Example sentences of "[noun sg] in a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many believe it would be political suicide to restrict criteria for unemployment benefit in a time of recession and high unemployment , and income support is already so low that there seems little scope for cuts there . |
| 2 | This book is about how to be a successful schoolteacher in a time of uncertainty , change , increased pressures and conflicting demands . |
| 3 | In our first example where the magnetic field varies according to eqn ( 4.87 ) the flux cut by the front part of the moving loop in a time dt is |
| 4 | BRITAIN 'S Samantha Purvis finished fifth in the consolation final of the women 's 200 metres butterfly in a time two and a half seconds slower than her British record . |
| 5 | But what of the farmers expected to carry out the work in a time of recession . |
| 6 | Internationally , there were already questions being asked about the place of sport in a time of war . |
| 7 | It was n't easy for him , having to accept that God permitted chance , any more than it was easy for him to be a clergyman in a time when clergymen seemed superfluous . |
| 8 | Marot won comfortably in 2:30:55 ; Rasmussen finished two minutes later , in 2:32:58 with Olga Appell of Mexico taking third place in a time of 2:33:18 . |
| 9 | ‘ The celebrations which took place to mark the centenary of the Diocese in 1978 took place in a time of great change . |
| 10 | The reassertion and manipulation of ‘ traditional ’ values to maintain continuity in a time of rapid change and to preserve national identity and order have frequently been undertaken by countries facing an external ( or internal ) threat . |
| 11 | The population under study is not dispersed at random across the map but consists of individuals who conceive of themselves as belonging to enduring groups which have continuity in a time scale measured in generations rather than in years . |
| 12 | It seems likely that it involved the utilisation of the X-rays emitted by the fission bomb trigger to propagate the explosion throughout the charge of thermonuclear fuel ; travelling at the speed of light they could initiate the fusion reaction in all parts of the charge in a time much less than could be achieved by shock waves ( travelling at perhaps 104m/s ) , so that a substantial degree of reaction Could occur before the material was dispersed by the explosion ( New Scientist , 2 September , 1982 , p641 ) . |
| 13 | With a motor and tyres made from plumber 's tubing , their entry had to be able to travel three metres and to carry a weight — and they proved to the judges that it could and it completed the distance in a time of 8.5 secs . |
| 14 | Williams has another fancied runner in Donals Delight , which receives 4 metres , winning on Monday night in a time of 27.96 secs . |
| 15 | Britain and the United States have expressed concern about the Earth Summit in Rio saying that industrial nations can not afford expensive environmental protection in a time of recession . |
| 16 | It was published shortly after I 'd taken part in a time and motion study during which I 'd spoken to the man with the clip-board and asked a few pertinent questions . |
| 17 | In addition to insufficient budget in a time of deep recession we now realise that TECs are facing an unmanageable task . |
| 18 | That 's hardly a sensible slogan in a time of recession , with more people being made redundant every day . |
| 19 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 20 | Duncan and Lisburn 's Neil McGrann were side by side after 50 metres , but it was the Ards swimmer who produced that little bit extra and came home a comfortable winner in a time of 1.10.13 . |
| 21 | Graham finished the 2,500m course in a time of 1min 14.10sec , beating his brother by 0.36sec . |
| 22 | I do n't like just doing research without communicating it , and I think if you 've got an interest and you can communicate it well to people , then it stimulates their enjoyment and of course in a time when there 's going to have to be more and more leisure I think that 's very important . |
| 23 | And I think if you 've got an interest and you can communicate it well to people , then it stimulates their enjoyment , and of course in a time when there 's going to have to be more and more leisure , I think that 's very important . |
| 24 | They reach the further boundaries of the solid in a time which is probably between a ten-thousandth and a hundred-thousandth of a second and are reflected back , as a kind of echo , very little attenuated or diminished in intensity . |
| 25 | Whilst it may seem that Standing Committee are abandoning Hong Kong Branch in a time of upheaval in the colony , the 1991 A.G.M. also resolved that the Branch should be provided with the opportunity of reformation in the future if formally requested to do so by the ‘ Chairperson ’ of the now disestablished ‘ Branch ’ . |
| 26 | Sometimes there is no coherent pattern in a time series and not much can be done by way of analysis other than elementary smoothing . |
| 27 | The Mallaby Committee concentrated on the problems presented for local government recruitment in a time of full employment and a declining number of eighteen-year-olds entering the labour market . |
| 28 | By John Roman Baker , comprising Crying Celibate Tears , The Ice Pick and Freedom to Party , these award-winning plays explore man 's relation to man in a time of crisis , where the war against the HIV virus is at is fiercest . |
| 29 | In these experiments chilling is necessary , given that the maximum reported speeds of phloem transport ( 35–250mmmin -1 ) are such that a chemical signal might exit the wounded cotyledon in a time comparable to that for an electrical signal . |
| 30 | The European Community is the economic anchor of the New Europe , a force for stability in a time of turbulence . |