Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many pupils may object that they find this kind of culture to be alien and puzzling at first since this is a non-exam course there is opportunity for pupils to mark time without any serious results but to achieve personal development gradually or late on in the course at an individual pace . |
| 2 | In general terms , the objectives will be to evaluate the adequacy of systems to control time , cost and quality |
| 3 | The questions on clock time showed that a high proportion of pupils understand time expressed in terms of 12 and 24 hour clocks . |
| 4 | The following examples from China 's Panda Reserves illustrate ( a ) the use of adverbials to indicate time reference where necessary and feasible in a Chinese translation , and ( b ) the omission of time reference altogether where it can be inferred from the context or where the information is not felt to be important . |
| 5 | Non-scientists — and anti-scientists — are often troubled by such apparent unwillingness among scientists to spend time investigating seemingly paradoxical results which do n't fit into current experimental paradigms — corn-circles , ESP , UFOs , aromatherapy or whatever . |
| 6 | But felling trees , chopping them up and hauling them back to the laboratory for tests costs time and cash . |