Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the times " in BNC.
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| 1 | The successfully transformed supermarket chain and multiple retailer Tesco — ranked 22 in The Times 1000 and employing 71 000 — similarly described headhunters as good servants but bad masters : their work should be closely defined and controlled by the client . |
| 2 | In a survey carried out at the end of October of a sample of 100 of The Times top 1000 companies , it found that 61 per cent of companies were experiencing worse bad debt problems . |
| 3 | Lynda Philamore , head of assessment and recruitment at British Airways — ranked 26 in The Times 1000 and employer of 44000 — was exceptional in this survey in expressing almost entirely negative views about the executive search industry , despite the publicity surrounding the success of headhunted chief executive Colin Marshall . |
| 4 | David Tagg at Grand Metropolitan , the drinks , hotels , brewing , retailing and food-producing giant ranking number 10 in The Times 1000 and employing nearly 150 000 , spoke cheerfully of his general liking of headhunters . |
| 5 | In 1981 they audited 708 of the Times top 1,000 ; by 1991 this had gone up to 815 . |
| 6 | In contrast to Foch always ready to adopt the conqueror 's pose , one foot before the other , Pétain so hated being photographed that the only portrait Repington could find in 1918 for The Times was one of him characteristically glaring at the camera . |
| 7 | Above right : The international time zones , reviewed in June 1962 for the Times Atlas of the World , uses a Mercator projection . |
| 8 | Sainsbury 's , ranking 17 in The Times 1000 with 82 000 employees , when considering appointing a senior departmental director , chose to use headhunters for ‘ political reasons rather than convenience or speed ’ because they could then be informed in detail about the market for candidates . |
| 9 | Adrian Gozzard , formerly Director of Human Resources of Plessey , the telecommunications and electronics giant ( number 93 in The Times 1000 and employer of over 30000 ) , who has had long and extensive experience of search , has turned time and time again to headhunting firms , despite having used a full-time , in-house recruitment manager , and working hard on internal management development . |
| 10 | Rarely , and this was one of the times , she knew she was tied to him by what seemed like a tight cord of anxiety that vibrated to his needs , never hers ; how she was afflicted by him , how he weighed her down . |
| 11 | I want this one to be one of the times when it 's not . ’ |
| 12 | Deputy editor Matthew Symonds said the only way the move could be economic was if one of The Times 's rivals was forced out of business . |
| 13 | but one of the times when we were not chatty , but talked , she said how naughty he 'd got , but I mean she 's never with him |
| 14 | Now this is one of those interesting incidents because it was one of the times when he tells the disciples off . |
| 15 | When Roy Thomson 's son decided to pull out of national papers , having spent millions on The Times in pursuit of production economies , Murdoch was the purchaser . |
| 16 | Retail giant Kingfisher — number 51 in The Times 1000 with over 56 000 employees — has been , according to Peter Samuel , Director of Organisation and Management Development , a wide and extensive user of search . |
| 17 | Confectionery , food and soft drinks manufacturer Cadbury Schweppes — ranked 60 in The Times 1000 and with nearly 27500 employees — was also prepared to give credit to headhunters . |
| 18 | Painting nearly always fifty years or even a hundred behind the times . |
| 19 | Anonymity lasted until 1967 in The Times and for nearly as long in parts of the other quality papers . |