Example sentences of "[verb] the time it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the time it takes for non-experts to put up a house , the interest charges on your loan may eat considerably into the discount you capture by using your own labour , says Tuffin . |
| 2 | Given the time it takes to write and then publish a book , our apparently insatiable appetite for the stuff causes real problems : the satirical observation conceived now is likely to look at best , a little tired , and , at worst , incomprehensible , in twelve to eighteen months ' time . |
| 3 | Your time from the station now equals the time it took to get the 10° change of bearing . |
| 4 | She probably spent the time it took her to get to Alès working out her story . |
| 5 | The principal method of investigation is to show people sentences one at a time on a computer screen and measure the time it takes to understand a sentence . |
| 6 | That now does useful work , powering a pneumatic grease gun , a tool that Mr Tomlinson says has halved the time it takes to grease up the Mengele forager each morning . |
| 7 | ‘ A man like you might have looked through the screens of the rickshaw ; might have counted the time it took to reach the place , calculated the direction in which you were taken . ’ |
| 8 | The treatment can decrease the time it takes the body to remove the lactic acid build-up in your muscles . |
| 9 | But , if they were to reduce the time it takes to qualify , I definitely do n't think is should be any less than four years . |
| 10 | All Hewlett-Packard and third-party components that make up the OpenWarehouse are evaluated , lab-tested and integrated to reduce the time it takes to implement it and ensure robust , supportable installations , Hewlett-Packard claims . |
| 11 | All Hewlett-Packard and third-party components that make up the OpenWarehouse are evaluated , lab-tested and integrated to reduce the time it takes to implement it and ensure robust , supportable installations , Hewlett-Packard claims . |
| 12 | This partly explains why the review took the time it did , since the computer can spend nearly four days running a full set of figures . |
| 13 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 14 | To improve the assimilation of new staff into CA and reduce the time it takes for them to be working to full potential |
| 15 | To improve the assimilation of new overseas staff into CA and Britain , and reduce the time it takes for them to be working to full potential |