Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers often report that they completely switch off at the beginning of the holidays , or sleep for abnormally long periods of time for several days . |
| 2 | Birds can also detect much smaller intervals of time than us . |
| 3 | Thirdly , rule-specification is a means of ‘ job enlargement ’ , a process of elaborating housework tasks so they take up endlessly increasing amounts of time . |
| 4 | in order to get a better estimate of how accurately the clock works we need to be able to study it for much longer periods of time . |
| 5 | In prolonged breeding , on the other hand , mating takes place over much longer periods of time , or indeed throughout the year . |
| 6 | To avoid excessive changes in the sample cross section , elongations are limited to a few per cent and are followed over approximately three decades of time . |
| 7 | If you have approximately ten minutes of work left to reach a good stopping point and , if you have approximately ten minutes of time available ( e.g. before schoolchildren arrive home ) THEN either a few , some or all stitches will immediately fall off the machine and ruin all your plans to finish on time . |
| 8 | By doing this he will become able to maintain control for gradually increasing amounts of time . |
| 9 | But surely the proposition that the unemployment rate could be held below its natural value for fairly long periods of time runs counter to the neoclassical model of labour market behaviour ? |
| 10 | In fact , the dining room should bc a particularly interesting room to decorate , because , like the bathroom , it is generally used for comparatively short periods of time , and then mostly at night . |
| 11 | Metals such as zinc , copper , cadmium and lead are believed to stay in the soil for " almost geological lengths of time " . |
| 12 | However , there are at least three arrows of time that do distinguish the past from the future . |
| 13 | It is interesting to note however that Nepalese men and women spend almost equal amounts of time involved in their own activities and with their family . |
| 14 | The majority had therefore experienced secure employment for relatively long periods of time . |
| 15 | In other words , the practice of placing infants to sleep on their own , for relatively long periods of time , which is widespread in Western industrialised societies , is not only historically and culturally unique but also evolutionarily recent . |
| 16 | Programs typically reference the same limited areas of storage for relatively long periods of time . |
| 17 | Aerobic exercise is characterized by the body using large muscle groups in rhythmical continuous activity for relatively long periods of time . |
| 18 | Mood in such circumstances , however , generally refers to a state such as depression typically continuing for relatively long periods of time , often hours or days . |
| 19 | Above all it is important for the staff planning groups to decide what ‘ interdisciplinary ’ work or topic work will actually mean for the learner in practice , and choice will depend in part on the school 's view of the ‘ whole picture ’ spread across quite long periods of time , with the teachers planning carefully how they intend to create a balanced curriculum over weeks and months . |
| 20 | For quite long periods of time it went away and he forgot it . |
| 21 | There is little systematic evidence of how people in other cultures get on with one another , but it should be noted that within a tribal community there may be such strong libidinal ties among the members that the interrelations among them appear peaceful , and may be so for quite long periods of time . |
| 22 | You 'll spend quite long periods of time working entirely alone , but study need not be an unsociable , let alone an anti-social , process . |
| 23 | So even when prices do fall very low for quite long periods of time , alright , farmers will still maintain production , even they 're making losses . |
| 24 | We 've also remembered again the sometimes potent hurts of time gone by , realising that the passing years do not always lay to rest the stretched emotional reactions which those experiences once forced upon us . |
| 25 | Because like many of his near contemporaries , such , for instance , as Henry James and Virginia Woolf certainly , Proust was concerned to expand certain small but emotionally important blocks of time , to expand them so as to convey an experience fully and in detail , as one would experience it living through it . |
| 26 | The ideal way to evaluate some form of special teaching help is to compare the changes which occur over two periods of time , only one of which is associated with intervention , such as a special placement or a particular kind of therapy ( see Figure 6.1 ) . |
| 27 | Cotswold Wildlife Park aspires to show animals to people — so that they can come to understand and respect all forms of wildlife ; to understand what is special about each species , and how the various species have evolved and adapted over very long periods of time , adjusting and changing to survive in habitats from many parts of the earth . |
| 28 | Therefore , it is dangerous to try to explain present-day landforms merely by the operation of present processes of erosion acting over very long periods of time . |
| 29 | In my view , accuracy can only be assured over very short periods of time , after which the refereeing panel must receive a proper rest . |
| 30 | Their specialism is in lending and borrowing for very short periods of time from one day to up to about three months . |