Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , therefore , not surprising that many portable instruments for the determination of time were required , including the chief instrument used by both Arabic and Latin astronomers , the astrolabe . |
| 2 | She looked so like my daughter did at her age , and the pleasure she gave me compensated for the lack of time I had with her mother when she was a child . |
| 3 | Among the conventions for the division of time that have come down to us from Imperial Rome is the seven-day week . |
| 4 | Younger people have a natural tendency to believe that the science they practise has been extant for the whole of time . |
| 5 | Cut off values for acid clearance times of 290 seconds and for the percentage of time at pH<4 of 11.5% discriminated in all but one patient between groups I and II . |
| 6 | If such stipulations are made for so mundane a practice as motoring , they would seem to be reasonable precautions for protecting our environment for the rest of time from possible damage by man-made creatures . |
| 7 | They all knew that ; leaks can be repudiated for the rest of time — it changes nothing . |
| 8 | She would n't touch that glass again , not if Gerry were trapped in Purgatory for the rest of time , she would n't . |
| 9 | Edward Teller then worked through the implications with Alvarez and , unaware of Frank and Sakharov 's works , they reported ‘ a short but exhilarating experience when we thought we had solved all of the fuel problems of mankind for the rest of time . |
| 10 | Although the military authorities soon vacated the school to move into Doncaster Racecourse across the road , the re-opening of the school had been delayed and the Christmas holidays had to be cut to make up for the loss of time . |
| 11 | For the moment of time I thought about it , I remember thinking : ‘ Who is going to be hurt by this ? ’ |
| 12 | Here the company offering the contract agrees to offer a replacement car or plane for the period of time in which the vehicle is down for maintenance , repairs etc . |
| 13 | There is a large body of case law concerned with the meaning of particular expressions in particular contexts , but the drafter should bear in mind the cautionary words of Lord Esher MR : No general rule exists for the computation of time , either under the Bankruptcy Act or any other statute , or , indeed , where time is mentioned in a contract , and the rational mode of computation of time is to have regard in each case to the purpose for which the computation is to be made ( Re North , ex parte Hasluck [ 1895 ] 2 QB 264 ) . |
| 14 | Clients are charged for the amount of time they take up , including the length of the interview and any telephone calls . |
| 15 | Signal morphology was analysed by the probability density function for the amount of time the signal spent away from the electrical baseline . |
| 16 | Under the changes solicitors will receive a flat rate for each legal aid case rather than for the amount of time spent on individual cases . |
| 17 | Under the changes solicitors will receive a flat rate for each legal aid case rather than for the amount of time spent on individual cases . |
| 18 | As he studied the list of names of men who had evaded the Dragoons , the names of 2 Ayrshiremen took his attention , both for the length of time they had eluded ‘ justice ’ . |
| 19 | Other things being equal , the higher the average for the length of time a person is unemployed , the greater will be the number unemployed at any moment in time . |
| 20 | Hoof and horn is yet another animal end product valuable as a long-lasting slow-release supplier of nitrogen , and in the same class as bone meal for the length of time it takes . |
| 21 | Maybe they even try to swim against it which might account for the length of time that passes before they reach European waters . |
| 22 | Because we know that the rules keep changing slightly during the course of time , it does not follow that there should be no rules . |
| 23 | However , the information collected will be determined by the situations and activities in which the child is engaged during the period of time being sampled . |
| 24 | The project starts from the basic hypothesis that modernisation of agricultural and industrial regions was extremely uneven during the period of time here considered , and that this uneven development may have had important consequences for the development of the internal market for both agricultural and industrial products , even to some degree determining the structure and efficiency of production . |
| 25 | fatigue increases and mental performance worsens as the amount of time spent on the task increases , particularly if we have lost sleep or the task is repetitive and boring . |
| 26 | As we shall see in Chapter 5 , other elements of prison life are equally important , such as the amount of time prisoners are kept cooped up in cells and the lack of opportunities for activities of all kinds . |
| 27 | The rules cover all aspects of daily life , such as the use of time , prayer , and conduct to superiors , inferiors and family . |
| 28 | The APB went on to observe that ‘ … the degree of reliance that can reasonably be placed on financial statements will decrease as the length of time that has elapsed since their approval by the directors increases ’ . |
| 29 | It may also be expected that the two systems will differ in other respects , such as the length of time each operates or the intensity of intervention , with care management being more concentrated and longer-term . |
| 30 | Birth timing or spacing is measured as the length of time that has elapsed between marriage and first birth , between successive births ( closed birth intervals ) and between the last birth and the observation ( open birth interval ) . |