Example sentences of "of [n mass] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 Thirdly the equipment and systems reliability of ‘ high-bay ’ warehouses can now achieve very high levels provided that maintenance is kept to an adequate standard ; availability of equipment for use is often in excess of 97% of the time work is available .
2 The real difficulty lies in the fact that CD-ROM can only process one type of data at a time .
3 They did not , for instance , examine how a head looks at the development of fellow-staff after the time of first appointment .
4 For instance , at Prudential Assurance , the taxable disturbance allowance of £1724 is paid in two equal instalments ; employees receive one payment of £862 at the time of their transfer and the balance one year later .
5 The MCC employed eleven members of staff at the time of investigation and ran a development corporation which was involved in renovating and constructing housing as well as providing local jobs .
6 Malek , 54 , who had held several senior government and Republican Party posts and was noted for his managerial skills , had been considered a strong candidate for White House Chief of Staff at the time of Sununu 's appointment .
7 The army retained the key post of Interior and Defence , filled by Gen. ( retd ) Carl Michel Nicolas , Army Chief of Staff at the time of the Army-inspired killings during the election of November 1987 [ see pp. 35697-98 ] .
8 With 43 years ’ service Barbara was our longest serving member of staff at the time .
9 During the period of the Call-slip analysis and book condition survey — that is , between 12 and 24 January 1981 — the second copy of each call-slip submitted to the Issue Counter was stamped by a member of staff with the time and date of its submission , and when it ultimately arrived in the Reading Room , accompanied by the book to which it related , the time and date of its arrival was recorded on it by one of two fieldwork students from the College of Librarianship Wales who assisted in the implementation of the Survey .
10 And lastly , but by no means least , are the tsunami effects , vast tidal waves usually generated by undersea earthquakes : those tsunami have been responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people at a time when they struck low-lying coastal areas . ’
11 I mean I can see a typical lot of people at a time
12 Lyell 's second volume raised the question of the geographical distribution of species at a time when Darwin was well placed to study this phenomenon .
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