Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technique is therefore very powerful in the examination of systems that are chemically inhomogeneous , or even varying with time . |
| 2 | It is widely distributed in space among different individuals , and widely distributed in time over many generations . |
| 3 | They get tired , frustrated , irritable and downright incensed at times . |
| 4 | The actions are subject to random error terms each period , which are normal , independent and identically distributed through time with distributions and respectively . |
| 5 | Many genuine cases would have been put aside , delayed and not arranged in time — If the hon. Member for Oldham , West would like to challenge me on that — |
| 6 | ( If one refrains from oiling the gear teeth of a grandfather clock , the teeth will not only not collect the dust and so not grind each other away , but also become harder and more polished as times goes on and so last virtually for ever . ) |
| 7 | HCIMA will provide and regularly update from time to time information on the match between the content of the professional certificate programme and other equivalent/relevant courses , indicating areas where bridging studies are likely to be needed . |
| 8 | They should be shown how it may primarily be either an artefact in its own right or a means of conveying information ; how it functions as a tool of thought and as a creator of human relationships ; how it can be stored and readily transmitted across time and distance . |
| 9 | In theoretical work , the turbulence is supposed to be generated at an initial instant and then to decay as time proceeds . |
| 10 | In the last trial of activists linked to the pro-democracy movement which ended in the massacre in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , the poet and theorist Wu Jiaxing was sentenced on Aug. 25 to three years ' imprisonment for " counter-revolutionary incitement and propaganda " , and then released for time served . |
| 11 | A curiosity in Enescu 's output is the way that he sometimes bracketed under the same opus number works of the same genre but widely separated in time : the two Op. 24 piano sonatas of 1924 and 1935 , for example ( the latter in fact called No. 3 , since the composer confessed that No. 2 existed only in his head and was never written down ) , or the more extreme case of the two Op. 26 cello sonatas of 1898 and 1935 . |
| 12 | A third possibility , at first unusual but slowly growing with time , was retirement in the modern sense , on a pension . |
| 13 | Information but not comment from Time magazine , Vol. 134 , No. 1 , 1989 |
| 14 | With age , these colours fade , the black becoming grey over a beige/green background , but then returning at times of aggression and display , which are quite regular . |
| 15 | And yet this acute observer would describe the very same people — almost unaware of what she was observing — as physically overworked during times of busy trade , as eating and sleeping too little , as too physically exhausted for intellectual effort , at the mercy of ‘ the many chances of breakdown and failure meaning absence of physical comfort ’ . |
| 16 | It 's almost like a G.W. Fashions hallmark — though hard to recognise at times because of the fussy way it 's been handled . |