Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The size of the epidemic in five or ten years time has not been estimated with confidence ; the epidemic will be determined by the number of people with HIV infection who develop AIDS over time . |
| 2 | In much the same way implicit or explicit models for describing the evolution of stream channels or drainage basins commonly are used to make simplifying assumptions that eliminate considerations of time , history and sometimes even progressive change . ’ |
| 3 | I have proposed four simple distributional patterns for both marine and terrestrial animals which involve changes in time . |
| 4 | I receive representations from time to time about various aspects of the home improvement grants scheme and its operation ; in the main those concern individual cases . |
| 5 | In a nutshell , it is argued that either Van Valen 's results show linearity with time , which is held to be biologically without significance , or most do not , in which case Van Valen 's ‘ law ’ breaks down . |
| 6 | There is a very large and sophisticated literature on the various measures that could be used to summarize economic inequality and make comparisons over time within one country and between countries ( see Sen 1973 and Jenkins 1991 ) . |
| 7 | These same pressures help to explain why vacations are not taken and long hours are accepted as any individual decision to take a holiday or finish work on time places a burden on the rest of the work group . |
| 8 | The New Contemporaries exhibitors continued to plot this constellation , using mixed media primarily associated with mutability , with process : substances like water or pastry , hair or wax , sand and vegetables , oil and light and cloth , which imply change over time . |
| 9 | How far is the fairly tow proportion of time spent on task in some classrooms attributable to factors unique to those classrooms — the teacher 's mode of organization , the quality and appropriateness of the learning tasks he/she devises , the personalities of the children and adults present , and so on ? |
| 10 | More than 10 years ( please state length of time ) |
| 11 | ’ Ninety-six percent of those prisoners granted home leave return on time . |
| 12 | 7.55 Remind son of time |
| 13 | They would have to honour their homework commitments and take part from time to time in residential field trips and work experience courses . |
| 14 | Most empirical economic models involve reactions which take place over time . |
| 15 | Ad hoc alliances of green organizations take place from time to time , and at the end of 1988 Greenpeace , Friends of the Earth and the World Wide Fund for Nature jointly threw down a ‘ green gauntlet ’ to the government , urging it to turn propaganda about the environment into action . |
| 16 | ( 3 ) When looking at clauses which require compliance with time limits ( eg a time limit for notifying a warranty claim after a defect is discovered in goods supplied under the contract ) the question to ask is whether the time limit has been imposed from a genuine need to protect the other party 's position , or whether it is there to make it difficult , or practically impossible , for the other party to exercise its rights under the clause . |
| 17 | ‘ The lil ol boy turned up a bit quick : he come jus in time to hev a slice of his mother 's wedding cake . ’ |
| 18 | In contrast to peoples who believe that their communities have existence through time through rules of corporation , the Piaroa do not understand ‘ community ’ and the relationships of which it is comprised as a political given that allows for continuity through time . |
| 19 | She ai n't exactly my girlfriend , but we spend loads of time together , going out and that . |
| 20 | We spend loads of time each day tapping keys . |
| 21 | I have difficulty from time to time in persuading some of my colleagues to believe that a boy not yet 21 could amass so much experience in such a short time ; he had completed two tours and looked like completing a third . |
| 22 | I spend hours of time with my engineers , briefing , de-briefing , briefing again . |
| 23 | All plans need revision from time to time and difficulties arise in reading the networks after several such changes . |
| 24 | All plans need revision from time to time and difficulties arise in reading the networks after several such changes . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't worry , we have bags of time . ’ |
| 26 | If clients have restrictions on time spent out of the office , roadshows provide an interesting solution . |
| 27 | Women who stay and work through their partner 's betrayal may , says Penny Mansfield , regain trust in time if they both grow from the experience and become different people . |