Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] [noun] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recreation , tourism and sport are products of the industrial era , and especially the result of increasing leisure time since the Second World War . |
| 2 | These fortunate people are able to seize the opportunities of more leisure time . |
| 3 | The need to be able to get about is essential for daily life , and also to take advantage of increased leisure time . |
| 4 | This is the last half hour of legal drinking time , and staff are pulling Guinness from every tap . |
| 5 | Before , the main component of idle production time was idle labour ; today , given that machine down time costs seven times the rate of employing someone , the knowledge to maintain and repair machines becomes the most important skill . |
| 6 | The decisions about teaching practice and the provision of second method time have changed quite radically my method course . |
| 7 | The industrial equivalent of fiddling while Rome burns is to spend hours of internal management time arguing about the allocation of costs between departments or divisions , when the real problem is that the whole cost of the operation is too high . |
| 8 | She still had a few hours of useful painting time left , but now she could not concentrate . |
| 9 | LEAKED memoranda from the Department of the Environment were yesterday used by Labour to protest at the alleged abuse of civil service time to cost Labour 's programme . |
| 10 | In addition , some stations may , according to the state of the market , either offer extra ‘ support ’ spots to buyers of sufficient peak time ; or insist on buyers taking unpopular ‘ support ’ spots as well as the peak spots they want . |
| 11 | His stance should be relaxed , not fixed , since an unspecialized stance provides mobility and avoids the waste of valuable reaction time involved in switching to the best stance with which to meet an oncoming attack . |
| 12 | The view that private sector employment is a waste of valuable career time is less widely held , now that the private sector is beginning to take its share of providing additional training and in-service education facilities for its own employees . |
| 13 | • a general perception among the population of shrinking leisure time , and the growing number of competing activities |
| 14 | Let us assume that we persuade the Government of the day to allow one day of prime Government time for that debate . |
| 15 | Employees may , however , face problems of increased travelling time or higher fares . |
| 16 | In conclusion , patients with cholesterol gall stones produce less metastable hepatic bile measured by the evidence of shorter nucleation time . |
| 17 | Although the cost of acquiring television advertising might be obviated by the facility of free air time through public service announcements in some countries , considerable resources are still required to produce the content . |
| 18 | The first recognition that response is not as it should be immediately conjures up visions of lost working time , expensive repairs , frustrating delays and , perhaps most evocative of all , the thought , ‘ how long is it since I last did a backup ? ’ |
| 19 | Figure 1 shows the graph of mean reaction time against levels of processing for each type of response . |
| 20 | First , I should very much welcome any extension of Welsh Question Time , because that would be such an advantage to the Government side of the House . |
| 21 | In terms of straight production time we have found that we can cut the time taken to assemble 16 pages of editorial from word processed files on a PC-compatible to finished pages on a Macintosh to just one working day . |
| 22 | In terms of vocal reaction time Bradshaw and Taylor ( 1979 ) found that inverted sinistrals showed a weaker RVF superiority than non-inverters . |
| 23 | For Davidson , the cost in terms of senior management time has to be looked on as ‘ an investment : you ca n't afford to spend less time on it . |
| 24 | A problem with this manoeuvre , however , is that certain evidence implicates the right hemisphere in control of simple reaction time ( Benson and Barton , 1970 ; Howes and Boller , 1975 ; Nakamura and Taniguchi , 1977 ) and thus equivalent response times for left and right hemisphere groups may not in fact reflect equivalent damage at the two sides of the brain . |
| 25 | One example is the late Triassic brachiopod Halorella , which is large and distinctive and which has been recorded from every continent except Antarctica , in rocks dating from quite a small span of late Triassic time ( figure 2.1 ) . |
| 26 | Resources : the economic use of limited teacher time |
| 27 | 2.4.4.2 Application of One Year Time Bar to Claims for Wrong Delivery |
| 28 | The results of segmental transit time are given in Table II . |
| 29 | Complex component testing even with ATE available can take hours ( >4 hours ) and sometimes days , so it can take a lot of valuable testing time just to declare ‘ no fault found ’ . |
| 30 | Based on the argument outlined above , measures of inter-hemispheric transfer time have ranged from around 3 msec . |