Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty-six hours from the relevant time would expire in the early hours of the morning ; then access to a solicitor would have to be permitted . |
| 2 | I will only refer to 2 projects in the short time available . |
| 3 | Whilst I have said 2 years as the expected time to be collecting Community Charge I think this should be qualified with 2 years plus , with income being received for some considerable time thereafter especially through Sheriff Officers . |
| 4 | other than in that respect it would erm it would reduce representation to mem members I would say by about forty percent at the present time before structures etcetera etcetera were sorted out . |
| 5 | Harris was duly executed , being pronounced dead at 6.21 a.m. local time , six hours after the scheduled time of the execution . |
| 6 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 7 | The proposed courses for the next term confirm that the college will be only using fifty percent of the available time and space for eight months of the year . |
| 8 | Usually about two to three weeks before the actual time and date . |
| 9 | Usually , there is an optimum time in which to complete the course — every three seconds over the optimum time incurs one time penalty . |
| 10 | In an attempt to avoid the confusion and last-minute delays which had surrounded the execution of Robert Alton Harris in April [ see p. 38857 ] , however , the Court did not announce its decision until 10.59 p.m. , one minute before the scheduled time of Coleman 's death . |
| 11 | After the team had gone off , I decided to visit a needy church member first and only had time to knock on one door before the agreed time to report back . |
| 12 | Hartlepool schoolgirl Sarah Gascoigne , who missed the county championships when she was on a family holiday in America , was five seconds outside the qualifying time in the junior girls ' 800 metres with a time of 2:25.0 but she cleared 1.50 metres as a guest in the high jump , four centimetres inside the English Schools qualifying height . |
| 13 | On 1 June 1878 the nineteen-year-old George wrote down his thoughts on how some ten yards a lap ( 5.7 seconds of the total time ) could be knocked off the then world standard . |
| 14 | Inside , prize tokens swirl in currents of air and each person tries to touch and keep one token within the given time . |
| 15 | ‘ The average train may leave 10 minutes late , but it has been proved that the average car journey sets off at least 40 minutes after the announced time . ’ |
| 16 | His playing partner , someone called Arnold Palmer , arrived only two minutes before the appointed time with a a veteran 's aplomb . |
| 17 | Chartered trains were due to leave Prague yesterday evening , but had failed to appear more than two hours after the appointed time . |
| 18 | It was 0134 hours , just four minutes behind the planned time of impact . |
| 19 | These trains cut twenty hours and thirty minutes off the running time of the 2299-mile journey between Chicago and Los Angeles when they came into service in 1954 . |
| 20 | Developments included the realistic estimation of 11 million years as the likely time required for the production of an erosion surface and Linton ( 1957 ) had shown that the time scale used by some as a frame of reference for landscape evolution was too long . |
| 21 | I wish to make only one or two points in the short time available to me . |
| 22 | With the help of Keith Lascelles and Howard Imber , I closed the first hour of the show within thirty seconds of the allocated time . |