Example sentences of "and the time " in BNC.

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1 The last three months particularly are charged with electricity — and you are suddenly involved both in the throes of final productions and the ‘ business ’ of acting ; it all comes together in a thrilling rush , and the time goes quickly .
2 Depending on its strength and the time required for it to reach maturity , a beer must stand for 12 to 48 hours before it can be drunk .
3 Telephone Management Systems customer care director Anne Nunn also speaks for many suppliers when she talks about the imbalance between the knowledge required of hotel staff and the time devoted to training them .
4 This project almost died at that point , as I should not imagine that my skills were good enough to meet the precision requirements and the time factor seemed unacceptable .
5 As the weeks passed and the time to leave drew nearer , the family became worried about Scottie 's future .
6 The tolls , which varied with the level of congestion and the time of day , were displayed on road-side signs .
7 Recruiting outsiders is a dead duck for the moment ; another five years of failure and the time may yet come .
8 The left-hand pages bore a coloured photograph of some English beauty spot with an appropriate verse , both for the picture and the time of year , while the right-hand pages were each divided into seven sections .
9 Countries to the east of us are in time zones with local time that is ahead of GMT , whereas local time and the time zones to the west are delayed with respect to ours .
10 If Diana has to walk through a ward with twenty beds in it , she will stop and talk to the occupant of each and every one , and the time keepers just have to get ulcers .
11 A favourable decision would have almost certainly provoked parliamentary uproar given Sir Jeffrey 's position and the time lag between the formation of the joint service and the tunnel 's opening .
12 Progressive rock was over-dressed , the music of a leisured rock aristocracy , who possessed the money to lavishly construct a LUXURIOUS palace of sound , and the time to squander in excessively fastidious attention to detail .
13 They include bonds of Dr Pepper , a soft-drinks maker , Duracell Holdings , which makes batteries , and the Time Warner entertainment group .
14 Thanks to an over rate of 11.2 and the time lost to the weather being made up at the end , that fourth day became the longest in Test history , not finishing until 7.40 .
15 ‘ It 's all anyone wants , and the time to have thought of it was when you were rich . ’
16 The intensity of the TL produced by the deep traps is roughly proportional to three factors : the amount of radiation received per year ; the TL sensitivity of the sample ( i.e. the amount of TL produced per unit of radiation dose ) ; and the time , in years , that has elapsed since the sample was last heated .
17 Thus Stonehenge was presumed to postdate the tholoi of Mycenae , and the time taken for agriculture to spread to Britain was thought to be so great that the inception of the Neolithic was placed at about 2500 BC .
18 The requirement for abstinence after menstruation and the time for resuming relations correspond precisely to the natural tides of a woman 's sexual desire .
19 On the other hand , you do n't produce something like this in a week and the time taken would deter all but the most committed workshop man .
20 And the time is long past when the question of who deserves what was taken out of the hands of politicians and time-serving bureaucrats and given to a genuinely independent and truly meritorious body which might set about trying to put honour back into the honours system .
21 At one team meeting Billy asked me if all the travelling , and the time and money it took , were really necessary .
22 But certain files relating to the place and the time are listed as closed .
23 One of the most productive nurseries in the world , the Yorkshire League , has become almost barren and the time has come to pluck from another , rich in blossoms — Shivaji Park , Bombay , where you can stand on the roof-top of the small pavilion and watch 15 games going on at the same time .
24 However , he did allow Richard all the books and the time he wanted to teach himself .
25 The activities involved in the referral or investigation ( telephone calls , home visits , office interviews , meetings with other professionals , medical examinations , legal action ) and the time spent on these activities .
26 Second , the information requirements are considerable and the time taken assembling data may work against the efficiency that the organisation is trying to achieve .
27 The carrier is liable for the total of partial loss of the goods and for damage thereto from the time of taking over the goods and the time of delivery .
28 All take marketing seriously and the time has come for education to be added to the list .
29 Then we 'd again pace 100 yards , counting the paces and the time it took , so that we could do dead reckoning on our march in .
30 the distances covered by staff and the time occupied in obtaining necessary instruments and drugs should be kept to a minimum .
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