Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some case such as subsidised motorists and those with high values of time , it is argued that road pricing will have little impact , and could even encourage additional travel . |
| 2 | AGE — ( duration of life at death , at birth of child , at delivery of fetus , at marriage or at another event ) is the estimated or calculated interval between the date of birth and the date of occurrence of the event , expressed in completed units of time . |
| 3 | So in the same village , there would be two different sorts of time . |
| 4 | Studying the body clock for extended periods of time |
| 5 | It is well nigh impossible to compare the rate of crime over extended periods of time ( as Reading 10 , Chapter 5 , taken from Pearson 's study , indicates ) . |
| 6 | Pearson 's study of the history of street crime in Britain clearly illustrates the problem of using criminal statistics as a means for comparing the rate of crime over extended periods of time . |
| 7 | The intention is that over extended periods of time equivalent machines receive an equivalent amount of resource . |
| 8 | There are occasional reports in the medical journals of people not sleeping for extended periods of time when suffering from illnesses interfering with brain function . |
| 9 | The company applies its techniques through workshops or residencies over extended periods of time in hospitals , community centres of special schools . |
| 10 | The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups . |
| 11 | The responsibility can be defined differently at different periods of time . |
| 12 | Methodological objections could be made to comparing the two groups because of the different periods of time monitored , that is , for prisoners the period of time refers to after the sentence has been served whereas for probationers it is after the sentence has been imposed . |
| 13 | The Maya pictured the divisions of time as burdens carried by a hierarchy of divine bearers who personified the respective numbers by which the different periods of time — days , months , years , etc. — were distinguished . |
| 14 | Therefore , the actions which are defined as criminal will vary with different social settings — in different societies and different periods of time . |
| 15 | This rather defeats its theoretical purpose of putting different types of loan over different periods of time on to an identical basis for comparison . |
| 16 | Perhaps , I can then proceed to manipulate these numbers , and use the findings to put forward more precise proposals as to the level of budget , or the way in which the budget should be deployed — in different media , over different periods of time , etc . |
| 17 | Alcohol and other drugs have direct sedative and stimulant effects on the brain , both acting at the same time but over different periods of time . |
| 18 | Erm , I work in a project at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow , and one of the things , there 's young who experiment with drugs whether we like it or not , and I think it depends what drug i is available at that time , so we could sit here and go through the different periods of time . |
| 19 | yes after different periods of time there not all |
| 20 | These results should be treated with a little caution , as the group surveyed is not statistically representative of the total population of practitioners throughout the country , and the costs estimated may not be based on detailed analyses of time and expenses . |
| 21 | The examples that have been quoted above could be multiplied by case-studies from all over England and from widely-separated periods of time . |
| 22 | 5 million ) indicates that a far higher proportion of children spend part of their childhood in a lone-parent family than such a figure indicates , and that some children may spend repeated periods of time in a lone parent family , or in a newly constituted family . |
| 23 | The White Paper implies that waiting lists will be reduced by increased efficiency — often meaning more operations and shorter periods of time spent in hospital by patients . |
| 24 | Towards the end of the research most of the children referred had been in care for shorter periods of time and were still in more or less meaningful contact with members of their natural families . |
| 25 | Moreover , manual workers tended to be paid benefits for shorter periods of time and they received smaller amounts than non-manual workers . |
| 26 | Other European countries use prison sentencing much less than Britain , and use it for shorter periods of time . |
| 27 | As accuracy and speed increase , the pad is shown for shorter intervals of time . |
| 28 | Generally speaking , however , different intervals of time tended to be thought of as separate discrete units . |
| 29 | Because people moving at different speeds measure different distances between events , they must also measure different intervals of time if they are to agree on the speed of light . |
| 30 | In this kind of mythological scheme This World and The Other World coexist in different orders of time ( e.g. as between waking time and dreaming time ) . |