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

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1 He found first that ROI was remarkably stable over time at the company level , but that it showed considerable variation over time for individual businesses ( i.e. the SBUs ) .
2 The strains of being a Member of Parliament are extremely great from time to time .
3 Infants under 2 at time of departure are covered without cost when travelling with an insured person .
4 He found the King 's strength and confidence increasing and he had no doubts about his fitness to rule ; but the King was still anxious for time in which to adjust himself to his new station and duties .
5 They estimated y ( the extra term that appears in the no-arbitrage condition of a geometric index discussed in Section 5.2.9 ) , using the returns for the most recent 20 days , and found the resulting estimate was reasonably stable over time at an annual rate of 5.77% .
6 Tinkering with local government boundaries did not seem to help either , although it was clearly necessary from time to time to take steps to match the changing facts of social geography to local authority boundaries and status .
7 Norris virtually admits as much from time to time .
8 Are regularly close in time to the problem behaviour .
9 TFC 's Chief Engineer , Peter Rushen , told Flypast that repair and rectification work on the aircraft will now take place during the winter months and that the P-38 will be fully airworthy in time for the 1993 airshow season .
10 I 've managed to get them pretty manky from time to time and a spin through the washing machine brings them up as good as new .
11 I was just a bit too short of time on , on Friday to That 's about all I need .
12 You will note that the criteria for these usable answers describe antecedents and consequences that are very close in time to the problem behaviours and can possibly be changed .
13 Thus it is very close in time to the Tyrannicides ; and the face has very much the character of Harmodios or the Kritian boy .
14 Paul Scott 's Raj Quartet , a fictional foursome collected in 1976 and with the pendant of a fifth novel , Staying On ( 1977 ) , is a vast canvas devoted to the transfer of power in India and its sequel : too close in time to be seen , altogether clearly , as historical fiction , too distant in place to be a shared world ; though like E. M. Forster before him , Scott chose an alien sun to define the outlines and shadows of the English abroad , where their habits of mind look all the sharper , odder and more endearing against the background of an exotic land .
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