Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're confined to barracks for the time being , Private Nobody . ’ |
| 2 | BA said it would operate 13 former Dan-Air short-haul routes from Gatwick , using Dan-Air liveried aircraft for the time being . |
| 3 | They did not , for instance , examine how a head looks at the development of fellow-staff after the time of first appointment . |
| 4 | Flying boats were larger than most aircraft of the time . |
| 5 | In HWIM the correct phoneme was included in the top two scores of the vector only 65% of the time . |
| 6 | The correct word is the highest scoring 65% of the time , and within the top five 85% of the time . |
| 7 | Overpricing ( after allowing for transaction costs ) was found only 3% of the time . |
| 8 | Tasks which require subjects to read and respond to sentences and which furnish precise data on the time course of their reading , are able to reveal much more about sentence processing . |
| 9 | At the top of the scale , business must have taken a number of leading men out of town at the time the assessment was made , including , for example , Robert Thorne , Merchant Taylor and a notable benefactor to the City ; worth more than £20,000 at the time of his death in 1532 , he must have been one of the very richest men in England . |
| 10 | The aircraft at the time were within the regulations which is reinforced by the fact that they crashed well away from the public area . |
| 11 | My latest specimen has increased from 8 cm in November 1991 , to 30cm at the time of writing ( mid-June ) . |
| 12 | For them a systematic process is more plausible and most human resource departments in firms have systematized procedures ( application forms , interview schedules , psychological tests ) to extract theme data at the time a person joins the firm . |
| 13 | The early assessment of infarct size through the collection of clinical , radiological and biochemical data at the time of admission such as in the Killip , Norris or Peel indices or by direct haemodynamic monitoring allows an accurate assessment of prognosis and implies that extensive myocardial infarction remains a persistent liability ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 14 | Damaged by its losses — which were reduced by $80m by the time the quarter ended — Comdisco had its credit rating chopped and reported a net loss for the quarter ended December 31 , 1987 , of $56m … despite a growth in revenue to $327m from $268m . |
| 15 | Fortunately , 90% of the time these problems can be cured , but there are times when , despite the cause being visible , the treatment is less evident . |
| 16 | David Gilford , for instance , hits the fairway with his tee shot at least 80% of the time , Tony Johnstone gets up and down from greenside bunkers around 90% of the time and , just as remarkable , Colin Montgomerie hits 77% of greens in regulation . |
| 17 | Thirdly the equipment and systems reliability of ‘ high-bay ’ warehouses can now achieve very high levels provided that maintenance is kept to an adequate standard ; availability of equipment for use is often in excess of 97% of the time work is available . |
| 18 | This is only specifically noticed by the adventurers 50% of the time ( add 20% to this chance if they make a prolonged search ) , since it is n't obviously unusual . |
| 19 | David Gilford , for instance , hits the fairway with his tee shot at least 80% of the time , Tony Johnstone gets up and down from greenside bunkers around 90% of the time and , just as remarkable , Colin Montgomerie hits 77% of greens in regulation . |
| 20 | Research has shown that the best weather in Europe occurs in Cannes where it is suitable for flying training over 80% of the time with little seasonal variation . |
| 21 | The data we have at the moment suggest that we should reach our targets about 80% of the time , but our aim over the years will be not only to reach the targets in a higher proportion of cases but also to make the targets more difficult . |
| 22 | For our answer we have made an arbitrary assumption that he uses his car for 80% of the time for business and that half the repairs etc. relate to that car . |
| 23 | The most important result from these experiments is that if the first ten positions of the list of allowable candidate strings are considered , the correct words are present between 97% and 100% of the time , depending on the particular writing being analysed . |
| 24 | A corollary to the restricted data approach found in much of Chomskyan linguistics is the importance placed on writing rules of grammar which are fixed and true 100% of the time . |
| 25 | Law Society research shows that business affairs work provides 28% of the profession 's fee income , but takes only 12% of the time ; while 3 in 5 practices predict that business affairs will continue to become a more important source of fees . |
| 26 | In April 1860 J. Baxendell , a leading variable star.observer of the time , recorded an unfamiliar star of about magnitude 9.7 in the same field as Arcturus . |
| 27 | Using daily data for the period from June 1987 to June 1988 ( 272 observations ) , after allowing for transactions costs of 0.5–1% , they found a substantial degree of underpricing for Nikkei Stock Average futures : 42% of the time there was an underpricing in excess of the estimated transaction costs . |
| 28 | pH >7 was used to define abnormal alkalinity in the oesophagus because in normal volunteers the pH of the oesophagus is between 4 and 7 for 96% of the time . |
| 29 | For 16–18-year-olds , half should be in full-time further education by 1979 , compared with 12% at the time of the report . |
| 30 | For instance , at Prudential Assurance , the taxable disturbance allowance of £1724 is paid in two equal instalments ; employees receive one payment of £862 at the time of their transfer and the balance one year later . |