Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For our answer we have made an arbitrary assumption that he uses his car for 80% of the time for business and that half the repairs etc. relate to that car . |
| 2 | pH >7 was used to define abnormal alkalinity in the oesophagus because in normal volunteers the pH of the oesophagus is between 4 and 7 for 96% of the time . |
| 3 | Thirdly the equipment and systems reliability of ‘ high-bay ’ warehouses can now achieve very high levels provided that maintenance is kept to an adequate standard ; availability of equipment for use is often in excess of 97% of the time work is available . |
| 4 | They did not , for instance , examine how a head looks at the development of fellow-staff after the time of first appointment . |
| 5 | For instance , at Prudential Assurance , the taxable disturbance allowance of £1724 is paid in two equal instalments ; employees receive one payment of £862 at the time of their transfer and the balance one year later . |
| 6 | The MCC employed eleven members of staff at the time of investigation and ran a development corporation which was involved in renovating and constructing housing as well as providing local jobs . |
| 7 | Malek , 54 , who had held several senior government and Republican Party posts and was noted for his managerial skills , had been considered a strong candidate for White House Chief of Staff at the time of Sununu 's appointment . |
| 8 | The army retained the key post of Interior and Defence , filled by Gen. ( retd ) Carl Michel Nicolas , Army Chief of Staff at the time of the Army-inspired killings during the election of November 1987 [ see pp. 35697-98 ] . |
| 9 | With 43 years ’ service Barbara was our longest serving member of staff at the time . |
| 10 | During the period of the Call-slip analysis and book condition survey — that is , between 12 and 24 January 1981 — the second copy of each call-slip submitted to the Issue Counter was stamped by a member of staff with the time and date of its submission , and when it ultimately arrived in the Reading Room , accompanied by the book to which it related , the time and date of its arrival was recorded on it by one of two fieldwork students from the College of Librarianship Wales who assisted in the implementation of the Survey . |
| 11 | For 16–18-year-olds , half should be in full-time further education by 1979 , compared with 12% at the time of the report . |
| 12 | Basing her analysis on data from a large-scale , representative sample of women and men at the age of 23 , she shows that 16 per cent of single working-class men and 22 per cent of single working-class women were living with kin at the time of the survey . |
| 13 | You do n't have to be witty or attractive or intelligent , you just have to be there with people for the time you 've stipulated . |
| 14 | There was also little difference in the proportions who had actually received help from kin at the time of childbirth . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're confined to barracks for the time being , Private Nobody . ’ |
| 16 | My latest specimen has increased from 8 cm in November 1991 , to 30cm at the time of writing ( mid-June ) . |
| 17 | The company claims it can trim 10% to 15% off the time needed to resolve a customer call or problem . |
| 18 | Almost all previous contact with the Board had been through courses of one or two days duration — mostly held on a trainee 's farm ( but also at local education colleges in England and Wales ) , with up to 70% of the time being spent on trainee participation and practice . |
| 19 | The photographer offered to sell him the negatives for £30 at the time but he did n't have the money . |
| 20 | Under the letter of intent , StorageTek agreed to issue 1.3m new shares Amperif shareholders and will set aside about 600,000 shares for warrants and employee stock options , valuing the company at $75.3m at the time of the announcement — but that valuation quickly improved to $83.6m as Storage shares shot up $4.375 to $44 even in after-hours trading on the news , and hovered round there on Friday . |
| 21 | ( b ) The problem of sustaining pupils ' independent use of the library after library induction , since it was only manned for 60% of the time , and often there was no one there to mediate between pupils ' needs and the resources . |
| 22 | Damaged by its losses — which were reduced by $80m by the time the quarter ended — Comdisco had its credit rating chopped and reported a net loss for the quarter ended December 31 , 1987 , of $56m … despite a growth in revenue to $327m from $268m . |
| 23 | We should not leave this brief consideration of how war was regarded by people of the time with the impression that greed and anarchy prevailed . |
| 24 | The course of a cholera epidemic , for instance , can be reported and its causes investigated by means of excerpts from documents written by people at the time . |