Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not to learn of the German reaction for some nine months , when the commandos again visited the Lofoten Islands , but the world heard for the first time of British commandos that night in German broadcasts : ‘ Light naval forces destroyed several fishing boats and landed commandos in the Norwegian skerries where they took prisoner some Germans and Norwegians . ’ |
| 2 | Complete pan relief occurred after a median time of 1 day ( 25% quantile : 0.0–75% quantile : 3.0 ) in the amoxicillin/omperazole group and of 6 days ( 25% quantile : 5.0–75% quantile : 10.0 ) in the triple therapy group ( p=0.03 ) . |
| 3 | In addition , as reported in the Financial Times of March 1 the government had a further $850,000,000 made available from the IMF , the World Bank and the Japanese Export-Import Bank to fund more reductions in debt or the debt-service burden . |
| 4 | The impurity is not confined to the actual time of bleeding , but continues for seven days beyond the last sign of vaginal blood , thus effectively confining women to this state of impurity for twelve to fifteen days of the month . |
| 5 | The Shanghai stock exchange was reported by the Financial Times of Oct. 23 to have gained approval to offer for the first time to foreign investors shares worth $35,000,000-50,000,000 in the state-owned Shanghai Vacuum , the biggest quoted company on the exchange . |
| 6 | A major theme reported by the Financial Times of Feb. 27 was the effort of developing countries to adopt market-economy structural changes and to compete efficiently in the changed international climate . |
| 7 | Living in the troubled times of the late fourth and early fifth centuries , St Augustine regarded the Christian era as the age of senility and decay that would lead to the seventh age when time would end , although he was careful not to forecast a definite date for this . |
| 8 | Alternatively , he or she may have a self-imposed rule not to drink before a certain time of day or on particular days , weeks or months or even years . |
| 9 | According to the Financial Times of Jan. 19 , the PLO chairman , Yassir Arafat , had recently threatened to call a PNC meeting and resign if the current peace efforts reached a dead end . |
| 10 | Political discussions had centred on the Gulf crisis and on the recent Arab deaths in Jerusalem [ see p. 37759 ] ; all were able to condemn the latter , and according to the Financial Times of Oct. 11 " the Arab side appeared encouraged by what they [ saw ] as French recent acceptance of some linkage between the Gulf and the Arab-Israeli problem " . |
| 11 | The country had the highest sulphur dioxide emission per head of population in Europe [ see p. 36792 ] and according to the Financial Times of Feb. 21 , 1990 , one power station burning brown coal in Cottbus produced more pollution annually than Norway and Denmark together . |
| 12 | According to the Financial Times of April 26 , 1990 , a joint IMF/World Bank report on the Brady plan stated that fewer deals had been concluded than hoped for and that negotiations between banks and debtors had often taken too long . |
| 13 | In the event , however , Shamir 's meeting with Bush in Washington on Dec. 12 was friendly and , according to the Financial Times of Dec. 12 , " appeared to smooth over relations between the two leaders " . |
| 14 | In a first step towards removing massive food subsidies , a pilot project to replace state subsidised grain rationing with a free market was to begin on April 1 , according to the Financial Times of March 12 . |
| 15 | According to the Financial Times of June 17 , the government signed an agreement , backed by the World Bank , with a consortium of Western companies for the construction of an oil-fired power station worth US$1,300 million , 50 km west of Karachi . |
| 16 | The meeting , reportedly called at the instigation of Japan , was dominated by concern over the recent advance of the US dollar which , according to the Financial Times of June 24 , had risen by up to 20 per cent against the German deutschmark and other currencies in recent weeks [ see pp. 37978 ; 38170 ] . |
| 17 | According to the Financial Times of July 17 , foreign aid agencies had so far donated US$400,000,000 while an additional US$400,000,000 had been generated from internal sources . |
| 18 | There was confusion , however , over the position of the two central banks , Gosbank and Vneshekonombank ( Bank for foreign economic relations ) , whose responsibilities were transferred back from RSFSR to central control on Aug. 29 , and whose chairmen , respectively Viktor Gerashchenko and Yuri Moskovsky were reinstated , according to the Financial Times of Aug. 30 , partly as a result of pressure from European banks . |
| 19 | According to the Financial Times of Sept. 19 , the Economic Committee would replace the majority of ministries , which were functioning under their deputy ministers after the resignation of the whole Cabinet in August [ ibid . ] . |
| 20 | According to the Financial Times of Oct. 3 , the government was unaffected by the unco-operativeness of the unions , which were " being written out of Mr Solchaga 's script " . |
| 21 | Further legislation tabled in 1991 involved ( i ) major educational reforms ( aimed according to the Financial Times of April 24 , 1991 , at " humanizing the gruelling baccalauréat school-leaving examination " to make it achievable for a larger proportion of pupils , by simplifying the syllabuses of the different baccalauréats , shortening and alleviating the school working week and modernizing teaching methods ) ; ( ii ) steps to deal with France 's growing urban problems [ see below and pp. 38113-4 ; 38197-98 ; 38299 ] ; ( iii ) Corsica [ see below ] ; and ( iv ) a new privatization policy [ see p. 38156 ] . |
| 22 | According to the Financial Times of Oct. 18 , the formal approval by ministers of the US decision to scrap battlefield nuclear weapons had helped postpone the airing of differences over the deployment of tactical air-to-surface missiles ( TASM ) which a number of NATO 's European partners , especially Germany , were reluctant to accept [ see also pp. 36476-77 ; 37931 ; 38457-58 ] . |
| 23 | Many of the ministries based in Moscow and responsible for specific branches of industry would be reconstituted as semi-independent corporations , according to the Financial Times of Nov. 6 . |
| 24 | According to the Financial Times of Nov. 22 , the constitution owed much to the French system , allowing substantial presidential powers . |
| 25 | Legislation streamlining agricultural laws was approved during March , according to the Financial Times of March 20 , amending 20 existing laws and decrees , and clarifying land tenure rules and pricing and credit policies . |
| 26 | According to the Financial Times of March 9 , the SCDM faction advocated a " a more left-wing and nationalist platform " and the split showed " the growing nationalism pervading all political parties in the Slovak republic " . |
| 27 | Both the French government and French farming unions traditionally favoured linking farm incomes mainly to prices rather than to " social handouts " ( although , according to the Financial Times of May 22 , there was in late 1991 " a growing realization by farming leaders that some kind of social help was needed to enable an ageing farming population with few successors to retire peacefully " ) . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , according to the Financial Times of Aug. 13 , the State Council set up a special group to co-ordinate the government 's response to the Shenzhen riot , headed by Zou Jiahua , a Vice-Premier and the Minister in charge of the State Planning Commission . |
| 29 | The government 's priorities were , according to the Financial Times of Oct. 9 , " to cut a growing budget deficit , speed up privatization of state-owned enterprises , depoliticize pay bargaining , and to sustain the export-led recovery in industrial output without reigniting inflation " . |
| 30 | According to the Financial Times of Nov. 6 a Russian trade delegation visited Syria in early November for talks on the issue of Syria 's US$15,000 million military debt to the former Soviet Union , resulting in " little progress " . |