Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was this guideline followed : 1 Hardly any of the time ? 2 Some of the time ? 3 Most of the time ? 4 All of the time ? |
| 2 | But all those have come out in eighteen forty three at the time of the disruption . |
| 3 | The present texts indicate that the 70 souls of Joseph 's day had risen to two or three million at the time of the Exodus ( Numbers 1 ) and to at least five million in the time of David ( 2 Samuel 24:9 ; 1 Chronicles 21:5 ) . |
| 4 | Was this guideline followed : 1 Hardly any of the time ? 2 Some of the time ? 3 Most of the time ? 4 All of the time ? |
| 5 | C can we s sorry to keep coming back to this one but I want to leave the A sixty one for the time being . |
| 6 | Was this guideline followed : 1 Hardly any of the time ? 2 Some of the time ? 3 Most of the time ? 4 All of the time ? |
| 7 | Can can we stick just with the A fifty nine for the time being ? |
| 8 | If a message can be compressed one hundred times , it can be transmitted in one hundredth of the time , or transmitted at the same speed through a channel with one hundredth of the band width , and it can be stored in one hundredth of the volume of the original . |
| 9 | This is one sixth of the time . |
| 10 | Now we want this job in one sixth of the time . |
| 11 | One sixth of the time . |
| 12 | You do , in fact , dream , for up to one fifth of the time you 're asleep . |
| 13 | For instance , a study of the dies used for the bronze coinage of Antoninus Pius ( AD 138–61 ) circulating in Britain has suggested that the total stock of bronze coinage in circulation was of the general magnitude of about ten million sestertii ; as the population of the province was about five million at the time , we can conclude from the low figure of two sestertii per capita that most of the population can not have used coinage on anything like the scale required in a fully monetised society ( see also p. 51 ) . |
| 14 | The present texts indicate that the 70 souls of Joseph 's day had risen to two or three million at the time of the Exodus ( Numbers 1 ) and to at least five million in the time of David ( 2 Samuel 24:9 ; 1 Chronicles 21:5 ) . |
| 15 | Unemployment has risen by nearly 1 million in the time that the hon. Gentleman has been Chancellor and Prime Minister , but still he refuses to do anything useful to stop that remorseless rise . |
| 16 | If I go ten times as fast , I get there in one tenth of the time . |
| 17 | A good computer system will reduce the processing of applicants to about one tenth of the time required under a manual system . |
| 18 | In many companies there would undoubtedly be scope for reducing staff , or at any rate switching resources to more productive tasks , bearing in mind that the system reduces recruitment administration to one tenth of the time required under a manual system . |
| 19 | The rules say that any beam-line must be available for general use at least one third of the time . |
| 20 | As the population of the mainland colonies rose to 2.25 million by the time of the revolution of 1776 , it suffered no decline in per capita income . |
| 21 | We want it done two twelfths of the time . |
| 22 | That 's how many gangs erm that 's two twelfths of the time , so it 's one sixth . |
| 23 | He celebrated by taking a wicket with his sixth ball and two more by the time he had bowled twenty ; when Hendrick got Lloyd , West Indies were 26 for 4 . |