Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [noun] time " in BNC.

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1 A wider bandwidth could be achieved at the expense of a shorter delay time , but this would not give such a good reverberation effect .
2 And that 's Nick Harris talking to Ken Vasey up at the Manor ground and we hope to return to the Manor in a few moments time and see who else Nick has got to talk to us .
3 You can see in a Trivial Pursuit question in a few years time what 's the most commonly said three words ?
4 The ‘ Golfnet ’ system will link courses across Fife , enabling golfers , both local and visiting , to make a firm booking for an available starting time on any course in the system .
5 I was reading through back copies of MKM which I do quite often and started to read Help Line in the April '91 issue , when my husband ( who had been clearing out the attic ) came into the room with an old TV Times — Feb 1960 .
6 DEC also subcontracted the London-based software house Transvik Ltd which had previously developed the software for the Nordex exchange in the City of London ; it was its foundation on the pound sterling that caused the failure of the bond transaction , but contrary to local press reports , the system did not crash and an update to overcome the problem should be in place in a few weeks time .
7 That he 'd do that in the morning as a little part time job for 'em , and all he 'd do is erm , the Pool Manager , which is at Lock Gates , he know what ships come in the day before and he really know the man and then in the morning they 'd say well so and so ship has arrived but perhaps he might know it , then he 'd send , he 'd know what men to send and this , cos I , I used to get the latest information , they did n't worry him , they worried me about lates latest information and of course we knew what ships was due for the next day so we knew what allocation we wanted .
8 It is hoped that volunteers can start work on preparing the ground in a few weeks time .
9 Yes , we 've got Maidenhead to come down here , a home game in a few weeks time , so obviously that will be quite an interesting game .
10 Nor can it explain the shift from an initial RVF superiority on a visual reaction time task to a LVF superiority when a concurrent memory list of nouns is superimposed on the perceptual task ( Hellige , Cox and Litvac , 1979 ) .
11 Taken together with the finding that an initial RVF superiority on a visual reaction time task gave way to a LVF superiority when subjects were required to simultaneously hold in memory a list of nouns ( Hellige , Cox and Litvac , 1979 ) , this implies that dynamic shifts in attention are insufficient to explain all perceptual laterality effects .
12 Thus the addition to a given run time will not be significant .
13 Although a trend for an increased survival time in patients with diploid tumours was found this difference was not significant .
14 So , gentlemen , what I 'm really doing is to show you a bit of the background and the fact that it 's not all doom and gloom there is a hell of a light at the tunnel and in matter of fact , we got another lecture on the channel tunnel in a few days time !
15 She 's due to have a hip replacement operation in a few weeks time .
16 On the assumption that they would continue to fall at the same rate as in the first half of the decade , it was estimated that the population would be only one tenth of its size in a hundred years time .
17 ‘ Prime Minister ’ Courtanay Botterell is pictured being filmed at the dispatch box during a rowdy Question Time .
18 This can be illustrated by a creep test using a simple Voigt-Kelvin model with a single retardation time τ R , placed initially under a stress σ o at time t o .
19 Again a simple model with a single relaxation time is too crude , and the stress relaxation modulus is better represented by where is the distribution function of relaxation times .
20 For a chain molecule composed of a large number of segments , movement of the complete molecule depends on the co-operative movement of all the segments , and as stress-relaxation depends on the number of ways the molecule can regain its most probable conformation , each possible co-ordinated movement is treated as a mode of motion with a characteristic relaxation time .
21 They crossed the line with an average lap time of 30 minutes .
22 Let us suppose the Smith family have planned a picnic in the country in a few days time .
23 If I quote three or four quid underneath , he 'll consider it and we may get an order in a few months time when the schedule runs out .
24 Three new models of Peugeot cordless drills all include a removable power pack with a three-hour charge time .
25 ‘ The changes facing the industry with the ending of the variable premium in a few months time made buyers highly selective , ’ said auctioneer Michael Walton who managed to extract an average £1000 for ram lambs against a 1990 figure of £1209 .
26 This contact was increasingly in danger of disappearing due to the economic pressures on the company , and , by the same token , budget pressures on the school which were making it difficult to commit teacher time to a non-class contact time activity .
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