Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humans are not the only animals to display the habit known as pair-bonding — the practice whereby parents stay together throughout the time that their offspring require to attain adulthood . |
| 2 | Since a van service , operating at fixed times , transports call-slips to the Annexe in batches , and brings the items requested back to the Main Building in batches , the time taken for straightforward deliveries of outhoused publications depends entirely on the time at which the request is submitted . |
| 3 | Should they wish to complete the programme students should make arrangements to do so within the time limits specified . |
| 4 | The enemy artillery had opened up , lobbing heated roundshot on to the ice , smashing it into a multitude of floes , upon which men perched perilously for a time before toppling off into the lake . |
| 5 | Seven years after Mrs Thatcher 's warning to the unions and nearly seven years of government under her direction during which time the trade unions ' privileges have been reduced , the growth of wages continues strongly at a time of very high unemployment . |
| 6 | I had once found two names scratched on one of the window-panes , ‘ perhaps two soldiers billeted here for a time at the beginning of the 1914 War … ’ ( or perhaps soldiers in hiding at the time of the Reformation ? ) |
| 7 | ( 2.9 ) and ( 2.10 ) , we see that after the initial jump to half rated current at switch-on , the winding currents change exponentially with a time constant of 2L/R = 2 ms . |
| 8 | I think that the hon. Gentleman will know what I mean when I say that in the context of coming towards the end of a particular available time , whether it is the time for talks or the time for a general election , there is reluctance among certain parties — and I make this remark generally — to turn their cards face upwards if there is any danger that other people will not have turned their cards face upwards by the time the whistle blows . |