Example sentences of "[verb] the time [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , it is not legitimate to compare the time taken for these two different tasks , so Dooling used two different types of context for each task . |
| 2 | ‘ Flaubert does not build up his characters , as did Balzac , by objective , external description ; in fact , so careless is he of their outward appearance that … ’ it would be interesting to compare the time spent by Flaubert making sure that his heroine had the rare and difficult eyes of a tragic adulteress with the time spent by Dr Starkie in carelessly selling him short . |
| 3 | Hamilton 's new record of 1.06.98 eclipsed the time set by Marion Madine by 0.09 secs . |
| 4 | Nimue or the Lily Maid would require a model and the Princess can hardly be asked for so much of her time , though I hope she may think the time spent on ‘ Christabel before Sir Leoline ’ was not wholly wasted . |
| 5 | The effect they have on performance is to increase the time taken for transactions on the Working-Set database . |
| 6 | FORGET the time recorded by Clydal Pal in the opening heats of the Ulster Derby ( 550 ) and give him some support in the first semi-final at Dunmore Stadium tomorrow night . |
| 7 | The optimum bucket size to minimize the time taken by operations carried out on a file depends on the nature of the operation . |
| 8 | To Charles he was an indispensable source of wisdom and experience and he relished the time spent in his company . |
| 9 | Put briefly and simply what is required is to write a formula that will allocate the time spent to the appropriate project column where it is then multiplied by the relevant charging rate to show the amount of money due from the client . |
| 10 | This will avoid the inclination of either management or labour to wrongly allocate the time spent on work attracting bonus to other non-bonus operations . |
| 11 | These were the gig mills , which raised the nap on the cloth prior to shearing and vastly shortened the time needed compared with the old hand method , and shearing frames , which by mechanically aligning the heavy forty-pound shears reduced the time taken to a quarter . |
| 12 | Though expensive and time-consuming , the change cut the time needed for the project from three or four years to two . |
| 13 | Do not send the time advised of the illness code sensitive illnesses appropriately ) |
| 14 | In general they overestimate the amount available and underestimate the time wasted by being fragmented in small amounts on rather trivial matters . |
| 15 | Computers for business use , on the other hand , were oriented towards operations on strings of characters and would require much more extensive transput facilities ; arithmetic would normally be in decimal rather than binary , to avoid the time taken in conversion . |
| 16 | The rates of diffusion of two gases may be compared by measuring the time taken for a given volume of each gas to diffuse through a porous surface under identical conditions . |
| 17 | He considered the problem of measuring the time taken by a voice in making a single sound . |
| 18 | The hospital services used by patients includes the time spent in the operating theatre ; medical , nursing and hotel services provided on the ward , services provided in out patient checks and injection endoscopy procedures , units of blood , and prescribed drugs . |
| 19 | Contrast the time taken by the West to take action in Somalia to the instant reaction to the invasion of Kuwait . |
| 20 | A knowledge of how to set up and operate a machine could reduce the likelihood of a breakdown so minimising the time spent on repairs . |
| 21 | In order to justify the time spent on producing them , the copies should be consistently clear and legible . |
| 22 | The laboratory experiments also exclude the time spent on the actual flight itself . |
| 23 | ‘ This reduces the time spent on training and saves duplication for people who have already completed as initial full-day Team . |
| 24 | However , greater multidisciplinary use of the nursing notes would decrease the time spent on the latter , and it may be possible to further condense the planning rounds . |
| 25 | By time-stamping a call-slip on its submission , and by recording on its second copy the time of its arrival , accompanied by the relevant book , in the Reading Room , it was possible to determine the time taken for a reader 's request to be satisfied . |
| 26 | Therefore , convert the time given on the chart to a Distance . |
| 27 | Only five years before , an inter-departmental committee set up jointly by the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor 's Department , under the chairmanship of a High Court Judge , had rejected the solution of permanent Crown Courts to handle the much increased workload of criminal cases and to reduce the time spent by defendants awaiting trial . |
| 28 | The different relative lengths of queues can be very important in determining the time spent on the waiting list . |
| 29 | These consultations were analysed by TIMER , a methodology which quantifies the time allocated to five physical , nine verbal , and four secondary task activities . |
| 30 | A significant number were aimed at positive prevention and these included altering the time allowed for lesson changeover to reduce crowd chaos , a decision to involve all staff in corridor supervision , a move to set up mutual support pairs amongst staff and the creation of a rewards system following the realization that for non-academic pupils the school offered little or no incentives . |