Example sentences of "[adj] length of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule was that as a member in good standing of another church ( and I was a member of the Presbyterian Church of England ) one might do so on a temporary basis ; but that if one found oneself doing so for any extended length of time , one should ask oneself whether one should not be confirmed . |
| 2 | The intention of a Gift Aid scheme is to encourage giving without the donor being tied to a particular charity for this length of time . |
| 3 | This length of time is necessary to ensure that adaptive changes occur to the lungs and heart . |
| 4 | This length of time can be divided into two events in Scotland , originally recognised on the N.W. Scottish mainland : namely an earlier Scourian and a later Laxfordian , the boundary between the two events being dated at approximately c. 2200 m.y . |
| 5 | Perhaps this length of time is required for the long-chain polymers to stabilize after the succussion process ends . |
| 6 | Dr Einon says : ‘ What is absolutely certain is that playing the game for this length of time did not make his scores worse . ’ |
| 7 | I should say that you should think , well those of us that are healthy any way , we should be glad that our body 's have stood us this length of time and have allowed us to come here to this programme and to take part in it , I 'm certainly delighted that mine 's a , gave me three children , nothing to complain about . |
| 8 | Some countries operate five-year plans but there is nothing sacred about this length of time . |
| 9 | Interest centres on how long a subject stays in a particular state ( e.g. unemployed , married without children ) and how this length of time is affected by characteristics of the subject . |
| 10 | He said today : ‘ I just can not see him ever coming back , not after this length of time . |
| 11 | Valuations should be individually conducted and a proper length of time should be taken over each one . |
| 12 | Erm and the simple reason he says the the historical length of time taken by females we need more public facilities . |
| 13 | If a property is insufficiently furnished for full habitation , it may also have been unoccupied for some length of time . |
| 14 | In terms of the definition of er what is historic York I think again an issue we went over for some length of time at the greenbelt inquiry , I would draw your attention back to my earlier comments that York is basically a modern industrial city with a very precious historic core , that historic core er represents no more than actually five percent of the built up area , that something like eighty five percent of the city was built after eighteen hundred , the view that was expressed by the County in N Y Two , in terms of the definition of the greenbelt , the Greater York greenbelt and its purposes was not accepted by the City Council , we do not accept that all of the func elements of the York greenbelt contribute towards preserving the character of the historic city , we rely on the the fact that the two comments the Senior Inspector made at this , the the green wedges and historic core itself that establish the historic character of the city , there are many parts of the edge of York which could repli be replicated in many cities , historic or otherwise around the country and finally just coming back to the issue of scale of development erm the point I should have made earlier about the house builders figures for the city of York is that the house builders did suggest a figure of four thousand for the city , erm , I 'm not aware on what basis that was made , but clearly my evidence would quite clearly indicate that I believe that could not be accommodated , certainly on any known sites within the cit current city boundary , thank you Chair . |
| 15 | If either of these conditions is not met locally , the search algorithm will have to pursue a number of hypotheses in parallel for some length of time . |
| 16 | Until the mid-seventeenth century the essential distinction ( oversimplifying somewhat ) was that between ambassadors , either ordinary ones resident for some length of time or extraordinary ones sent for some special and limited purpose , and lesser diplomatic representatives referred to by a variety of different titles — resident , minister , agent , etc . |
| 17 | Well , people come on a day to day basis , like a working environment , right ? er Each individual will stay for a different length of time , it could be weeks , months , even years . |
| 18 | In such conditions , where drug combinations are not used for an adequate length of time , resistant strains have every chance of profiting from the destruction of their more sensitive relatives , and establishing a reservoir of intractable organisms . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , the average length of time patients spend in hospital was continually being shortened and staff dealt with more people in acute stages of mental illness . |
| 20 | The average length of time in this accommodation was 10 months . |
| 21 | The life sentence is indeterminate and although the average length of time served is just over ten years , many men stay in prison for much longer periods . |
| 22 | But at all events , it must be concluded that , assuming an entry age of 14 in most cases , the average length of time in the trade for those who married was ten or eleven years , while for those who did not it was very much longer . |
| 23 | If there 's a continual turnover of material we can actually calculate its residence time , that is the average length of time a particular molecule of substance X spends in the ocean . |
| 24 | Between 1976 and 1996 the average length of time spent in custody by male prisoners awaiting trial more than doubled , from 27 days in 1976 to 57 days by 1996 , before falling to 53 days in 1999 . |
| 25 | The situation differs around the country and the average length of time between committal and trial varies from 7.9 weeks on the Wales and Chester circuit to 17.4 weeks in London . |
| 26 | The first is the average length of time between first receipt of an application and a visit . |
| 27 | Spasm of the arteries in one or more fingers makes them go white for a varying length of time . |
| 28 | A sticker is earned for initially sitting on the lavatory for the required length of time . |
| 29 | The actual length of time one is asleep before this level is reached varies from person to person . |
| 30 | Jump on condition " never " is an instruction whose operation phase does nothing ( but presumably takes some fixed length of time to do it ) . |