Example sentences of "that [art] [adj] [noun] time " in BNC.

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1 Whereas current strategy assumed that the USA would have as little as two weeks to reinforce NATO troops in the event of the Soviet Union mobilizing for an invasion of Europe , the new plan suggested that the future response time could be as long as two years , and that this would allow the USA ample time to bring reserve divisions up to full strength .
2 Experimental and simulation work carried out by Montgomery and his co-workers has shown that the sequential retrieval time for records increases as more of the file is held in overflow .
3 The skill in planning consists in the decisions taken in completing the two columns so that the overall network time is minimized without contradicting the logical sequence in which the jobs must be done .
4 The skill in planning consists in the decisions taken in completing the two columns so that the overall network time is minimized without contradicting the logical sequence in which the jobs must be done .
5 Instead an exponential distribution is used , so that the actual arrival time of the next vehicle is x seconds after the previous vehicle , where x is a random variable sampled from an exponential distribution with a mean of r seconds .
6 Further analysis of the relationship between pause length and syntactic complexity suggested that the additional reading time was not caused by greater syntactic complexity .
7 However , although the level of demand for books fluctuated to a quite considerable extent throughout the day , Figures 10 and 11 also show that the mean delivery time for straightforward deliveries to readers of ‘ ordinary ’ items from the Main Building remained reasonably constant ( never rising above 17 minutes on weekdays , or 19 minutes on Saturdays ) , and that those variations which did occur bore no direct relationship to the level of demand , for some of the better mean delivery times were achieved a periods of high demand , and vice versa .
8 Nevertheless , it was noted that the mean delivery time for all early and rare items supplied was , at forty minutes , more than three times the overall average of twelve minutes recorded for ‘ ordinary ’ books .
9 The Leuchars squadron is to be replaced by Sea Kings operating from RAF Bulmer and RAF Lossiemouth , in spite of claims that the longer response times for fishermen in trouble in the Forth and climbers in peril north of the line of the Tay could mean lives being lost .
10 Both orbits are described as sun-synchronous because the relationship between the positions of the satellite , the sun and the Earth is maintained as the satellite passes over the illuminated side of the Earth , so that the local sun time on the ground immediately below the satellite is approximately the same , around 9.30 am .
11 Refusing both the taxpayer 's applications , Mr Justice Harman said in respect of the first that the 30 day time limit prescribed by s 56(4) , TMA 1970 was mandatory .
12 He claims that the last shelf time period recorded on a book is highly predictive of future use , and gives a description of a simple method by which such information is examined and analysed to provide a basis for the weeding of stock .
13 It is true that a good marathon time shows that you have both fitness and endurance , but because of the effort you have made , you will not be able to exploit those gains for some time .
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