Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] passage [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were oblivious of the passage of time . |
| 2 | She soon became absorbed , oblivious to the passage of time , and was startled when she was politely informed that the doors would shortly be closed for the midday break . |
| 3 | Few early peoples , apart from the Egyptians , have left to posterity so much workmanship quite undisturbed through the passage of time . |
| 4 | The evolution of integrated circuit technology has been such that you 've been progressively able to put more and more transistors down on a single integrated circuit , and so a microprocessor has got more and more powerful with the passage of time . |
| 5 | Mr Peter Goldsmith , QC , for Mr Foecke , submitted that it was now too late for Mr Foecke to have a fair trial due to the passage of time . |
| 6 | There are two points here : the first is that no matter how substantial is one 's background in user education , advice can become steadily less relevant with the passage of time unless a determined effort is made to keep contact with the users to be instructed ; ie to continue to instruct the user personally . |
| 7 | This seems to indicate a deep , free , and intensive time of prayer , when the Spirit takes over and controls and leads the prayers , and one can go on praying for several hours without being aware of the passage of time . |
| 8 | A year later the Soviet Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs , Ivor Rogachev , called for movement towards this objective through ‘ bilateral accords , sub-regional accords and finally , in the last analysis , if this becomes realistic with the passage of time , through the conclusion of a regional agreement on issues of security ’ . |