Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the sample had consulted their general practitioners a mean of 7.0 times ( range 4–15 ) . |
| 2 | The fifth study carried out in 1958 , raised problems about the position of women within the unions , which proved difficult to handle within the sociological thinking of that time . |
| 3 | The Doctor was preoccupied , thinking of old times . |
| 4 | The service has been the victim of organisational reforms in 1974 and 1982 , which reflected the conventional wisdom in the administrative thinking of those times . |
| 5 | That this ‘ slippage ’ is so slight is due to the fact that the other Enterprise staff have worked a great deal of extra time and taken on extra responsibilities and I take this opportunity of thanking them for their hard work and support during this period . |
| 6 | Martin Randall believes in allowing his clients off the leash for a good deal of unorganised time , which enabled me to enjoy my favourite occupation : finding my own way around a new city . |
| 7 | Whilst the College was in recess we had a great deal of spare time . |
| 8 | Now in this respect , of course , twenty-five years is rather a short time in the life of a university , and a good deal of this time has been spent in building up a research base , and now , as you mentioned in your erm remarks a few moments ago , Andrew , we have an enviable research record in a very wide range of disciplines . |
| 9 | Privatization , like nationalization , imposes a stiff workload and absorbs a great deal of parliamentary time . |
| 10 | The practical problem of choosing a course of action is compounded by the difficulty of predicting the consequences of a particular pollution without spending a great deal of precious time on the problem : |
| 11 | Our strong regional and branch structure is a tremendous asset and I pay tribute to the many members centrally and regionally who give a great deal of voluntary time to the profession and their Institute . |
| 12 | Richard Feynman , said to be the greatest theoretical physicist of modern times , stated that no-one understands quantum mechanics . |
| 13 | Lizzie was the daughter of a very famous mother , the late Jeannie Robertson , who after her ‘ discovery ’ in 1953 was acclaimed internationally as the outstanding ballad-singer of modern times . |
| 14 | A vast bulk of political time was taken up with the importunacy of subjects : petitions for an office or a wardship or a lease of Crown land ; begging letters for pensions ; suits for a pardon ; requests for the Crown 's help in a law-case . |
| 15 | That light travels at the speed of five times around the earth in the time it takes to say rice pudding is indeed an amazing matter . |
| 16 | With all the technological genius that can be raised in the USA to produce a B-1 supersonic bomber , they had to settle for a cruising speed of 1.25 times the speed of sound while the routine Concorde bus service across the Atlantic ticks over steadily at fully twice the speed of sound — and anyone who can afford to buy a ticket can experience it . |
| 17 | RED RUM is certainly Aintree 's best-known name , equine or human , and arguably the most popular horse of all time . |
| 18 | At just 46 he is the third youngest president of all time and five years younger than the voice of rebellious youth , Bob Dylan . |
| 19 | The most fêted boxer of all time , Muhammad Ali , was adored because of the skill he brought to the ring . |
| 20 | Muhammad Ali Memories ( Rizzoli International Publications Pounds 17.95 ) is a celebration in pictures of the career of the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time . |
| 21 | For example , a child might be told that certain behaviours will result in the loss of free time ; if the child misbehaves , the penalty creates a contingent relationship in which the child has less time to play . |
| 22 | The failure to complete homework for example , results in the loss of television-viewing time . |
| 23 | The second item of research was that undertaken by Morrison and MacIntyre ( 1969 , also quoted in Georgiades and Phillimore , 1975 ) who had found that ‘ changes in sensitivity towards pupil/ teacher relationships developed during initial training were reversed as a result of full time teaching within a relatively short time ’ . |
| 24 | 6 IF super Mario Bros 3 had been a film it would have been the biggest earning movie of all time . |
| 25 | The film sticks to the same ‘ kid beats dumb robbers ’ formula which made the original Home Alone the third-highest grossing movie of all time and top comedy with takings of over £330 million worldwide . |
| 26 | A couple of years ago I witnessed probably the most heavy groundbaiting programme of all time . |
| 27 | The Youth Training Programme offers an integrated two year programme of full time training and training with employment to all 16 and 17 year olds in Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | It 's just that I have such happy pictures in my mind of those times that pipes will always have nice associations for me . |
| 29 | St Augustine did not explain how the mind could be an accurate chronometer for the timing of external events , but as the pioneer of the study of psychological time he stands in the front rank of those who have contributed to the understanding of our sense of time . |
| 30 | Substitute Ropati 's try , after neat work by Bishop , came on the stroke of full time as Warrington relaxed in the warmth of this surprisingly easy victory . |