Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of time [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or maybe it is simply that a second to them is a vastly longer subjective experience of time than it is to us and other creatures , possessed of a slower metabolic rate . |
| 2 | Moreover , manual workers tended to be paid benefits for shorter periods of time and they received smaller amounts than non-manual workers . |
| 3 | Because people moving at different speeds measure different distances between events , they must also measure different intervals of time if they are to agree on the speed of light . |
| 4 | So we are talking in general terms about being willing to share our time , energy , space and care , particularly with people who have been recently bereaved through some major form of loss , maybe for a shod period of time while they readjust , maybe for a long time as the person or people involved learn to face life 's vicissitudes alone . |
| 5 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 6 | There was a slight awkward pause and in the tiny fraction of time that it lasted Harriet experienced a stab of pique . |
| 7 | I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves |
| 8 | Okay , fair enough , it was turned over on appeal eventually erm but erm it was a bit of a miscarriage of justice being kept in prison for that period of time until it was overturned pleaded guilty to another murder but that 's by the by . |
| 9 | The most constructive move was when Linda Bellos stood up and announced that she thought that the group was a complete waste of time unless it had power , and to have power it would have to be a Council Committee with the right to interfere in all other committees . |
| 10 | Borrowing lecture notes is often a complete waste of time because you 've missed the impact . |
| 11 | Which is a total waste of time cos they 'll rewrite it all in a year 's time . |
| 12 | I mean to have to work out from first principles erm four plus three is seven every time , you may be able to do that with great understanding , but there 's an awful waste of time if you 've got to understand it each time . |
| 13 | As its name implies , this is based on your average earnings over the total period of time that you are participating in the scheme . |
| 14 | Sorry , to take a little bit of time but I did point out we 've got two motions on the Health Service and erm , I think it 's a little bit more important than just er , formally seconding . |
| 15 | Right I 'll be for the rest of the tutorial really , erm find yourselves something to do , I just really want to follow up er the little amount of time that I spent with second years er looking at their action plans . |
| 16 | But just as all doctors have patients who consume disproportionate amounts of time so we have papers that slow us down . |
| 17 | By the following weekend , Ned had begun to lose interest in his lover and within two weeks , much to her distress , he began leaving her alone for long periods of time while he chased after a very attractive Border Collie who had just moved into a neighbouring street . |
| 18 | There are relevant stair er Chairman which you can look out of place at the present moment of time but they will need to be addressed at some point in time in the future and therefore one could be forgiven for wanting to prioritise various but in general terms , the strategy that has been er looked at is the progress of St Albans in general , there may be small elements of it and some of these have already touched upon but in general that is no sound strategy er which over a period of time and in the process of that it will be essential to monitor erm the effect of some of the changes as you go forward to see in fact whether the other elements of strategy that were erm put in to that er work were in fact still necessary and whether they should be have some . |
| 19 | Well I would say that erm , in my time , er when they became unemployed , most of them could pick up a job pretty easy because I was speaking about from nineteen forty eight onwards , and of course er it was shortly after a war , there was plenty of work , and therefore most of them could pick up a job in a reasonable space of time and they would n't be idle too long . |
| 20 | like if you ever work in a children 's ward you can always tell the children that 've been hospitalised for a great length of time cos you can do anything with them |
| 21 | His arrival seemed to set the conveyor belt in motion , and she lost all track of time as she dealt with one actor after another , flinching every time the door opened , yet aware of a peculiar emptiness when Dane failed to show up . |
| 22 | Birds can also detect much smaller intervals of time than us . |
| 23 | Travel back into those mists of time and you will meet many who have gone before and who also may have experienced these sudden sea frets , for that is what these mists are . |
| 24 | And thirdly we have to satisfy you that in the circumstances of the operation the police were justified in restraining Mr with handcuffs for the short period of time that he was restrained and in addition Mrs who you will remember was restrained in her lounge , she was told she could n't leave the lounge , again for a few minutes . |
| 25 | You can borrow small sums for a short period of time or you can borrow large amounts for many years , such as a mortgage . |
| 26 | As I work in the Middle East , I usually only have a short space of time while I 'm home to sort out my musical needs and Colin from my local store , Heads Hands and Feet , has helped me tremendously over the years . |
| 27 | Such was the improvement in turbo cars in such a short space of time that they were soon capable of producing anything up to 1300 b.h.p . |
| 28 | In the very short space of time that we have available this afternoon there are three subjects that I need simply to bring to the attention of Synod . |
| 29 | He should n't be in her thoughts at all , and yet she found that in the short space of time since she had met him he had sunk in , wormed his way into her mind with his disturbing home truths . |
| 30 | The fact is , it 's condensed into a very short space of time so you have n't got much chance to think . |