Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] time [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Working mothers are faced with two choices : follow the male career route and spend little time with their children or sacrifice their prospects , knowing that working part time means low status and low wages . |
2 | This gives each musician time to practise so that you all arrive at the rehearsal ready to try out new , revised musical parts . |
3 | The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit . |
4 | ‘ The changes facing the industry with the ending of the variable premium in a few months time made buyers highly selective , ’ said auctioneer Michael Walton who managed to extract an average £1000 for ram lambs against a 1990 figure of £1209 . |
5 | Anne : They 'll be doing it all again in 12 months time do you think things will be different , will Mr Major still be there ? |
6 | The area of work I am about to discuss is one in which relatively little social work time has been invested . |
7 | This lead time allowed LIFFE 's contract to exploit the process generating endogenous economies of scale and become sufficiently liquid to attract substantial hedging demand in German long term interest rates . |
8 | the other option of course is not to do that and to try and gain some experience erm m maybe voluntary for some of the time so that maybe I can then spend you know in another years time get a job which is a bit more relevant and I 'll be able to earn some money . |
9 | However , Mar delayed in an attempt to raise more men , which allowed the British government time to build up concentrations of its own troops and collect reinforcements from its foreign allies . |
10 | Is this speech long enough on one camera to allow another camera time to switch lenses for a medium shot ? |
11 | Double British Summer Time added two hours of daylight and the Luftwaffe needed the cover of darkness . |
12 | DARLINGTON police have been criticised for forcing nightclubs to close an hour early on Saturday when British Summer Time began . |
13 | Yesterday The Northern Echo revealed Darlington clubs had to close an hour early on Saturday when British Summer Time started at 1am . |
14 | But may I add a special welcome to the unsung heroines and heroes who are not permanent staff , but give up their time — and in some cases their entire annual leave — to work for the Festival when the high pressure time arrives . |
15 | Mr Abalkin rejected this as too slow ; instead of giving the old system time to adjust , it would allow ‘ opposing forces time to consolidate ’ . |
16 | And these days one has so little rehearsal time to get any kind of perfection . |
17 | To sum it all up , the DataMax Sport monitors the depth and time , calculating and displaying remaining dive time based on 12 tissue compartments and a Haldanean model of your decompression status . |
18 | Based on the argument outlined above , measures of inter-hemispheric transfer time have ranged from around 3 msec . |
19 | The delay had been to give the second team time to gain position . |
20 | You know , if I said to Terry 's wife , Mrs , how much lead time do you need to set up your show ? |
21 | If I place the order today how much lead time do you want ? |
22 | Companies responsible for its prospects have gone out of business seven times , discovering that while they could make money on the big promotions , the building and park were too expensive to run on a tickover basis ( nowadays the park alone costs £650,000 a year to maintain ) , and in an earlier era of six-day working weeks , the public had not much leisure time to spend there anyway . |
23 | Simple reaction time refers to a response , such as a key press , indicating merely that the stimulus has been detected , whereas discriminative reaction time refers to a response where some kind of discrimination is called for between two stimuli presented either simultaneously or successively . |
24 | They should be ignored in normal practice and disinfection should be assumed to have taken place only at the time a chemical has been applied and after the requisite contact time has elapsed . |
25 | LEAKED memoranda from the Department of the Environment were yesterday used by Labour to protest at the alleged abuse of civil service time to cost Labour 's programme . |
26 | Since 16 July 1992 ( Royal Assent of the 1992 Finance ( No 2 ) Act ) , such enquiry time has included Customs making internal enquiries ; previously , however , the time had to be on enquiries with the trader , rather than on internal enquiries , following the High Court decision in L Rowland and Co ( Retail ) Ltd ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November 1992 , p 108 ) . |
27 | The decisions about teaching practice and the provision of second method time have changed quite radically my method course . |
28 | The Central Electoral Commission criticized television coverage of this and other Civic Forum and PAV rallies , and ordered that all other parties be given 10 minutes ' extra air time to compensate . |
29 | If this were so one would expect measures of inter-hemispheric transmission time to remain roughly constant for the same stimuli and subjects , yet this does not appear to be the case ( Bashore , 1981 ) . |
30 | The theatre-bell announced that interval time had ended . |