Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] or time " in BNC.

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1 There is also the problem of repairs and maintenance of the property , which a woman may well not be able to afford , or be able to do herself through lack of experience or time .
2 it keeps no record of wrongs or times she has told him to wipe his feet .
3 For both family farmers and part-time farmers it was essential to set dates well in advance of courses to allow sufficient time for organisation of work or time off from an off-farm job .
4 When there is a daily or seasonal pattern in demand , peak load pricing reflects the different short-run marginal costs of supplying different customers at different times of day or times of year .
5 Think back to some crisis ( a moment of shock or time of stress or failure ) .
6 It is the behaviour of E or G as a function of frequency or time , or more usually of temperature that constitutes the relaxation experiment .
7 For me , the length of copy is largely determined by the complexity of the message to be communicated — as well , of course , as by the limitations of space or time .
8 The width of the spotlight 's beam is analogous to the narrow range of electromagnetic frequencies that our eyes can see , or to the narrow range of sizes or times , close to our own size and longevity , that we can imagine .
9 but leaves us with a sense of the characters inhabiting a kind of vacuum or time warp .
10 Minor errors , such as dates or times or places will not be held against the journalist if the gist of the allegation is justified .
11 A reversal of direction , in space or time , is implicit in the duality of explosion and implosion .
12 Although it is not strictly necessary , most work is done with stimuli that vary sinusoidally in space or time .
13 If they both were of the same logical type , then we could not hope to be able to clarify the distinction between numerical and species identity and the possibility of order in space or time .
14 They were obviously in a dark room , but where in space or time was unknown .
15 The measure ( Beasley et al. , 1989 ) samples how much time the individual handicapped person spends in various categories of behaviour : for example , time spent in leisure activities ; persona or self help type of skills ; using complex equipment ; other practical tasks or domestic chores ; work or formal educational activities ; going for walks ; in seclusion or time spent doing nothing at all .
16 But on clean faxes , using typefaces such as Courier or Times Roman , its ‘ hit ’ rate was pretty good .
17 3 Accessibility : services are readily accessible and not compromised by distance or time constraints .
18 The front runners will , therefore , be zones charges by distance or time and congestion metering .
19 The right-brain functions on the other hand — the perceptive , intuitive , artistic abilities — are directed towards the inner , subjective world of transcendental reality , a world not bound by space or time but which is infinite and eternal — the spiritual realm as opposed to the material , physical realm .
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