Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personal transport had since the dawn of time been limited to footslogging or a horse not too exhausted by its labour in the fields . |
| 2 | It seems rather strange that the accuracy for navigating/surveying now , by state of the art technology , is of the same order as has been used to set down the Circles of Time several thousand years ago . |
| 3 | 2 nurses can perform a dressing more efficiently and cut down the length of time a wound is exposed and at risk and the number of times hands need to be washed . |
| 4 | They have to overcome difficulties to accomplish these tasks so the amount of time involved increases the more the women participate and the less support workers take over . |
| 5 | But in the history of warfare new weapon systems rarely achieve immediate dominance : only the passage of time and operational experience decides whether the older , well-tried systems should be superseded or not . |
| 6 | Only the passage of time is revealing a broad evolutionary stream that springs from Constructivism and is nourished by various forms of Expressionism , such as Dada and Surrealism . |
| 7 | The clue to one 's dissatisfaction comes on page 60 when , in the course of a short section on advertising and television , Hewison writes , ‘ Our world picture breaks up , splintered into clips and cuts , suspended on an unending flow of imagery , a single sentence of infinite variety , with only the passage of time as continuity . ’ |
| 8 | She knew she 'd be happier with a specific task to take her mind off things rather than just sitting about waiting for whatever might happen next , even if it was only the passing of time . |
| 9 | It is not only the length of time that someone has been unemployed that is important , but also the fact that it affects a person 's lifetime income . |
| 10 | 9 ) " Planning ahead is as much a waste of time for my business as it is for me . |
| 11 | We were in danger of creating a system which would involve testing over far too long a period of time . |
| 12 | In the 1890s the British botanist H. B. Guppy , who specialized in the study of oceanic islands , began to argue that dispersal was merely a function of time : the oldest genera were the most widespread , whatever their powers of dispersal . |
| 13 | Mr Barzani says the fall of Saddam Hussein is merely a matter of time . |
| 14 | A blow against the Republic from the right was now merely a matter of time . |
| 15 | The Soviet Union saw no need to remain in military terms and appears to have thought it was merely a matter of time before communism was extended to the southern half of the peninsula . |
| 16 | Even 4 September seemed an age ago now , part of a deluded past when she had believed her abduction was a simple crime committed for gain , when she had thought her release was imminent , her restoration to the pampered life she had led merely a matter of time and money . |
| 17 | I told him the letter had been posted on to you and it was merely a matter of time before you got it . ’ |
| 18 | It was merely a matter of time and I knew it . |
| 19 | Wooden dolls are slid up and down a pole in time with the music , and castanets and bells , on the dolls ' backs , make a percussion sound . |
| 20 | The national companies such as Mexico and Venezuela are still re-organizing themselves and obviously a lot of time , effort and nervous energy is being spent by people on figuring out what to do in the C I S , where there are obviously great opportunities , but great risks as well . |
| 21 | The coherence is therefore not only a coherence over time but also a consistency or cohesion in action . |
| 22 | Underpowered , overweight and outdated , the once 200 strong fleet , affectionately known as ‘ Whistlers ’ was in decline from the mid-1970s , and when major overhauls ceased at BREL Crewe in 1981 it was only a question of time before they disappeared first from top link Eastern Region duties , and finally in 1985 freight workings originating from the North West . |
| 23 | De Gaulle was not immortal , and so it was only a question of time before further attempts could be made to find a sheltered anchorage off the Western European shore . |
| 24 | The Midlands ' shop stewards knew it was only a question of time before the strike affected supplies to their own plants and those in the South , jeopardising the recovery plan which had been producing such vast improvements in performance . |
| 25 | They told me that no one had ever been hurt like this ; but was n't it only a question of time ? |
| 26 | And it is only a question of time before cholera , raging in northern Brazil , reaches Rio . |
| 27 | It was only a question of time — unless help arrived . |
| 28 | Its value abroad was too high for the UK to compete , so its fall was only a question of time . |
| 29 | I knew from that moment that it was only a question of time — and perseverance on his part — before he would be completely cured . |
| 30 | It was only a question of time . |