Example sentences of "[art] long [noun] time " in BNC.

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1 Of those calls , 16 were to road traffic accidents and of that 16 the longest response time was 18 minutes .
2 In contrast other bands within this large footprint are only apparent at the longest incubation times ( positions 69-73 ) .
3 They have , for instance , the longest lead time of all innovations .
4 The stress on the primitive chain at time t is found as where is the disengagement time , that is , the time required for chains to disengage completely from surrounding entanglements ( it is the longest relaxation time for a chain ) , c is the number of polymers in unit volume so that cN is the number of chain segments in unit volume , and is a function of the deformation .
5 The first mode p = 1 represents translation of the molecule as a whole and has the longest relaxation time τ 1 because the maximum number of co-ordinated segmental movements are involved .
6 The long cooking time will give a brown skin but you could brush the turkey with brown seasoning or tomato purée to give it more colour .
7 The long residence time generally means that any harmful bacteria that enter an aquifer do not live long enough to pose a threat to anyone using groundwater .
8 The long residence time even means that short-lived radioactive substances , such as those released by the Chernobyl accident , will be largely harmless by the time they emerge from an aquifer .
9 However , this is not unusual for this industry due to the long lead times involved and in fact only represents a recovery to 1988 levels .
10 Pointing out that the Budget changes represented the most fundamental change in oil taxation for ten years , Mr Laidlaw added : ‘ Commitments to drill wells under current licences were made on the basis of the existing fiscal regime and the widespread acknowledgement that fiscal stability is essential for the long lead times involved in offshore developments . ’
11 Because of the long lead time that would be required to bring such supplies on stream ( not only in opening the quarries but also in preparing suitable dock facilities ) it is not envisaged they will make a major contribution until the second ten years covered by MPG6 .
12 Because of the long lead time that would be required to bring such supplies on stream ( not only in opening the quarries but also in preparing suitable dock facilities ) it is not envisaged they will make a major contribution until the second ten years covered by MPG6 .
13 Some are better than others , but with the long lead time , it 's difficult to get too optimistic .
14 The problem is made more difficult by the expense of education and the long pay-off time involved .
15 The Leuchars squadron is to be replaced by Sea Kings operating from RAF Bulmer and RAF Lossiemouth , in spite of claims that the longer response times for fishermen in trouble in the Forth and climbers in peril north of the line of the Tay could mean lives being lost .
16 The longer planning time means there is a greater chance the environment will change , which subsequently forces companies to revise the plan .
17 Between each excitation change the processor executes a WAIT instruction , in which the delay value is counted down to zero ; high delay values produce a long delay time and therefore a low stepping rate .
18 A user request for a system may lead to standard data processing work — procedural language solutions , high volumes of data to be processed , critical response times … and a long development time .
19 The explanation has to be that the company shot itself in the foot by announcing the Sparcsystem 10 machines with such a long lead time , many would-be customers are holding back and waiting for them , and that things will not really start to pick up until those start shipping around September time — which suggests that dullness will continue for the current quarter .
20 Such a high ratio of prevalence to incidence suggests either a long lead time , which is not typical of the invasive cancers that are the intended target of the screening programme , or a large element of overdiagnosis of slowly progressive disease , or both .
21 There is a rich variety of unc periodic ( harmonic and higher harmonic ) and subharmonic solutions that map out periodic attractors : a few periodic attractors are illustrated in Fig. 2.20 , where the system is rewritten as ( 2.8 ) unc and the solutions ( after a long integration time , so all transients have decayed ) are plotted in the xy plane .
22 Since the catalytic cleavage of DNA by bleomycin occurs by a free radical mechanism it may not require a long residence time on its binding site .
23 Whilst this representation provides a very compact method of holding and handling a wide range of the common geometric forms found in engineering , it can result in a long processing time when real model edges have to be determined in complex models .
24 The government 's manifesto commitment was to increase benefit in line with prices but this does not guarantee its future after the next election , and presumably any proposals on child benefit would have a long lead-in time .
25 For a longer operating time it could be increased in value .
26 Model biles prepared with phosphatidylserine had a longer nucleation time ( 20 days ) than those prepared with phosphatidylethanolamine or phosphatidylcholine having the same fatty acid composition .
27 The homoeopathic doctor needs to obtain a large amount of information from the patient which requires a longer consultation time .
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