Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] of time a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Tacograph readings are used to enforce European safety limits on the length of time a driver is behind the wheel without a break . |
| 10 | Tachograph readings are used to enforce European safety limits on the length of time a driver is behind the wheel without a break . |
| 11 | This stage is followed by a search for means to implement the desired change and over a period of time a cycle of problems are handled by this method . |
| 12 | This is not an exact method as the rate of fading is determined by the length of time a rug has been exposed to the light and by the intensity of the light source . |