Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time during " in BNC.

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1 This left plenty of free time during the day which he spent with his father 's horses ; he gradually became an expert at training and managing them .
2 Governments operate in the world of real time during which many elements can change , as against the economist 's world of rational time and ceteris paribus .
3 The six steam locomotives helping to run the train services between Swanage and Harman 's Cross during the special weekend cover over half a century of British steam locomotive development — from Victorian times during the time of Gladstone and Disraeli through to the ‘ new dawn ’ of the 1960s and the era of the present Queen and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan .
4 Individuals were also asked to assess the severity of a task at different times during the 24 hours .
5 Now , Richard Fairbanks of New York 's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory has uncovered a detailed record which shows how fast global sea level rose at different times during the transformation from the glacial to the post-glacial world .
6 In the larger clinics the two may run concurrently , in the smaller they may be held at different times during the week .
7 The most important of these was the ability to measure the temperature and density of a plasma at different times during a discharge .
8 A variety of news items were selected at different times during the three years of the survey .
9 Yet when men were asked to smell swabs taken from a woman 's vagina at different times during the menstrual cycle , they found the smells least attractive at the time of ovulation .
10 Greeks , Romans , Byzantines , Bulgars , Turks , Albanians and Vlahs all at different times during the medieval period made their cultural , political and ethnic contributions to the Macedonian melting pot .
11 Because you 're not , because you 're inside a lot , you do n't have to go out every day , you do n't , you do n't have anything very specific to do at different times during the day .
12 I , I 'm going to have to have more than one meeting and let people , say you 've got to come to one or the other and have them at different times during the week .
13 At different times during the war , reports came in of the need for jet fuel .
14 Interestingly Caroline expressed both those needs at different times during that presentation .
15 Draw up a life table for a cohort of 5000 students showing , for each year of study , the probability of leaving and the expected remaining stay calculated on the assumption that one-tenth of the leavers in any year depart at random times during the year and the remainder go at the end of that year .
16 Appetite might be poor and food that is eaten will be difficult to digest ; bowel movements will occur at inconvenient times in the night or at unaccustomed times during the day , or the traveller might suffer constipation for a few days .
17 Some are best in the evening , some around midnight , some for two or three hours following dawn , and others at various times during the day .
18 Numbers of Hurricanes were scrambled at various times during the mid-morning .
19 And he said : ‘ I 've been in a state of panic on a snooker table at various times during the past two or three years because I knew I was n't playing well .
20 It only remains to add that although I have no doubt that Hugh correctly identified the ‘ search ’ of the Canterbury monks with the process of forgery , it is quite possible , indeed probable , that at various times during the previous fifty years individual members of the community had made experiments in altering the documents to make them more effective .
21 Unlike ITV , Channel Four would not seek to serve the vast audience but would have to satisfy parts of the audience at various times during the week .
22 A senior clerk should clear the machines and then reset them to zero at various times during the day .
23 In fact , he might have been , and very probably was , called a number of different names by different people at various times during his lifetime .
24 Undoubtedly , comparatively sudden and very widespread events , such as major marine transgressions , did occur at various times during the earth 's history .
25 By linking your drama and your topic work , you can take ten or fifteen minutes at various times during the day to work with small groups .
26 Still more complex behaviours , such as the spinning of an orb web by a spider , or the singing of the species-specific song by a bird , depend on an interaction between innate structures generating particular movements , on innate tendencies to be reinforced by particular sensory inputs , and on experience , which may have to occur at particular times during development .
27 The fixed duration , the stereotypy , of the growth phase , makes it possible for particular things to happen at particular times during embryonic development , as if governed by a strictly observed calendar .
28 They are properties of embryological processes , existing processes whose details may be changed by genes , acting in particular places and at particular times during embryonic development .
29 The CVR allows the investigator to know what the members of the flight crew were saying to each other , and to some extent what they were thinking , at relevant times during the flight .
30 At other times during the day they are brought together as a whole group to talk and discuss , to make music and to listen to stories .
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