Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] mean time " in BNC.

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1 Students of local history may very occasionally need to take into account the difference between Greenwich Mean Time and Summer Time , but those who are researching the histories of maritime ports from which merchant or royal naval vessels sailed will almost certainly have to pay regard to the system of reckoning found in ships ' log-books , particularly between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries .
2 It is surprising in a way that we remember these things , for those of us living off Greenwich Mean Time witnessed them at hours well past our normal bedtime .
3 I sway , and hiccough like Greenwich Mean Time
4 References to the hour of the day are to Greenwich Mean Time ( Interpretation Act 1978 , s9 ) , except during summer time , when they are references to British Summer Time ( Summer Time Act 1972 , s3 ) .
5 Since planes tend to fly by Greenwich Mean Time , it is convenient to say it took place on the evening of the Friday .
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