Example sentences of "[n mass] of [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This wooden aeroplane was one of the most successful aircraft of all time , and 7,781 of them were built . |
| 2 | Charles Lindberg 's Ryan NYP Spirit of St Louis is placed in the history books as one of the great aircraft of all time , and quite rightly so . |
| 3 | Lavishly illustrated , especially in the restoration chapters , this book is a worthy tribute to one of the classic transport aircraft of all time . |
| 4 | just pinch her hand , give her a firm handshake because you 've got about ninety seconds in which to make your first impression and of the ninety seconds about ninety five percent of that time is made through visual images and that can be your dress sense , the way you carry yourself , present yourself , erm body language , do n't invade his personal space , only I think about erm I think about twelve , twelve seconds off of ninety seconds , or there thereabouts is spent on what you say . |
| 5 | The others you might not have argued but , you know , you might say my experience is that it , I could do it in eighty percent of that time . |
| 6 | Well , in fact , eighty percent of full time carers give up work |
| 7 | When that work is taken away , the dog becomes a luxury and one which the simple people of that time could not afford . |
| 8 | The Kurds see themselves as the forgotten people of modern times , although few have forgotten the name of the best-known Kurd of all — Salahuddin or Saladin . |
| 9 | Those who recognize the imbalances in the Byrd discography can only applaud their continued advocacy of these profound and arresting works some of Byrd 's best music , and therefore among the finest English works of all time . |
| 10 | There is nothing superficial in comparing works of different times and cultures , so long as one is not making glib suggestions of direct linkages between them . |
| 11 | This attractive mixture is found in a good many works of this time , particularly reliefs . |
| 12 | Thirty of the 38 patients ( 78.9% ) who had 24 hour oesophageal pH monitoring showed significant acid reflux ( defined as % of total time pH less than 4>4.9% ) . |
| 13 | There was a very significant reduction in the median % of total time the Ph <4 ( 10.7 v 0.8 ; p<0.001 ) . |
| 14 | For each cell , the equations are solved simultaneously in a series of discrete time steps . |
| 15 | IF YOU want to watch television around midnight on the Sabbath , and if you happen to be in a region where nothing less important has taken precedence , you can follow one of the most excellent science series of recent times . |
| 16 | A series of Capital Times articles , from January to October 1981 , paints a picture of flamboyant misconduct . |