Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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1 | Caducius had been found by Alexander McKenn and Maurice Harknett in the 1960s and dived on for a period of time before being forgotten . |
2 | And eventually after a period of time that ins outer insulation will wear down , it will fray and it will break and it will expose the live and the neutral wires until , unfortunately sometimes , it will be a little bit too late . |
3 | Do they see erm , if , if they migrate to the city in the urban areas then they realize they wo n't get a job , and have a job straight away , er well paying job but by actually living in the area they would and taking in at a job and they get a lot of contacts and then eventually after a period of time they job . |
4 | I just certain , satisfy certain erm cattle requirements and carry on business in the sugar trade and of must done so for a period of time , I 'm looking at this , the third page in , top of the page , erm trade in office in London established without purpose erm now those the |
5 | If cimetidine ( or the hypochlorhydric condition it creates ) as in fact carcinogenic to the gastric mucosa , gastric cancer incidence should be expected to increase only after a period of time after initiation of treatment . |
6 | Park 's Martin Smith and Philip James put on 65 and a partnership of 36 between David Smith and Gareth Evans kept Park in with a chance before time ran out . |
7 | A currency which gradually adjusts up or down over a period of time , depending on the intrinsic strength of the economy which supports it , is much less likely to attract the eye of the speculator than one which is about to burst the artificial dam which has been built around it . |
8 | There is even a physical basis to the collectivity of women : it has been shown that women living together over a length of time frequently fall into a synchronicity of menstrual cycles . |
9 | It is not surprising that two people , who have worked closely together over a period of time , come up with a similar approach to a problem . |
10 | The Resident Magistrate said he was tempted to put O'Donnell ‘ away for a period of time to reflect on what you have done ’ but , he said , sentence would be deferred until he had seen probation reports . |
11 | Now , that obviously means , colleagues that we 're , we 're going over for a period of time , but we 're er slightly behind this afternoon , so certainly need to be trying to pull some work back . |
12 | Here , among ‘ Prayer wheels , worship of the dead , denial of this world , affirmation of rites with forgotten meanings ’ , some of the stuff of Eliot 's earlier poetry and his anthropological researches , there comes a visionary instant of incarnation forming a link between God and man and , in Eliot 's own poetry , between Ash-Wednesday and Four Quartets : ‘ A moment not out of time , but in time , in what we call history ; transecting , bisecting the world of time , a moment in time but not like a moment of time . ’ |
13 | It 's not like a length of time , it 's just different . |
14 | It is clear that insubstantial changes will not give rise to a new copyright ( or right to prevent unfair extraction ) but what is the position when a database has changed considerably from its original form but this has happened incrementally over a period of time ? |
15 | It tends to happen gradually over a period of time . |
16 | Always exercise gently to begin with , building up gradually over a period of time and remembering that there is never any need to strain yourself . |
17 | Instead of retreating instead of going underground instead of accepting that the situation had become extremely difficult and it was necessary to try and rebuild their organization and their influence gradually over a period of time , they committed their shattered forces to further battles and more or less completed er their destruction . |
18 | The efficiency of these ingredients wears off over a period of time , and swimming , towel- drying and perspiration can speed up this process . |
19 | You 've got ta put an offer in and pay it so much a month have n't you or something and , and , and get it paid off over a period of time ? |
20 | From mathematics to sociology ( as we saw in Chapter4 ) , offerings are judged partly in virtue of such features as comprehensiveness , elegance , simplicity , neutrality , social impact or wit , the criteria varying not only across disciplines but also within a discipline over time . |
21 | All the small modifications should add up over a period of time to make major achievements . |
22 | Another proof is taken and so the print is built up over a period of time . |
23 | ‘ It would be useful , ’ he said , ‘ if practitioners were made aware of the information that is required from them so they can build it up over a period of time . ’ |
24 | For example , the ship has a power meter which drops as you get hit , but builds back up over a period of time , you do n't just simply die when hit . |
25 | In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example . |
26 | Finally , hypnosis is usually carried out some time after the police have done their normal questioning , but memory of an event can often improve spontaneously after an interval of time has passed ; this phenomenon is known as the ‘ reminiscence effect . ’ |
27 | Erm the managing director in front of Mr erm said to me , It wo n't affect your wages but what we will ask is that you give the company car back until a period of time that your wife passes a test in which case it can be given to your wife as indeed managerial status Mr . |
28 | Joyce Anderson , of Thornton Hough , said : ‘ We are not really in a race against time , the winners will be the party who come back with the fewest miles on their clock . |
29 | This will be cut back over a period of time . |
30 | You have learned to look hard and analyse a complex situation , devise a detailed strategy for solving it , and then carefully carry it out over a period of time , revising your plan where necessary to cope with unforeseen difficulties . |