Example sentences of "[noun sg] between the time " in BNC.

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1 It is a more complex tension between the time it takes for any educational system to assimilate innovation , and the pressing need of computer manufacturers and software publishers to market new products .
2 It is interesting to note in these three references the great gap between the time of the events referred to in the history , 1935 , and the books referred to , their publication dates being 1954 , 1955 and 1962 .
3 There was a curious connection now in his mind between the time that Sergeant Barry Lawrence had knocked him silly in the pub and this new blurring of his mind .
4 In the case of works of art , however , the difference between the time lapse of thirty years and one of twenty is significant .
5 Increase the time on the outbound leg by half the difference between the time taken on the first turn from the entry heading ( 145° above ) and from the hold axis .
6 In Euclidean space-time there is no difference between the time direction and directions in space .
7 The difference between the time values for calls and puts may be taken as an indicator of market sentiment about the future progress of the share price .
8 What matters is the difference between the time taken by cumulative selection , and the time which the same computer , working flat out at the same rate , would take to reach the target phrase if it were forced to use the other procedure of single-step selection : about a million million million million million years .
9 Somewhere in the period between the time that early man first made for himself a ‘ god ’ , and the time when evidence of ‘ god ’ worship was left for later generations to find , the use of ‘ gods ’ for purposes which were largely intended to create unfair privileges , and were therefore a source of evil , gradually crept in and became a widespread part of the social scene .
10 It would certainly be necessary to make some further enquiries among the tourists , particularly about their activities during the key period between the time Kemp had arrived back in Oxford , and the pre-dinner drinks when everyone except Eddie Stratton , it appeared , was accounted for .
11 Chapter 29 of that work is remarkable for containing the first scientific investigation of the tides , involving the earliest ‘ establishment of a port ’ , that is , the mean interval between the time of high water and that of the previous transit of the meridian by the moon .
12 There was a delay between the time the ring started to glow and the point at which the glowing reached its peak , because light from the near side of the ring arrived at the earth while light from the far side was still on its way .
13 Secondly , the Soviets ' penchant for canvassing exhaustively for the best and cheapest may succeed in these objectives , but at the cost of enormous delay between the time when applications are approved and machinery actually installed .
14 A complicating factor in making the provisions relating t settled property has been the inordinate delay between the time when the intention to impose the tax was announced and the date of its becoming law .
15 Much of the higher ground was deer forest and access to it was restricted to a short summer season between the time the snows melted and the shooting season began .
16 The association between reading skill and the use of the GPC route was confirmed by a negative correlation between the time taken to pronounce a list of words and the size of the pseudo-homophone impairment : the more skilled children gave a greater indication of being slowed down by the appearance of nonwords which sounded like words .
17 There was no significant relation between the time from presentation to operation and the proportions of patients with complicated appendicitis and of unnecessary operations , although 39% of operations performed within two hours of presentation were unnecessary .
18 This drop is largely irrelevant because the long incubation period of 10 years or more between HIV-1 infection and AIDS onset results in a complex relation between the time of HIV-1 infection diagnosis and AIDS incubation period .
19 The major area of debate concerns the balance between the time spent on learning information skills versus the time spent on learning interviewing skills .
20 ‘ I suppose it is possible that squatters or other vagrants took possession of the house between the time of my uncle 's death and the sale of the property .
21 This rather skeletal account of the phenomenon of hysteresis , suggesting a connection between the time paths of the actual and the equilibrium unemployment rates , needs to be substantially fleshed out .
22 It was also clear that there was in general an imbalance between the time employed and the labour requirements of the enterprises , indicating a lack of skills and a need for extended training .
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