Example sentences of "[noun] of time to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both parents were able to devote a great deal of time to their son , walking with him in the park or going for carriage drives , sometimes as far as La Malmaison , for which Napoleon III had a special affection because of its links with his mother and grandmother . |
| 2 | When Calder-Marshall and Malcolm Lowry first met it was the latter who felt flattered , but though Calder-Marshall was a generous friend , there is something poignant in Gordon Bowker 's comment in Malcolm Lowry Remembered that he has ‘ given a great deal of time to writing and speaking about him ’ . |
| 3 | Estimating the mass of all the matter in the Universe is not an easy task but , in the past few years , many scientists have devoted a great deal of time to it . |
| 4 | It was not disputed that teachers ought to be aware of the relation between educational success and failure and the language children being to school , or that some teachers need to give a good deal of time to the study of reading . |
| 5 | The birth of a baby results in some loss of intimacy in marriage , a loss of space at home , a loss of time to oneself , and a loss of physical and financial resources to manage additional demands and responsibilities . |
| 6 | One of the members [ almost certainly Francis Maginn ] intended to urge the adoption of the word " deaf " only at the Congress , but seeing that it would only cause much loss of time to no purpose he allowed his motion to drop for the present . |
| 7 | ‘ But what I want is a bit of time to myself . |
| 8 | Everyone needs a bit of time to themselves so something had to be done . |
| 9 | People with his sort of skills willing to give a bit of time to the Church are in rather short supply . ’ |
| 10 | But er it it 'd take a bit of time to er if er I explained it all to you . |
| 11 | W. G. Collingwood describes one of these men Balthazar Puchberger , ( altered in course of time to Puthparker ) whose shaggy or tousled head earned him the nickname of Towsie . |
| 12 | Multiparameter flow cytometry adds the dimension of time to static analyses , where cells have been pulse labelled in vivo and where adequate time has elapsed between labelling and biopsy . |
| 13 | Its undeviating accuracy in recording the passage of time to within one twenty-millionth of a second was a joke in a world that still went largely by the leisurely passage of the sun , where stage-coaches left at dawn , noon or sunset . |
| 14 | In our rapidly vanishing century , decades are also taken as periods of time to be commemorated . |
| 15 | Such an assertion presupposes a well-founded theory of performance , one which was able to assign periods of time to mental processes . |
| 16 | We found the issue of time to be revealing and important . |
| 17 | the two interpretations were combined in late antiquity by the Stoics , who believed that , when the heavenly bodies return at fixed intervals of time to the same relative positions as they had at the beginning of the world , everything would be restored just as it was before and the entire cycle would be renewed in every detail . |
| 18 | And Harsnet : We do not ‘ waste time ’ ; it is in the nature of time to be wasted . |
| 19 | This name was changed over a period of time to the name we know today , Rottweil . |
| 20 | So if y if the chemicals will do that over a long period of time to rubber , think what it would do to your skin . |
| 21 | Remember that velocity stands for the ratio of total spending over a period of time to the stock of money available . |
| 22 | [ … ] They will be found to vary in detail with the length of the period of time to which the investigation refers ; chiefly because both the material capital of machinery and other business plant , and the immaterial capital of business skill and ability and organization , are of slow growth and slow decay . |
| 23 | We are doing everything we can to keep that period of time to a minimum . |
| 24 | The solicitors at the end of the chain are asked to release their contract for a specified period of time to the solicitors acting for the buyer next in line . |
| 25 | But , in an uncanny moment of premonition , I am able to see through the mists of time to Judgement Day . |
| 26 | ‘ If you have an aim for your children , I think it is a waste of time to just let them dilly-dally with any old person . |
| 27 | ‘ Sounds a waste of time to me . ’ |
| 28 | It seemed a waste of time to the sergeant and a mood of depression began to cloak him again . |
| 29 | IN THE first part of this book Michael Shallis gives an interesting non-technical account of how modern physics has gone on from the common-sense notion of time to a whole series of fundamental changes . |
| 30 | Like Plotinus before him , St Augustine , in Book XI of his Confessions , submitted Aristotle 's concept of time to searching criticism . |