Example sentences of "time [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 As I said earlier this year , there will not be enough of any one crop to give self-sufficiency , but the contribution this small plot has made to the good budget has ten times repaid the outlay on seeds and materials .
2 Using some scraps of board , it is worth experimenting with exposure times to optimise the UV time period .
3 To achieve this , and also to attract the interest of would-be exponents of the approach who have not had the opportunity to undergo an extensive systems education , it has been necessary at times to over-simplify the explanations of concepts and applications , and condense them from those developed by system researchers over many decades .
4 A small hole was dug , the cigarette buried , songs sung over the grave and then the whole procession wended its w ? y round the field four times singing the funeral march from Aida , which we had been practising for a week .
5 Up to then Graham , 33 , had been mainly in control and had at times outclassed the 27-year-old Grant .
6 Just as Israel at times has thwarted United States ' regional objectives , so also the PLO has at times thwarted the policies of Jordan and Syria ; Egypt has reneged on its commitment to the Soviet Union and a defeated Syria was able to destroy the Israeli-Lebanese Withdrawal Agreement virtually overnight .
7 John , who had many times heard the distant rioting of armies of drunken , brawling navvies on a payday randy , recognized it at once .
8 Has the manager at all times respected the wishes and aspirations of the artist ?
9 It has been a special joy in recent times to see the growth in the church of a truly global mission concern , and we look to your continued support as we try to make the challenge of Mission in its fullest sense the emphasis at this year 's Assembly , and beyond .
10 Written in a terse , academic style that at times obstructs the true horror of her depictions of bloodshed and rebellion , Pearce offers an invaluable source of information , full of clearly laid out sections and chronological charts .
11 Chola reached up to the arch above the doorway add seven times made the same imprint with the pad of her thumb on to seven discs of semi-dried cow-dung .
12 The Times made the suggested link their front-page headline — Porn videos turned ‘ Fox ’ into rapist — while the Daily Mail used this theme in their editorial of the day , as part of their continuing campaign against porn videos .
13 ‘ Charles has at times given the impression that he would prefer to renounce the throne in favour of his son .
14 A keen sportsman , he has several times completed the Great North Run .
15 William was heard to exclaim as , with their foot beginning to give way , the Jacobite horse charged three times to restore the situation , forcing some of the attackers back into the river .
16 Some who at various times occupied the houses were the McCabe , Brown , White , Lamb , Mann , Wells and Carson families .
17 The different purposes of payments to influence the outcome of court decisions in Kandyan and British times illustrates the divergent approaches to these tribunals .
18 Seoul 's English-language Korea Times caught the mood .
19 A little later she indicates that I am partially returned to favour when I plan to write to The Times condemning the industrial action that was taken by the consultants : ‘ If he really produces this letter to The Times I shall begin to have some faith in him . ’
20 Pete Smith uses techniques that date back to medieval times to work the rods of metal into everything from gates to furniture .
21 Work in history will also at times involve the use of libraries and reference libraries , record offices or local studies centres .
22 On Nov. 14 , the Financial Times reported the passing of a banking act , intended to speed the privatization of Hungary 's banks , describing it as " the most significant reform of the financial sector since … 1987 " .
23 The Financial Times described the French attitude thus : ‘ independence [ of the central bank ] is a regrettable but unavoidable price to be paid to the Germans and the taboos of the Bundesbank ’ .
24 Thousands of newspaper and periodical articles are indexed in Research Index ; Index to the Financial Times covers the FT from 1981 on .
25 A leading article in The Times found the general approach tentative , but did not offer any criticism on those grounds .
26 The following day the Irish Times headlined the company 's intention to remain in Ireland , giving it more prominence than a Cabinet statement .
27 Even the sober New York Times filled the top of its front page with the crisis .
28 Even the Financial Times noted the fact that Conor Haughey , the Managing Director of one of the mining companies , Feltrim Mining , is a son of Charles Haughey .
29 Despite the fact that carp , tench and bream , in particular , have ’ grown ’ in recent times causing the old targets for which the average specimen-hunter realistically set his sights to become obsolete , the humble roach at least seems to have retained a quiet dignity making a 2-pounder still the weight most of us want to beat .
30 Transfer times cover the average period taken from leaving the airport to arriving in your resort .
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