Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also been a tenet of good security that prisoners should spend the maximum time outside their cells being kept busy working . |
| 2 | Most of these solutions would take a long time to implement . |
| 3 | Fan assisted cabinets have a very rapid recovery following an air change , whereas plate evaporator designs can take a long time to return to the correct storage temperature . |
| 4 | COMEDY-thrillers could have a hard time without small black books that disappear containing the clue to mysterious fortunes . |
| 5 | Grouped update areas will take an overall time related to individual record processing time , buffer arrangement , update density , i.e. hit rate , and device rotation time . |
| 6 | Aerospace manufacturers and racing car constructors can afford the necessary time and trouble ; the car majors can not . |
| 7 | While it is true that the speculation is an essential part of science , and true that new ideas may have a hard time gaining acceptance , it does not follow that untested science belongs in court . |
| 8 | Those days must seem a long time ago . |
| 9 | The last recommendation was seized upon by critics who calculate that storing the most frequently-used books high up in the four towers will create a considerable time delay in transporting them down to the reading areas . |
| 10 | The erm difference in cer some things can seem a long time ago and some are relatively recent . |
| 11 | A church service followed by an afternoon and evening of sports , feasting and the entertaining of friends and relations would provide an enjoyable time for all ages . |
| 12 | ‘ The scars will take a long time to heal . ’ |
| 13 | PCR methods ( 6-9 ) obviating the processing of miniprep cultures would offer a great time saving but as yet , reliable large scale methods are not available . |
| 14 | Good stakes can last a long time , but it does help if they are cut some months before they are used , and well seasoned . |
| 15 | The keyboard controls can take a little time to get used to — here 's a list of the main commands : |
| 16 | Now there 's two important things , first thing is your notes will take a long time to get up there maybe up to three months . |
| 17 | Well-designed signs are expensive , but this expense is a good investment in that the signs will last a long time and help overcome the physical barriers of the library . |
| 18 | Software or equipment failures , or processing errors , which do occur in normal working hours will reduce the available time by no more than 17 hours in any continuous three month period . |
| 19 | Current affairs programmes will have a tougher time : if Thames wins back its franchise , it will probably continue to make This Week . |
| 20 | But the message that bad behaviour no longer brings rewards will take a long time to get through because of its history of being occasionally ( i.e. intermittently ) reinforced . |
| 21 | Today , several men would spend a considerable time erecting steel scaffolding before such a job would be attempted . |
| 22 | If you are not , the sheets will take a long time to reassemble if they are accidentally dropped . |
| 23 | Still , even session men can hit the big time . |
| 24 | Depending on the software , further overflow records may take no additional time — if it is not necessary to follow all chains — or the average time per overflow record may be nR/2 , where there are n overflow records per track and every overflow chain has to be followed during a record search . |
| 25 | 3 ) Sex : Amateur sexologists will have a good time too . |
| 26 | The others will take a long time to recover . |