of old Höchstetter . |
| 30 | While the part-time handymen do tidy up the area from time to time the amount of time they can devote to this is strictly limited . ’ |