Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas church bells announced the times of the various religious offices , the communal clock was a secular instrument that struck the hours , and by the end of the fourteenth century some were made that struck the quarters , although this did not mean that they were any more accurate . |
| 2 | Then in the 1979 paper he found that subjects placed the time of occurrence of this sensation only a few milliseconds after the peripheral stimulus which evoked it . |
| 3 | Did the authors record the time of uterine contraction after delivery and , if so , was there any relation to neonatal outcome ? |
| 4 | ‘ If you can spend five weeks having the time of your life and get paid at the end of it — why not ? ’ he asks . |
| 5 | That means looking up the tide tables to see the times of high and low water and the tidal stream list to find the maximum rates . |
| 6 | He jumps off waterfalls to pass the time of day . |
| 7 | Little wonder that a meal of mainly refined foods , gulped down in seconds , tends to lead to second helpings to extend the time of eating , or another meal or snack shortly afterwards to ‘ bulk out ’ the eating pleasure of the day . |
| 8 | What made it worse , was that the police had the time of the tram-cars and the time it took to get to a certain stop . |
| 9 | To save the most money , consumers would have to change their habits to shift the times of peak demand . |