Example sentences of "[prep] [art] given time [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up .
2 The body of a young child works at the maximum rate , enabling the child to process far more information in a given time than an adult could .
3 They are , no doubt , conditioned by the environment in which they live , they act in a given time and place .
4 Without any recourse to molecular interpretation Boltzmann proposed that " the forces which act on the surface of an elementary parallelepiped at the given time but also on the previous extensions , with the promise that the longer the time since they took place the smaller their effect . "
5 Many users can be active at a given time but it is an assumption at present that each user holds a single current record position at any given time .
6 Thus he attacks what people at a given time and place hold in highest esteem , and people 's fears of witchcraft correspondingly reveal their deep-seated cultural preoccupations .
7 Quinn 's fundamental point is simply that it is foolish to try to produce a total group-wide analysis at a given time and then to go ahead rapidly implementing that , ignoring the changing external and internal environments .
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