Example sentences of "[noun pl] [am/are] [verb] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this type of survey a sample of people is recruited to a panel and their attitudes are surveyed at different times . |
| 2 | Provided that news bulletins are shown at agreed times across the country , for example at 5.45pm and 10pm , this is no problem . |
| 3 | Predictably , the basic patterns are inherited from colonial times and often ( at some remove ) from the English Board Schools of the early 1900's ; hence the three term year , the five day week , the six or seven year cycle , the age five or six entry , the forty minute period . |
| 4 | Now we , we do know that 's a problem , the police service know it 's a problem , and the Chief Constable 's come up with these er these performance targets , where he 's try he 's promising to the public that he 's going to endeavour to make sure that all police telephone calls are answered within certain time periods . |
| 5 | For example , VCR products are growing at three times the rate of other audiovisual products ( Ohmae 1985 ) . |
| 6 | If these anomalies are detected in good time the parents can receive counselling and the subsequent management of the pregnancy can be planned , so reducing the national perinatal mortality rate . |
| 7 | It is of particular value where international companies are working in different time zones and the telephone is not always a convenient method of communication . |
| 8 | The same workers are investigated at different times of the day . |
| 9 | These differences are an indication of the unique way in which each individual is responding to the circumstances in which he finds himself and of the state of that person as a whole , that is they show how his healing powers are operating at that time . |
| 10 | If these conditions are found in good time , treatment is usually straightforward and almost always effective . |
| 11 | More rarely , such stories are told at other times to demonstrate the reverse : that policemen and women are human beings and are affected by emotionally demanding work . |
| 12 | Gottlieb and Kalay ( 1985 ) and Ball ( 1988 ) have demonstrated that the imposition of minimum price fluctuations ( the tick size ) induces leptokurtosis in the distribution of price changes , particularly when the changes are measured over short time intervals . |
| 13 | If large numbers of pre-implantation embryos are required at one time the gonadotropins PMSG ( pregnant mare 's serum gonadotropin as Gestyl from Organon or Folligon from Intervet Laboratories Limited ) and hCG ( human chorionic gonadotropin from Sigma or Intervet Laboratories Limited ) can be administered to females prior to mating in order to increase the ovulation rate . |
| 14 | Bones in pellets are protected for some time ( see discussions on this in the sections on trampling and weathering , above ) , but in wet conditions or in water the pellets disintegrate and the bones they contain are dispersed ( Korth , 1979 ) . |
| 15 | Bookings are taken at any time even up to the day of departure . |
| 16 | The equivalent life therefore takes into account the fact that the redemption payments are received at different times . |
| 17 | Effective vaccines prevent such hazards , but only if a social organization ensures that all potential mothers are vaccinated in good time . |
| 18 | Additional variation is likely to creep in when different children are tested at different times of the day and possibly in different locations . |
| 19 | If those , all of those contract temps are regarded as full time people it looks like full time people are working overtime , which is why I asked you the question yesterday erm what 's the overtime bill for quotes alone . |
| 20 | HP HOVERS OVER SEQUOIA AS RESULTS ARE RESTATED FOR SECOND TIME |
| 21 | This may lead to confusion so unless it is critical to maximise the use of an operator it is recommended that the offline runs are scheduled at different times . |
| 22 | If deposits are renewed at shorter time intervals than the loan roll-over dates ( mostly six months ) , a bank might increase its profits , as seven day deposit funds are usually cheaper than six month funds . |
| 23 | Arms races are run in evolutionary time , rather than on the timescale of individual lifetimes . |
| 24 | Shares are selling at 23 times earnings , their highest since 1926 . |