Example sentences of "[verb] a certain time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since it takes a certain time to reach its working temperature and cool down again , it would not be able to follow the changes satisfactorily . |
| 2 | Say from one till ten cos they 're the early ones and then they get a certain time , then your numbers eleven to twenty |
| 3 | I suppose fresh meat is better but you 're only suppose to keep a certain time anyway even in the freezer . |
| 4 | And again you leave it standing a certain time and you pour off your whey and take your curd in to a muslin and er hang it up and again more whey 'll drain off cos it 's hanging up . |
| 5 | FBI spokesman Bob Ricks said : ‘ I believed from the very beginning they had a certain time agenda . |
| 6 | Although , as I mentioned before , rival groups of psycholinguists dispute the question of whether , when , and how the central systems exert a top-down influence upon the parsing processes , contemporary psycholinguistics proceeds on the assumption that levels of linguistic representation ( phoneme , morpheme , noun phrase , clause , etcetera ) are ‘ psychologically real ’ in the sense of referring to processes in the nervous system which take a certain time , which happen in a particular order , and which have determinate causal relations to similar processes . |
| 7 | Well when it comes in from the cow it 's at blood heat , and e you put it through your strainer and then you drain it and er you leave it be and it coagulates , goes consistency of yoghurt , slightly thicker than yoghurt , and after that stood a certain time you apply heat then you warm it up and you stir it , you break up the curd , and the whey gradually rises to the top and your curds settles to the bottom . |