Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In most countries , groundwater flows from aquifers throughout the year but rainfall replenishes them for only part of the time . |
| 2 | In HWIM the correct phoneme was included in the top two scores of the vector only 65% of the time . |
| 3 | Overpricing ( after allowing for transaction costs ) was found only 3% of the time . |
| 4 | Law Society research shows that business affairs work provides 28% of the profession 's fee income , but takes only 12% of the time ; while 3 in 5 practices predict that business affairs will continue to become a more important source of fees . |
| 5 | Few carers in the study were in employment , reflecting the earnings limit which was only £12 at the time . |
| 6 | adversely affect your ability to carry out the duties required by the ES ( eg overlap with the time you are required to work for ES or leave you too tired to be able to carry out your ES duties properly ) ; or |
| 7 | But subsequent albums , especially Sign of the Times have seen Prince 's cultural schizophrenia implode within individual songs . |
| 8 | Whichever way , she probably had n't given it much thought at the time and it had been some time later when her mother had told her that he had left the country and gone abroad to work . |
| 9 | Simultaneous food and acid reflux occurred for only 0.95+5.2/-1.2% of the time . |
| 10 | The correct word was included about 60% of the time , although it was found in the first position of the list of alternatives only 18% of the time . |
| 11 | The ball raised approximately £40,000 for the Time Walker Education Endowment Fund , which will provide education for future generations so that they understand the vital importance of conservation . |
| 12 | Then Maxham waved a square , clean hand , brushing aside Tolby for the time being . |
| 13 | It was nearly daylight by the time we reached the summit . |
| 14 | He pursued not only economies of scale but also reductions in the time occupied by movements which occurred within establishments so that labour could be used efficiently . |
| 15 | The actual cost of the loan , over 15 years , would be nearly £50,000 by the time you had paid it in full . |
| 16 | And under the sites may also availability at the time of booking . |
| 17 | There was also controversy at the time when the East Belfast MP claimed the new station , with its one fire engine , could not provide as much cover as Castlereagh , which had two appliances . |
| 18 | The data we have at the moment suggest that we should reach our targets about 80% of the time , but our aim over the years will be not only to reach the targets in a higher proportion of cases but also to make the targets more difficult . |
| 19 | People in the street must be approached and told that they are now editor of The Times for a month . |
| 20 | The correct word was included about 60% of the time , although it was found in the first position of the list of alternatives only 18% of the time . |
| 21 | Clearly the view that sociability arises primarily in the context of feeding can not be upheld ; the physical-care experiences examined can not account for variations in behaviour-not even behaviour at the time . |
| 22 | However , often the best way of challenging a dysfunctional attitude is to test out the validity of the attitude , for example a client who believed he could not stand going to a party might be invited to test this belief out by going , for at least part of the time . |
| 23 | Although he intended to live in the house , for at least part of the time , he saw it too as saleable and the value or price of it ( however you liked to put it ) going up every year . |
| 24 | In Lancaster , where I 'd come out , there had always been a mixed scene ; in many places outside the big towns , most of the lesbians and gay men continued to hang together for at least part of the time because there did n't seem enough of us to consider doing much else . |
| 25 | An eighth of them opted for friendship groups for at least part of the time , and a few grouped their pupils by age . |
| 26 | My eldest daughter Ailsa was staying there part of the time , studying art at the Byam Shaw College of Art , and falling in love with her tutor , whom she later married . |
| 27 | But Bert was there part of the time . " |
| 28 | David Gilford , for instance , hits the fairway with his tee shot at least 80% of the time , Tony Johnstone gets up and down from greenside bunkers around 90% of the time and , just as remarkable , Colin Montgomerie hits 77% of greens in regulation . |
| 29 | David Gilford , for instance , hits the fairway with his tee shot at least 80% of the time , Tony Johnstone gets up and down from greenside bunkers around 90% of the time and , just as remarkable , Colin Montgomerie hits 77% of greens in regulation . |
| 30 | The book emerged on Monday , on Wednesday was broadcast as a play , on Thursday Daniel George ( Dan , Dan , the literary man , John calls him ) spoke on the wireless and said she was the greatest writer of her day , and on Sunday morning the book was discussed by a querulous little bunch called ‘ The Critics ’ , who seem to be part of the Establishment , and on Sunday afternoon , lo and behold , the television ( commercial ) went into Braemar Mansions itself , where she was interviewed by Alan Pryce-Jones [ then Editor of The Times Literary Supplement ] … . |