Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 It 's not an exact ten minutes , it 's not an exact six hundred seconds , but what it is , is round about that period of time , after about ten minutes , what you do is you switch off and you go and do something else .
2 She hoped a fortnight was enough : she knew it was supposed to take about that length of time to get over chicken-pox , but perhaps it was more serious for adults .
3 The hierarchy of cycles for each division of time led the Maya to devote more attention to the past than to the future .
4 The accompanying curves showing maturity evolution for each formation with time ( Fig. 5 — right-hand diagram ) indicate that Westphalian A and B source rocks would have become gas-generative over the period mid Cretaceous to mid Oligocene .
5 Equally we might accept the temporal regress caused by supposing that for each moment in time there is a moment that precedes it , or the causal regress derived from the propositions that every event has a separate cause and that every cause is an event .
6 Here separate layers are chosen for each interval of time or frame throughout the complete operating cycle .
7 All purchasers of Time-Ownership at Slaley will receive an allocation of 10 free rounds of golf and 10 rounds at 50% discounted rate for each week of time purchased ! …
8 The manager produces a whole hospital work-level profile for specific periods of time for a 7-day period .
9 They should also indicate potential problems , which , if rectified at a sufficiently early stage , will avoid the need for unnecessary expenditure of time and money in seeking to correct the position .
10 Frieda describes the ‘ Conversion Point ’ as that moment in time when passes from wet to dry .
11 During that period of time , various doors were opening and closing .
12 Yeah but if they 're if they 're , if they 're at work during that period of time
13 These animals possess the remarkable ability to withstand intense heat and drought for prolonged periods of time .
14 It must have cost a lot of money to go for that amount of time ?
15 The thing with th , with getting there at two for the gate right , because you can go in and get seats , for that amount of time you want a seat .
16 ‘ I ca n't pay John any bigger compliment — to be underground for that length of time .
17 Thus , if the total award is large enough ( say , reflecting three years ' employment and loss of salary and contract benefits for that length of time ) , an ex gratia payment will not reduce your former employer 's legal liability towards you at all .
18 She had clung to the hope even for that length of time , but it had never happened .
19 His ability to A function as a surveillance office and B to function as a armed officer after being maybe in the er in a vehicle for that length of time er is both dangerous to the public and dangerous to him .
20 ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’
21 ‘ It 's hard to stand up for that length of time , ’ said Couples , who had two double-bogeys in his 71 .
22 Will you have enough to do down there for that length of time Christine ?
23 Will you have enough to do for that length of time .
24 Well it 's not because , because I object to the phone being taken out of commission for that length of time
25 I think , then what on earth does he want to be on the phone for that length of time for .
26 You get somebody who is very outrageous on stage but who is maybe very shy off stage , and I think being on stage in front of an audience enables you to step outside of your own body and be somebody else totally different for that period of time .
27 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 .
28 Okay , fair enough , it was turned over on appeal eventually erm but erm it was a bit of a miscarriage of justice being kept in prison for that period of time until it was overturned pleaded guilty to another murder but that 's by the by .
29 Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time .
30 The new political crisis makes it less likely that Italy will meet the EC 's requirements for economic convergence on time .
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