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

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1 Management has a choice about workers : it can pay them a pittance to control an on-off button , or minimise down time by training them to fix — ie program — the new machines .
2 What essentially what you need to do how to do is if you wan na be able to work Saturdays we need to be able to prove that in fact pound per , per item of post on a Saturday is cheaper than because the productivity in the week will be lower therefore and even at time and a half , the cost of doing an hour 's overtime for the work you get out in the week is , is less productive than doing double time with what you get out on a Saturday .
3 It is this latter fault alone which explains the fact that rather than waste precious time in thinking up some other location I was lazily content to make Miller 's London home a flat rather like the one in which I am now diligently at work , here in cruelly named Shepherd 's Bush .
4 Eddie Heley , Maintenance Fitter , was given £10 for an idea that could reduced wear and save down time on Axminster looms by fitting hardened brushes to the sneck sleeve bracket .
5 With the benefit of hindsight , these are now estimated at £4,900 , comprising expenses of £1,220 and lost chargeable time of £3,680 .
6 The paper included plans to privatize British Rail and London buses , to increase competition for the Post Office , to expedite the contracting out of local authority services to the private sector , and to shorten waiting times for hospital admissions .
7 Eventually he had to make a choice between management and working full time in front of the cameras — so he resigned at Villa .
8 Seven opposition parties on Nov. 12 rejected the election dates announced by the government two days earlier ( two rounds of voting on Jan. 24 and Feb. 27 , 1992 ) as allowing insufficient time for election campaigns .
9 The up to date Medical Report should be obtained now so as to allow adequate time for a Minute of Amendment or other investigation before the Proof .
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