Example sentences of "[prep] time [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at the best of times fighting in the ranks can cause disarray and confusion in the army . |
| 2 | The quantity of detail and the resultant record size will also affect the amount of time involved in the creation of a single record . |
| 3 | The amount of time involved in the process will vary from institution to institution according to size , but also — more importantly — according to the procedures it adopts . |
| 4 | Comparison with teaching in a traditional classroom course of the same length of time led to the use of CAI for all the SCORPIO training . |
| 5 | By assigning elasticities and values of time obtained from the literature , it will assess the response of each group to different levels of road pricing , the extent to which each group benefits or loses , and the impact of these different group responses on the overall performance of road pricing . |
| 6 | You should continue to keep the time log to see whether the actual use of time conforms to the goals you set in the Action Plan . |
| 7 | She spent a lot of time looking at the floor , but her shoulders had become demonstrably assertive . |
| 8 | We spent a lot of time looking through the window at ‘ pictures ’ . |
| 9 | These may be for short periods of time to account for the non-matching of the firm 's payments and receipts from its business . |
| 10 | These books are both related to the exhibition On The Passage of a Few People Through a Brief Period of Time presented at the Musée national d'art moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou , the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London , and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston , Massachusetts during 1989 — 90 . |
| 11 | This includes allowing plenty of time to talk through the impact of events . |
| 12 | If parents are to be given a reasonable amount of time to talk with the teacher and some choice in the timing of the appointment then it may be best to spread the event over two days . |
| 13 | I had allowed plenty of time to return to the Commons to vote , but the train was one and a half hours late . |
| 14 | The summer holidays had begun and she had plenty of time to spend in the shop , helping Mr Evans and watching him and wondering … |
| 15 | That may seem anything but recent , but remember that a million years is a relatively insignificant span of time compared with the age of the Earth , at present reckoned at about 4,600 million years . |
| 16 | My Oscars are spending a lot of time moping on the bottom of the tank . |
| 17 | The amount of time given to the development of the basics , the school 's approach to equal opportunities , special needs work , sex education , multi-cultural and anti-racist education and pupil assessment will be seen in action . |
| 18 | In the early universe , in which there is a very marked arrow of time given by the expansion , these interactions could produce more particles than antiparticles . |
| 19 | I was already forty-five minutes late for a dental appointment and had plenty of time to reflect upon the day . |
| 20 | Military adventures abroad that extend for any length of time depend on the legislature being willing to provide the necessary funding and the Senate 's approval of treaties can , by no means be taken for granted . |
| 21 | He spent a lot of time swaggering about the place , flexing his muscles and telling everyone what he was going to do with those ‘ foolish little feller-me-lads ’ if they showed up . |
| 22 | This inhibits her sexual cycles for varying periods of time depending on the species it 's about two years . |
| 23 | Because of time lags in the production process , the cost of replacing inventories may well have risen by the time that the raw materials are used to make finished goods and then sold . |
| 24 | All they 've got to go on is that she spent a lot of time lying on the sofa , and that 's hardly unusual for a lady in her time and circumstances . |
| 25 | I spent a lot of time lying on the couch in the living room , watching day-time television with a sneer on my face and my books on my lap , making snide remarks at the soaps and quizzes , chat shows and audience participation fora , skimming the scummy surface of our effervescent present in preference to plumbing the adumbrate depths of the underlying past . |
| 26 | Perhaps the greatest amount of damage done to deaf centres in a short span of time occurred in the Baedeker Raids of May 1942 in South-West England . |
| 27 | In fact she would have had plenty of time to shade in the circles in the last two letters . |
| 28 | Well I do want to come back in fact an and reassure er you that er in fact er we are very concerned about that and we spend a great deal of time talking about the A P C's erm statement policy of intent because it was intended to be modified in the way which we thought would and we spent quite a lot of time erm discussing and am re-amending the importance . |
| 29 | This would have probably entailed working involuntary overtime , possibly long , awkward hours and , almost certainly , making a physical input , one consequence of which would have been a limit on the amount of time spent with the children and energy contributed to their amusement . |
| 30 | Obviously the decrease in the amount of time spent with the first-born will have an effect but many parents are aware of this and make a great effort to give attention to the older child . |