Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | the number of virtual memory segments that are resident in real storage at the time it either finishes with the processor or exceeds the time slice allocated to it w |
| 2 | The break-even points between the two modes of processing can be seen clearly in Fig. 7.22 ; for numbers of records for which a sequential curve is above each straight line that represents the time required to process a record directly , direct processing is faster . |
| 3 | At the beginning of the New Year — or perhaps in a couple of months time at the beginning of the new financial year — there is often a need to set up a spreadsheet that shows a time series . |
| 4 | This type of fence is very quickly and easily erected in the second and subsequent years if the materials are carefully put away ; it is the initial preparation and setting up that takes the time . |
| 5 | Knowing the speed that floppy disks take to format , I allowed half a day for the job , but it was done in a couple of minutes — it 's the absolutely essential task of backing up files that takes the time . |
| 6 | Hence the frenzied self-hatred that explodes every time he spits out ‘ I 'm a creep ’ . |
| 7 | Perhaps it speaks to a part of our mind that does not know about self-control — a part that remembers the time when we were entirely in someone else 's power and they , in a certain sense , were in ours . |
| 8 | The mind is the word used for that still mysterious part of living creatures that controls the time , intensity and direction of physical and mental activity . |
| 9 | Antoine 's failure to analyse his actions in anything other than a purely technical sense is explained primarily by the tempo of his life dictated by an excessive work load that leaves no time for leisure , for reflection , for self-scrutiny : |
| 10 | Puts watch on table and records the time on a pad . ) |
| 11 | The 9 and 11 June amendment widens the scope of the categories of objects concerned and increases the time limit within which a claim for restitution can be made from thirty to fifty years , removing it altogether for objects in state or ecclesiastical ownership . |
| 12 | ( a ) which locates your project within a set of defined contexts ( geographical , historical , economic , social , political , scientific , technological or combination ) ; ( b ) which locates your project within a specific organization , where appropriate , delimiting those areas you intend to cover , those you propose to ignore — and why ; and ( c ) which locates your project within an historical continuum and explains the time scale within which you carried out your empirical research ( a chronology may be useful in an appendix ) . |
| 13 | Squeeze his sides and Mickey opens his mouth and talks the time . |
| 14 | The idea behind ‘ Teethgrinder ’ is so simple , yet so strange , that it fascinates and thrills every time it is played . |