Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that time dividends were cut or passed and there were plenty of closures and redundancies , but spending on R&D and on capital investment was maintained . |
| 2 | Turning to , turning to entertainment and media investments er , it was a very tough year for the Tussaud group and starting with the er , Gulf War er , and erm , the only Tussaud business that , that does a lot of business in the first quarter is erm , Marylebone Road and you may remember that the Gulf War caused foreign tourists to stop coming to London and er , also erm , British tourists stopped coming to London and during that time attendances were actually twenty five percent down , so the recovery from there is , has been very good . |
| 3 | Behind them the dominions of Russia marched eastward through eleven time zones to the borders of China . |
| 4 | About this time recruits had to pass an examination in English and arithmetic before being given permanent employment . |
| 5 | At about this time tights were no longer worn on stage : ‘ wet white ’ was used for the Girls ' legs . |
| 6 | It would be no surprise if he too had clocks set for different time zones . |
| 7 | Second , if a traveller goes eastwards halfway round the Earth he will have passed through 12 time zones and gained 12 hours with respect to GMT ; he will meet another traveller who has travelled westward and so is 12 time zones ( 12 hours ) behind GMT . |
| 8 | During this time conditions were to be worked out for a monitoring scheme and new quota system , which was expected to allow renewed exploitation of certain stocks , notably of minke whales . |
| 9 | During this time signals from tissue from tissue with a short T2 , for example , the gut wall , can experience appreciable decay and thus appear dark . |
| 10 | During this time patients will also require information about the peri- and post-operative periods . |
| 11 | During this time couples may have to buy the necessary equipment , reorganise the house , hand in a resignation , visit the child at the foster-parents ' or arrange to take a direct placement immediately at delivery and room-in on the postnatal ward . |
| 12 | For some time threats to governments will continue to come primarily from those already close to power . |
| 13 | But for some time teachers have been aware that many pupils do not appear to benefit from private-study time nor do they acquire the associated study skills , and there is uncertainty as to what kind of study skills training should be given . |
| 14 | There is then a wonderful opportunity for those who have survived , because the field is clear and for some time newcomers are chary of entering it . |
| 15 | For some time airlines , particularly British Airways , have been bringing strong pressure to bear within the CAA 's Finance Advisory Committee ( FAC ) to reverse the present charging scheme , whereby 97.6 per cent of its AOC income comes from the Variable Charges , in favour of the majority of income being derived from the Fixed Charges element , which would then reflect the actual expenditure of effort by the CAA in respect of each company . |
| 16 | The receipts and payments method is commonly employed for shorter time periods , say up to one month . |
| 17 | After some time humans will meet animals . |
| 18 | Undergraduates were also given groups of consonants and asked to recall as many as possible in their correct position after various time delays . |
| 19 | This decay can also be seen in Fig 2 , which shows the probability of a single letter being recalled in its correct position after various time delays . |
| 20 | There is disagreement , however , whether or not they can be interpreted as lateral time equivalents of one another . |
| 21 | A typical set up costs less than £1000 and MK aims to price itself into a new market between simple time switches and expensive custom-built computer-based energy management systems . |
| 22 | Because of normal time delays , revenue continues for a while after sales cease . |
| 23 | Because of normal time delays , revenue continues for a while after sales cease . |
| 24 | The Justices of the Forest were to drive the deer from all disafforested districts into the remaining forests during the forty days after disafforestment : after the expiration of that time places put out of the forest were to be exempt from the operation of the Forest law . |
| 25 | A series of Capital Times articles , from January to October 1981 , paints a picture of flamboyant misconduct . |
| 26 | Celluloid time is malleable , even reversible ; the stability of real time meanders and comes under question the way many of our other unquestioned perceptions of solidity and certainty stumble in the confusion of deliberate sensory re-alignment " . |
| 27 | This is displayed as a set of real time gauges which show disk capacity , compression ration and fragmentation levels , so you can spot any problems with your disk early . |
| 28 | 3.1 The Potential of Real Time Applications : A Computer Man 's View |
| 29 | We have already cited the 1800 correspondent to the Courrier des spectacles on the subject of mechanical time beaters : ‘ Doubtless there is a batteur in the wings or for the chorus … |
| 30 | The number of lost time accidents occurring on site during 1992 was 14 including 6 which were reportable to the HSE . |