Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not an exact ten minutes , it 's not an exact six hundred seconds , but what it is , is round about that period of time , after about ten minutes , what you do is you switch off and you go and do something else . |
| 2 | She hoped a fortnight was enough : she knew it was supposed to take about that length of time to get over chicken-pox , but perhaps it was more serious for adults . |
| 3 | The hierarchy of cycles for each division of time led the Maya to devote more attention to the past than to the future . |
| 4 | Here separate layers are chosen for each interval of time or frame throughout the complete operating cycle . |
| 5 | All purchasers of Time-Ownership at Slaley will receive an allocation of 10 free rounds of golf and 10 rounds at 50% discounted rate for each week of time purchased ! … |
| 6 | The manager produces a whole hospital work-level profile for specific periods of time for a 7-day period . |
| 7 | They should also indicate potential problems , which , if rectified at a sufficiently early stage , will avoid the need for unnecessary expenditure of time and money in seeking to correct the position . |
| 8 | During that period of time , various doors were opening and closing . |
| 9 | Yeah but if they 're if they 're , if they 're at work during that period of time |
| 10 | These animals possess the remarkable ability to withstand intense heat and drought for prolonged periods of time . |
| 11 | It must have cost a lot of money to go for that amount of time ? |
| 12 | The thing with th , with getting there at two for the gate right , because you can go in and get seats , for that amount of time you want a seat . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't pay John any bigger compliment — to be underground for that length of time . |
| 14 | Thus , if the total award is large enough ( say , reflecting three years ' employment and loss of salary and contract benefits for that length of time ) , an ex gratia payment will not reduce your former employer 's legal liability towards you at all . |
| 15 | She had clung to the hope even for that length of time , but it had never happened . |
| 16 | His ability to A function as a surveillance office and B to function as a armed officer after being maybe in the er in a vehicle for that length of time er is both dangerous to the public and dangerous to him . |
| 17 | ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It 's hard to stand up for that length of time , ’ said Couples , who had two double-bogeys in his 71 . |
| 19 | Will you have enough to do down there for that length of time Christine ? |
| 20 | Will you have enough to do for that length of time . |
| 21 | Well it 's not because , because I object to the phone being taken out of commission for that length of time |
| 22 | I think , then what on earth does he want to be on the phone for that length of time for . |
| 23 | You get somebody who is very outrageous on stage but who is maybe very shy off stage , and I think being on stage in front of an audience enables you to step outside of your own body and be somebody else totally different for that period of time . |
| 24 | For example Bergmann et al , 1978 found that 38 per cent of a sample of 83 patients with organic mental disorder referred to a day hospital assessment unit lived alone ; and the authors concluded , after following up the sample for 12 months , that those who lived alone were least likely to be maintained at home for that period of time even with substantial support from social services , and recommended that resources should be concentrated on those who lived with their families . |
| 25 | Okay , fair enough , it was turned over on appeal eventually erm but erm it was a bit of a miscarriage of justice being kept in prison for that period of time until it was overturned pleaded guilty to another murder but that 's by the by . |
| 26 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 27 | Some countries operate five-year plans but there is nothing sacred about this length of time . |
| 28 | Studying the body clock for extended periods of time |
| 29 | There are occasional reports in the medical journals of people not sleeping for extended periods of time when suffering from illnesses interfering with brain function . |
| 30 | If there was not a ‘ ceiling ’ to potency level then serial dilution would not be needed to make a remedy , one could simply shake any dilution for different lengths of time as in the example give above . |