Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of time [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , manual workers tended to be paid benefits for shorter periods of time and they received smaller amounts than non-manual workers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But just as all doctors have patients who consume disproportionate amounts of time so we have papers that slow us down . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Birds can also detect much smaller intervals of time than us . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This process whereby financial intermediaries lend for longer periods of time than they borrow is known as maturity transformation . |
| 8 | They can be encouraged to sit for gradually longer and longer periods of time until they can finish their meal in one sitting . |
| 9 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |