Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typical examples of this are the inability to have biosensors that can operate effectively for any length of time in blood and the need for anticoagulants during extracorporeal procedures such as dialysis and heart-lung bypass operations . |
| 2 | The court heard that Mr Prescott , 28 , and his teammates Bernard Bryan , Colin Osbourne Wright and Jacqueline Watson used the drugs only for short periods of time for training in the run-up to a major event . |
| 3 | The court heard that Mr Prescott , 28 , and his teammates Bernard Bryan , Colin Osbourne Wright and Jaqueline Watson used the drugs only for short periods of time for training in the run-up to a major event , as is common . |
| 4 | Inevitably , men pushed together for long periods of time became edgy and , by the time the prison was freed from the grip of the snow , three men had been knifed ( one of whom had lost a kidney ) and another had been beaten severely with a pool cue . |
| 5 | It was hard to keep a juvenile troupe together for any length of time . |
| 6 | Rarely had they been left alone together for any length of time , but one thing now seemed certain . |
| 7 | Her parents lived in another part of the country and her husband was in the army and away for long periods of time . |
| 8 | b ) Will doctors , particularly surgeons , be away for predictable periods of time ? |
| 9 | The only thing that we do , and we 've always done it without Neighbourhood Watch , we always make a point of telling one another when we 're gon na be away for any period of time . |
| 10 | Young children demonstrate this : their ability to concentrate entirely on what they are doing , admittedly for short periods of time , to the exclusion of everything else , gives them a particular capacity for enjoyment . |
| 11 | The most obvious clue to its presence is its movement , so in order for its camouflage to work it must be prepared to remain very still for long periods of time , or at least to alter its position very slowly and gently . |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't pay John any bigger compliment — to be underground for that length of time . |
| 13 | He died as active as ever and , although only forty-five , had already crammed more into that space of time than most people manage in a far longer span . |
| 14 | He believed that the surface of the earth changed gradually over long periods of time , and saw that such changes would have an effect not only upon the physical environment to which living things were exposed , but upon the possibility of migration to new locations . |
| 15 | Of course , a tactless dealer irritated him even more at this sort of time . |
| 16 | And the population of London swelled , both with naive readers of Time , and with young people from across the country . |
| 17 | The responsibility can be defined differently at different periods of time . |
| 18 | One of the difficulties in the procedure for the institutions was the constraint on planning of not knowing — often for long periods of time — when or whether courses would be able to begin , or even whether they would be allowed to continue . |
| 19 | But latterly I 've been here very little ; in fact it must be at least fifteen years since I stayed here for any length of time … |
| 20 | Kersey said : ‘ They 're doing all they can but there 's really no way they can fit us in here for any length of time . |
| 21 | She had clung to the hope even for that length of time , but it had never happened . |
| 22 | Will you have enough to do down there for that length of time Christine ? |
| 23 | Even as he uses the accommodation in Annexe A to manoeuvre Serafin into discovering for himself the waiting garret , so he is using the garret to manoeuvre him into rejecting all the proposed associates in Annexe B. Once Serafin has insisted on installing himself in the garret — against all reasonable advice — he is going to discover that the kind of staff he needs will be young and agile , with a good knowledge of the backstairs of Government buildings and an ability to duck their heads and remain inclined slightly forwards for long periods of time . |
| 24 | The local authority were empowered to do the work themselves by section 10(1) of the Act of 1957 which provided that if the person in control of the house did not comply with a notice to execute work then after specified periods of time ‘ the local authority may themselves do the work required to be done by the notice … |
| 25 | Big business or some trade unions , for example , seem to have exercised power consistently over long periods of time . |
| 26 | Yet in another kind of time , the universe has no boundary . |
| 27 | The incidence rate measures how many new cases of a disease appear in a given period , whereas the prevalence rate measures how many cases in total exist , either at one point of time ( the point prevalence rate ) , or in a fixed period ( the period prevalence rate ) . |
| 28 | I was , I explained , a bit of a big girl 's blouse when it came to crumbling ledges , sheer drops , being underwater for unreasonable lengths of time and squeezing into jam jar sized spaces . |