Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers often report that they completely switch off at the beginning of the holidays , or sleep for abnormally long periods of time for several days . |
| 2 | Birds can also detect much smaller intervals of time than us . |
| 3 | Thirdly , rule-specification is a means of ‘ job enlargement ’ , a process of elaborating housework tasks so they take up endlessly increasing amounts of time . |
| 4 | in order to get a better estimate of how accurately the clock works we need to be able to study it for much longer periods of time . |
| 5 | In prolonged breeding , on the other hand , mating takes place over much longer periods of time , or indeed throughout the year . |
| 6 | To avoid excessive changes in the sample cross section , elongations are limited to a few per cent and are followed over approximately three decades of time . |
| 7 | Compare : Encouraged by the success of her early publications , Charlotte Brontë gave over increased amounts of time to writing . |
| 8 | In the first place , the adjectives with which we are concerned are certainly not all adjectives of time . |
| 9 | Work groups differ from free-forming groups outside employment in that they evolve over long periods of time . |
| 10 | Here at last was the starting point for a science that would attempt to explain the present state of the earth and its inhabitants in terms of natural processes acting over long periods of time . |
| 11 | Georgi Lozanov 's work is particularly apposite to memory training ; students learn a remarkable number of words at a session , with little or no forgetting over long periods of time . |
| 12 | Though involving less spectacular rates of uplift , crustal unloading by denudation is a far more pervasive process which extends over long periods of time , in contrast to the rather transient effects of deglaciation and evaporation of lakes . |
| 13 | If you have approximately ten minutes of work left to reach a good stopping point and , if you have approximately ten minutes of time available ( e.g. before schoolchildren arrive home ) THEN either a few , some or all stitches will immediately fall off the machine and ruin all your plans to finish on time . |
| 14 | By doing this he will become able to maintain control for gradually increasing amounts of time . |
| 15 | It is also an independent feeding method which involves a separate rod and line to lower the dropper in , or , if used with the same rod and line with which you are fishing , takes up precious minutes of time when your hookbait could be in the water ; valuable minutes when the barbel are mad on feed . |
| 16 | But surely the proposition that the unemployment rate could be held below its natural value for fairly long periods of time runs counter to the neoclassical model of labour market behaviour ? |
| 17 | In fact , the dining room should bc a particularly interesting room to decorate , because , like the bathroom , it is generally used for comparatively short periods of time , and then mostly at night . |
| 18 | Metals such as zinc , copper , cadmium and lead are believed to stay in the soil for " almost geological lengths of time " . |
| 19 | However , there are at least three arrows of time that do distinguish the past from the future . |
| 20 | It is interesting to note however that Nepalese men and women spend almost equal amounts of time involved in their own activities and with their family . |
| 21 | The majority had therefore experienced secure employment for relatively long periods of time . |
| 22 | In other words , the practice of placing infants to sleep on their own , for relatively long periods of time , which is widespread in Western industrialised societies , is not only historically and culturally unique but also evolutionarily recent . |
| 23 | Programs typically reference the same limited areas of storage for relatively long periods of time . |
| 24 | Aerobic exercise is characterized by the body using large muscle groups in rhythmical continuous activity for relatively long periods of time . |
| 25 | Mood in such circumstances , however , generally refers to a state such as depression typically continuing for relatively long periods of time , often hours or days . |
| 26 | Above all it is important for the staff planning groups to decide what ‘ interdisciplinary ’ work or topic work will actually mean for the learner in practice , and choice will depend in part on the school 's view of the ‘ whole picture ’ spread across quite long periods of time , with the teachers planning carefully how they intend to create a balanced curriculum over weeks and months . |
| 27 | For quite long periods of time it went away and he forgot it . |
| 28 | There is little systematic evidence of how people in other cultures get on with one another , but it should be noted that within a tribal community there may be such strong libidinal ties among the members that the interrelations among them appear peaceful , and may be so for quite long periods of time . |
| 29 | You 'll spend quite long periods of time working entirely alone , but study need not be an unsociable , let alone an anti-social , process . |
| 30 | So even when prices do fall very low for quite long periods of time , alright , farmers will still maintain production , even they 're making losses . |