Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] of time [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Signal morphology was analysed by the probability density function for the amount of time the signal spent away from the electrical baseline . |
| 2 | Other things being equal , the higher the average for the length of time a person is unemployed , the greater will be the number unemployed at any moment in time . |
| 3 | It must not rely on the measurement of subjective impressions such as the number of times a child annoyed a parent ; it must be concerned with observable behaviour . |
| 4 | The symptom index was calculated as the number of times the symptom occurred when the pH was below four , divided by the total number of times the symptom was reported ; this quotient was then multiplied by 100 to give the percentage of symptoms associated with reflux . |
| 5 | In the singulative mode there is a balance between the number of times an event occurs and the number of times it is narrated ( an event occurring once is narrated once and an event occurring x times is narrated x times ) . |
| 6 | Moreover , the findings challenge conventional assumptions about the amounts of time the different subjects should be allocated . |
| 7 | There was a little discussion about the length of time a perfectly made cup of tea ought to be brewed and a little anguish because there was no milk to offer the guests . |
| 8 | The size of such settlements can easily be overestimated as the number of buildings must be viewed as a factor of the length of time the site was occupied and the frequency with which buildings were replaced . |
| 9 | I know that his party would have preferred a separate Bill for Scotland , introduced by the Scottish Office , but it understands that because of a shortage of time the only way to achieve its objective is for one Bill to cover England , Wales and Scotland . |
| 10 | The results ( e.g. Figure 3.9 ) can be plotted in a graph of the rate of correct choices against the number of times the rat has been made to run through the maze ( where a ‘ correct ’ choice is one in the direction in which it will be rewarded , or in the opposite direction from which it will be shocked ) . |
| 11 | With the passage of time the contribution that these families made to the total genetic diversity of the population became subordinate to the seedling recruits : although the number of seedlings appears to be very small , their contribution to the total number of genetic individuals in the population is clearly significant in determining the number of clones or genets that are present . |
| 12 | Because those rules were not written , memory was crucial — and with the passage of time the rules were likely to be further modified , reflecting imperfect recollections of what had been done before . |
| 13 | The digestive enzymes , however , do not appear to be the main agents producing bone modification , and it is the level of acidity combined with the length of time the food is in the stomach that are the main determining factors . |
| 14 | For an aeon of time the words meant nothing . |
| 15 | And , as a consequence , a phenomenon , peculiar to the species , called ‘ belief ’ , takes hold like an infection , or on-going plague , and in the course of time a formidable hierarchical structure develops . |
| 16 | ‘ In the course of time the present [ 1954 ] conflict between Communism and Democracy , between East and West , is likely to pass just as the religious wars of the 16th and 17th century have passed . |
| 17 | It is to be hoped that in the course of time the word ‘ fear ’ used in the context of the foregoing will be abandoned in favour of the word ‘ foreboding ’ , for the conscience , once properly developed should give warning rather than frighten , and therefore enable the individual to avoid that which could give rise to real fear . |
| 18 | In the course of time the pirates turned merchants became a great hereditary patriciate , and Venice came to rule a mercantile empire much akin to that of ancient Athens , even in the end to acquire a large contado along and behind the Italian coast — but only after it had depended for centuries on piracy and trade for its food and livelihood . |
| 19 | Suppose that in the course of time the vowel /a : / in a particular language becomes open /α:/ , as it did in Southern Middle English in words of the type home , stone ( OE há0m , stá0n ) . |
| 20 | In the course of time the Mercian kingdom also came to embrace much of the territory , for example , of the Wocensaete or Wreocensaete , who took their name from the Wrekin and dominated the north Shropshire plain , and it would probably be the case , if charter-material had survived for this area of north-west Mercia analogous to that which has survived for the Hwicce , that kings of the Wreocensaete emerged in varying degrees of dependence on or subjection to the Mercian ruler . |
| 21 | But other things took people unawares : the set devoted to the music of the Second Viennese School , the Mahler Sixth , and in the fullness of time the great recordings of the Mahler Ninth and a fine Nielsen Fourth . |
| 22 | And in the fullness of Time the seed S grew into a beautiful Tree , which is what T stands for . |
| 23 | Hitler himself provided encouragement for such opinion when , in his major speech in the Berlin Sportpalast on 3 October 1941 , he not only defended the invasion of the Soviet Union as a preventive war , pre-empting in the nick of time a planned Bolshevik assault on the Reich , but also gave the impression that the back of the Soviet fighting capability had already been broken . |
| 24 | During the period of improvement the parents will notice a reduction in the number of times the child wets at night and also in the size of the wet patch . |
| 25 | However , the proportion of women who are full-time housewives has significantly dropped during the post-war period and , since married women who have paid employment spend less time on housework than those without paid work , this means that overall , there has been a significant decline in the amount of time the average woman will spend doing housework . |
| 26 | She was in fact very thin but had this huge wire frame around her ’ It turned out that she 'd been coming in a couple of times a week , stealing hundreds of pounds worth of clothes , hanging them on her frame then walking out . |
| 27 | To confine the interaction to what is known is the safest course , and there are limits to the number of times a teacher can reply — as primary teachers are encouraged to — ‘ I do n't know , but let's find out , shall we ? ’ without straining their credibility and frustrating their pupils . |
| 28 | There is no limit to the number of times the button may be pressed , and it seems that mourners in cars queueing behind can get somewhat restive . |
| 29 | Spatial frequency is less intuitively obvious but is related to the number of times the display cycles from light to dark to light again as you go a fixed distance in a single direction across the display . |
| 30 | No doubt this was for the good practical reason that as royal taxation became more frequent separate and additional councils for the church 's own business became more inconvenient : there was a limit to the number of times the clergy could be summoned from their parishes and livings to provincial assemblies in London or elsewhere . |