Example sentences of "time it [vb -s] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That light travels at the speed of five times around the earth in the time it takes to say rice pudding is indeed an amazing matter . |
| 2 | Don Eigler , one of the IBM researchers , said last week that he was sceptical about IBM 's technique being useful for data storage because of the length of time it takes to move atoms . |
| 3 | Attention must be paid not only to stool frequency and stool consistency , but to painful bowel movements , the degree of straining , and the time it takes to evacuate stools in younr children . |
| 4 | Whereas the time taken for a computer working randomly but with the constraint of cumulative selection to perform the same task is of the same order as humans ordinarily can understand , between 11 seconds and the time it takes to have lunch . |
| 5 | Its Military Committee , which the victors of 1945 had once hoped ( for little more than the time it takes to shake hands ) would in future enforce peace at the head of a world army , remained a jobless phantom . |
| 6 | This has enormous implications for the cost and length of time it takes to expedite cases , both areas over which the Institute has been severely criticised and which it is keen to see reduced . |
| 7 | However , excitement can quickly turn to anxiety when the time it takes to conceive takes longer than originally expected . |
| 8 | The difference between a propeller plane and a jet is the time it takes to apply power . |
| 9 | The result is a flatter seven-layer management structure , the closure of seven factories , a tightening of the time it takes to bring products to market , and a concentration of effort on selling to industry sectors in which the company has established expertise . |
| 10 | Other features of change management were not recognized , including the time it takes to embed changes in institutions ( Georgiades and Phillimore , 1975 ) , negotiating with institutions ( Easen 1985 ; Hughes et al , 1985 ) , approaching individuals ( Easen , 1985 and 1987 ) and challenging avoidance ( Bolam , 1975 ; Janis , 1977 ; Phillips and Fraser , 1982 ) . |
| 11 | Many of these are designed to speed up your computer , especially the time it takes to get graphics up on-screen . |
| 12 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 13 | Given the margins on most computer deals and the time it takes to organise shipment , this will bankrupt most companies . |
| 14 | Companies House , for example , which was established as an agency in October 1988 , had by April 1991 reduced from 25 days to 12 days the time it takes to process documents , against a target reduction to 18 days . |
| 15 | If every time a directive is mistaken , i.e. every time it fails to reflect reason correctly , it were open to challenge as mistaken , the advantage gained by accepting the authority as a more reliable and successful guide to right reason would disappear . |
| 16 | My hon. Friends have made the good point that the Labour party is posing as the party of carbon dioxide reductions while at the same time it wants to force electricity generators to burn more coal , phase out the nuclear industry and , in its phrase , to ’ deter ’ the generators from using gas for power generation . |