Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] [adj -er] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effects of oil pollution on marine mammals are more severe in colder waters , not only because of the much longer time required for the oil to break down , but also because concentrations of cetaceans and other marine mammals are often larger in polar waters . |
| 2 | But Walker , who is contender for Great Britain 's Olympic team , was clearly hoping for a much better time on what amounted to a solo run . |
| 3 | Normally you will want to use full side-slip for a few seconds rather than a small amount of slip for a much longer time . |
| 4 | We will only know the answer to this and many other questions when televising has continued for a much longer time . |
| 5 | The phrase ‘ community participation ’ has been used for a much longer time . |
| 6 | Oddly enough , his father , whom Peter had known for a much shorter time , was quite distinct in his memory , right down to the smell of Palmolive shaving cream and Gold Leaf cigarettes . |
| 7 | In England this power has for a very long time been delegated , so far as barristers are concerned , to the Inns of Court : and , for a much shorter time , so far as solicitors are concerned , to the Law Society . |
| 8 | It 's really come to the fore and has been seen as a political force for a much shorter time than , say , a hundred years , and I am wonder if , in that short time , because that 's how we can judge things , I mean presumably you were aware of the way women were treated before the Women 's Movement started raising it 's profile , and you 're aware of the way things are now , do you see much change ? |
| 9 | property thus recoverable developed a set of legal characteristics which caused it to differ considerably from property which was recoverable only by a personal action ; and so , though the real actions have long been abolished , and for a still longer time disused , the differences between real and personal property survived . |
| 10 | The Lincolnshire fitters quickly crashed out with an even worse time . |
| 11 | Many will still regard Michael Dickinson 's big-race achievements with a much smaller team in a considerably shorter time , as more impressive . |
| 12 | I was grateful to him for his tribute to the members of the two boundary committees , they did do an excellent job , they did it as he implied , slightly less un generously to the government er in a considerably shorter time than they and we would have liked but they did it very well and they did it very fairly . |
| 13 | Water can applied at a lower application rate in a much faster time or heavier rate if required simply by adjusting the travel speed . |
| 14 | I may modify my behaviour to conform to the expectations of the group , and I will do so in a much shorter time than I would in a one-to-one relationship . |
| 15 | There are various methods of training these and they can provide as much fruit as larger trees in a much shorter time . |
| 16 | Think , by way of comparison , of the change that man has wrought in a much shorter time by genetic selection of dogs . |
| 17 | The major difference appears to be that of timescale ; perfusion is spread over a much longer time scale than arterial infusion . |
| 18 | We 've got to look at it in those terms , and so it is not necessary in my submission for anyone to prove at the moment there is at least five thousand dwellings short , erm that that is something which ought to be considered over a much longer time period . |
| 19 | The previous 1991 order was discussed at a slightly later time of night , but on the same day of the week nine months ago , since when there has been no significant change in the construction industry 's circumstances . |
| 20 | But the development of the idea of a ‘ nation ’ and the formation of nation states in Europe began at a much earlier time , and in order to understand the vigour of later nationalist movements in Europe and elsewhere we need to look more closely at that historical process . |