Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 I was aware that building societies are in the habit of launching new products from time to time , primarily to attract new investors .
2 So if you were serious about promoting social housing over time what you would be working for is not a stop go economy in housing , not a stopped go regime in terms of halas housing finance , but a stable , a long term commitment towards er er a financial regime that will actually bring that housing through and that is something you have not done .
3 Beveridge had some contact with the Section , but it was not the Keynesians who changed Beveridge 's mind about the practicability of providing full employment in time of peace .
4 But researchers continued to show people spending large amounts of time at it .
5 Spending large amounts of time on ‘ C ’ items at the expense of ‘ A ’ items is unproductive .
6 The perfectionist is a person who has problems setting priorities , and often ends up spending equal amounts of time and effort on tasks irrespective of their importance .
7 Teachers are finding that many children are spending substantial amounts of time playing the games to the detriment of their school work .
8 Maureen answered straight away , and listened eagerly , giving excited squeaks from time to time as her niece brought her up to date on everything that had happened .
9 We also noted a tendency for some teachers to create time to monitor children 's learning in prioritized areas like mathematics and language by treating other areas as time fillers .
10 The second part will examine the role of innovation in the success or failure of various industries using econometric techniques on time series data .
11 The actual meaning of the bare infinitive , on the other hand , can be characterized as a form of non-subsequence involving complete coincidence in time between two events — the experiencing and the event experienced .
12 William Thwaite was paid for repairing underground shoes from time to time .
13 ‘ That 's why the NFL World Partnership has been created and why we are putting considerable amounts of time , effort and financing into its development . ’
14 In addition the church might consider placing paid advertisements from time to time , highlighting forthcoming events which could be made especially attractive to the outsider .
15 As it so happened , emerging civilisation created communities in various parts of the world , spaced at intervals covering long periods of time , each community being unaware of the others , and each developing some form of religion and worship .
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