Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power of one mind and resolution pitted against one other is often insufficient and the simple passage of time usually weakens resolve and blurs the memory of precisely what was said or promised . |
| 2 | This gap is still letting in the wind ; he can not see distinct segments of time past . |
| 3 | For example Bergmann et al , 1978 found that 38 per cent of a sample of 83 patients with organic mental disorder referred to a day hospital assessment unit lived alone ; and the authors concluded , after following up the sample for 12 months , that those who lived alone were least likely to be maintained at home for that period of time even with substantial support from social services , and recommended that resources should be concentrated on those who lived with their families . |
| 4 | Declining per capita income over a prolonged period of time usually results in a change of government , sometimes after a revolution or a military coup . |
| 5 | In granting an exemption the Commission can attach appropriate conditions to the operation of the agreement such as , for example , a requirement that the parties notify the Commission as to the future operation of the agreement and/or review its operation prior to the expiry of the exemption , to limit the operation of the exemption for a specific period of time so as to enable the Commission to review its operation at some future date . |
| 6 | But take a little bit of time now to think of a building , or a thing , or a place or an animal or a street Right |
| 7 | We are here at the beginning of a new phase in the restoration of old customs and the addition of new ones , which in a brief space of time greatly altered the liturgical arrangements laid down by Lanfranc . |
| 8 | But many feel that they are being forced to spend large amounts of time unnecessarily testing pupils and recording achievement . |
| 9 | ‘ You work all over the place , and you must spend a great deal of time away from home . ’ |
| 10 | He spent a great deal of time inexpertly milking complaining cows , only to feed most of the milk to the pigs . |
| 11 | The hunters , usually dominant males , spend a great deal of time together in the process . |
| 12 | ‘ Long periods of racial oppression ’ , he writes , ‘ can result in a system of inequality that may persist for indefinite periods of time even after racial barriers are removed ’ ( p. 146 ) . |
| 13 | If a search for money and/or an avoidance of stress are two indicators of strong arousals from this goal category , then it is clear that some people can be motivated for long periods of time either by stress avoidance or by accumulating more and more money . |
| 14 | But the broad package of interventions and centralization over such a long period of time surely outstrips that carried out by any previous government . |
| 15 | Yeah but you 're not used to him being home all the time are you Lyn , I mean for a long period of time like . |
| 16 | In this type of study , trend values of consumption and income are collected over a long period of time so that most cyclical fluctuations are smoothed out . |
| 17 | The reason for all this is because carp are very hard fish to catch and carp fishermen fish for a long period of time often a few nights and days . |
| 18 | But what I am saying in context , no this has a deal to do with the co boundaries , as you know erm the honourable member well knows , the essence of this this is wholly inappropriate in terms of erm trying to latest citizenship through an arrangement of six additional boundaries into a erm union and a political state and I think that that is the profound objection that this side of the house has expressed over a long period of time now , is a reflection of the public mood in the country in respect of this election and the way the boundaries er are are erm apportioned and all I say in conclusion is that this is an evidence further of the irrelevance of this house in reflecting and attesting to public opinion outside . |
| 19 | We have had a problem for a long period of time now on high conductivity . |
| 20 | The element of ‘ reliability ’ ( getting up early consistently for a substantial period of time etc. ) was also absent . |
| 21 | So it our recommendation that it is premature at this pro frozen moment of time particularly with the additional thoughts of the inner northern relief road to be considering in a structure plan a western relief road . |
| 22 | If the Apple/Microsoft system can be made to work on both PCs and Macintoshes and is actually delivered within a reasonable space of time then it may become a second standard . |
| 23 | ‘ I simply meant somewhere for Jennifer to go on a regular basis for short periods of time simply to give you both a rest . |
| 24 | Sinus or supraventriuclar rhythms spent a smaller proportion of time away from the baseline that the sinusoidal rhythms of VT or VF . |
| 25 | Erm yeah for a short period of time perhaps about two years ago . |
| 26 | The reader will probably object that a hideous primal trauma of parricide and rape is all very well for purposes of explaining the subsequent guilt and neurotic inhibitions of the perpetrators of these ghastly crimes , but can hardly hope to explain how they succeeded in transmitting their new-found superegos to their children , and certainly will not explain how , when all the primal fathers were gone ( a process which may have taken a considerable period of time admittedly , but which must have happened eventually ) , when there were no more primal parricides to be procured , human societies could still construct their civilization on the acquisition of the superego . |
| 27 | In the universities , where in the sixties rioting students and the educated tele-celebrities of the ‘ chattering classes ’ had commanded public attention , there were now dormant , apolitical students anxious only for their future employment , and embittered lecturers suffering a crisis of morale and lamenting the bureaucratic invasion of time traditionally left for teaching and research . |
| 28 | in a very short space of time then , but then carries on . |
| 29 | If he had n't been put into the jail , I do n't know what would have been the result today but … before he even had his jail sentence served , applications were coming in from town an in that short space of time about 1966 , our church more than doubled in membership and in churches . |
| 30 | Which will give you just about the right amount of time then to walk up . |