Example sentences of "[prep] time zones " in BNC.

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1 The severity of jet-lag , however , is dependent upon the number of time zones crossed rather than the length of flight .
2 Table 11.1 gives a general guide to the number of time zones between the United Kingdom and other countries .
3 Sloane Square , one of Time Zones 's three shorts , shot on Super 8 , and presumably chez Jarman , is no more than an album of his chums .
4 This paper , regarded by students of horology as a classic of its kind , suggested that the United States be divided along longitude lines into a number of time zones , each one precisely one hour behind its eastern neighbour .
5 And Professor Dowd 's reach swiftly became global : fourteen years after the publication of his monograph and a year after America adopted his system , so the International Meridian Conference in Washington agreed as well : the entire world , not just the American portion of it , should be divided into time zones with Greenwich as the prime meridian .
6 Countries to the east of us are in time zones with local time that is ahead of GMT , whereas local time and the time zones to the west are delayed with respect to ours .
7 We sometimes disturb this process by moving quickly across time zones on trans-continental flights .
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