Example sentences of "[adj] periods of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Studying the body clock for extended periods of time |
| 2 | It is well nigh impossible to compare the rate of crime over extended periods of time ( as Reading 10 , Chapter 5 , taken from Pearson 's study , indicates ) . |
| 3 | Pearson 's study of the history of street crime in Britain clearly illustrates the problem of using criminal statistics as a means for comparing the rate of crime over extended periods of time . |
| 4 | The intention is that over extended periods of time equivalent machines receive an equivalent amount of resource . |
| 5 | There are occasional reports in the medical journals of people not sleeping for extended periods of time when suffering from illnesses interfering with brain function . |
| 6 | The company applies its techniques through workshops or residencies over extended periods of time in hospitals , community centres of special schools . |
| 7 | The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups . |
| 8 | The responsibility can be defined differently at different periods of time . |
| 9 | Methodological objections could be made to comparing the two groups because of the different periods of time monitored , that is , for prisoners the period of time refers to after the sentence has been served whereas for probationers it is after the sentence has been imposed . |
| 10 | The Maya pictured the divisions of time as burdens carried by a hierarchy of divine bearers who personified the respective numbers by which the different periods of time — days , months , years , etc. — were distinguished . |
| 11 | Therefore , the actions which are defined as criminal will vary with different social settings — in different societies and different periods of time . |
| 12 | This rather defeats its theoretical purpose of putting different types of loan over different periods of time on to an identical basis for comparison . |
| 13 | Perhaps , I can then proceed to manipulate these numbers , and use the findings to put forward more precise proposals as to the level of budget , or the way in which the budget should be deployed — in different media , over different periods of time , etc . |
| 14 | Alcohol and other drugs have direct sedative and stimulant effects on the brain , both acting at the same time but over different periods of time . |
| 15 | Erm , I work in a project at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow , and one of the things , there 's young who experiment with drugs whether we like it or not , and I think it depends what drug i is available at that time , so we could sit here and go through the different periods of time . |
| 16 | yes after different periods of time there not all |
| 17 | The examples that have been quoted above could be multiplied by case-studies from all over England and from widely-separated periods of time . |
| 18 | 5 million ) indicates that a far higher proportion of children spend part of their childhood in a lone-parent family than such a figure indicates , and that some children may spend repeated periods of time in a lone parent family , or in a newly constituted family . |
| 19 | The manager produces a whole hospital work-level profile for specific periods of time for a 7-day period . |
| 20 | These animals possess the remarkable ability to withstand intense heat and drought for prolonged periods of time . |
| 21 | Prolonged periods of time in one position can impair circulation and nerve supply , predisposing to pressure sore development . |
| 22 | Major areas of application of consumer multimedia include music , games , home education and self-improvement , popular reference , ‘ how to ’ applications such as DIY , car maintenance etc , and child-minding software designed to keep children quiet and entertained while adults get on with their own lives for short but blissful periods of time . |
| 23 | Such vast periods of time baffle the imagination , but we can form some idea of the relative duration of the major phases of the history of life if we compare the entire span , from these first beginnings until today , with one year . |
| 24 | Extended over vast periods of time , the same process could account for the production of all the various species of animals and plants . |
| 25 | This inhibits her sexual cycles for varying periods of time depending on the species it 's about two years . |
| 26 | The number of consonants in a four-consonant sequence recalled after varying periods of time , using a within subjects design . |
| 27 | Secured and unsecured personal loans — loans are provided for fixed periods of time , often at fixed rates of interest and equal instalment payments . |
| 28 | Staverman and co-workers ( 1956 ) paid particular attention to approximations to the solution of the integral equations used in the exact theory , since , experimentally , observations can only be made over limited periods of time ( in creep for example ) or limited frequency ranges ( in dynamic methods ) whereas the exact theory of linear viscoelasticity requires the use of infinite integrals . |
| 29 | Most of the motility studies on irritable bowel syndrome patients have been conducted for brief periods of time in the very distal portions of the viscus . |
| 30 | ‘ Long periods of racial oppression ’ , he writes , ‘ can result in a system of inequality that may persist for indefinite periods of time even after racial barriers are removed ’ ( p. 146 ) . |