Example sentences of "in [noun] to [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to the time lag while the act was being understood , it can take up to four years for an insolvency practitioner to lodge a report and then for a disqualification order to be made . |
| 2 | Although taxation was a common reason for convening representative members , it was by no means the only reason for doing so ; nor was it , in proportion to the time spent on it , the principal or most demanding business of parliament . |
| 3 | The general point here and I want to make is that er , these are n't officers ' promises these are the members ' promises and er , erm , we 've got to be careful that er when they 're all drawn together that we are n't making a hostage fortune , erm and so that I think it is very important members take aboard er what is suggested and test them themselves to see that they are realistic , I would also say that er as these promises are being considered by the various committees and I note a considerable variation in standards which will need to be addressed when the promises er , have come back to the Policy Committee , these are particularly in reference to the time required to respond to er , erm complaints etc , it 's no use having the Highways Committee wanting two weeks and incidentally on promise number two erm I think that er any up , somebody else 's point er straight forward wants to be deleted , erm the highways require two weeks to respond er , erm hearts and libraries want a , you know half a day , er and we 've got to get these er erm more or less synchronized I think , and whilst I 'm thinking Chairman on the last page er of the er favourite for , for first for agent authorities , but it does n't give any indication about the contact point and as most of our population live in the agent authorities that the er it needs to be expanded to give the contacts er points for the members of the public . |
| 4 | These migrants were pushed from station pillar to post from the moment they left their homes in Europe to the time they settled in the western United States . |
| 5 | What has not yet changed is the time invested in looking after manpower utilisation in relation to the time invested in looking after machinery utilisation . |
| 6 | I , I think chairman in relation to the time off , I think erm I think that 's , that 's one thing we need to as area organizers , to actually try and er clarify |
| 7 | We do not just mean convenience foods , but the convenience of eating a meal in relation to the time allowed , and the situation . |
| 8 | As Jespersen points out , " here we have a reference to an event that is past , or at any rate contemporaneous , in relation to the time of the main verb " , that is , just the opposite sequence of events to that which our hypothesis should have led us to expect . |