Example sentences of "up [prep] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Princess of Wales may not have been quick to learn at school — possibly because her lessons did not interest her much — but she has certainly made up for lost time since her marriage . |
| 2 | CANADA 'S 13 Engines , with their considered blend of ominous guitar and vocals and a sometimes lumbering , limbering beat , should have little trouble making up for lost time with this overdue European release of their excellent debut LP . |
| 3 | CANADA 'S 13 Engines , with their considered blend of ominous guitar and vocals and a sometimes lumbering , limbering beat , should have little trouble making up for lost time with this overdue European release of their excellent debut LP . |
| 4 | He set off again almost as soon as he had returned to Hobart to make up for lost time on an overland expedition to Launceston and George Town , 60 miles from Hobart on the North Coast of the island . |
| 5 | SKIPPER Allan Border hit his highest first-class score of the tour as Australia made up for lost time on a rain-hit day against Warwickshire at Edgbaston . |
| 6 | Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox . |
| 7 | The nub of the meeting had been a lengthy discussion on the merits or otherwise of four-day cricket , while matters decided on were the 25-point penalty for producing inferior pitches , retained with wider definition to include over-grassed pitches ; overseas players ( counties may register up to two for next season only ) ; a return to 15-yard run-ups in the Sunday League ; and the making up of lost time in Tests to a maximum one hour . |
| 8 | The nub of the meeting had been a lengthy discussion on the merits or otherwise of four-day cricket , while matters decided on were the 25-point penalty for producing inferior pitches , retained with wider definition to include over-grassed pitches ; overseas players ( counties may register up to two for next season only ) ; a return to 15-yard run-ups in the Sunday League ; and the making up of lost time in Tests to a maximum one hour . |
| 9 | I would say that if a person is locked up from that time at night , there 's circumstances , their perhaps observation for their own safety , erm any body else that can be trusted at night sanitation are not locked in , they have the facilities to go to the toilet during the night , I mean this person that 's just said must of obviously been ob observation or was locked up for a reason . |
| 10 | still had no prospects of employment and I do n't think er , er my parents had any erm particular ideas and my father who worked for erm Roads and Bridges Department was speaking to the Chief Clerk at that time , that was , er , his name was in fact and erm he was a very sympathetic character and er he said he 'd have a word with erm with somebody in the County Council and erm see if they could find me employment as a typist and erm using the argument of course that the Education Department had up to that time at the R N C erm paid the balance of the fees for my course , erm I could just mention to you that the scholarship was worth forty pounds a year fee . |
| 11 | * Radioactivity up to 30,000 times above normal levels has been found in Bogdanovka , a health resort in central Russia . |
| 12 | In a machine operating at 6000 stitches per minute , the needle thread has to accelerate to a speed close to 100 mph ( 160kph ) , stop , and accelerate backwards to the same speed , and all at a cycle rate of up to 100 times per second ! |
| 13 | The move follows a survey by FOE which purports to show that the water supply of millions of people in the area is contaminated by 12 pesticides at levels up to 16 times above the legal limit . |
| 14 | Unfortunately two weeks after her last gold injection she presented acutely complaining of lethargy , anorexia , weight loss ( 9.5 kg ) , abdominal pain , and watery diarrhoea ( up to 20 times per day ) with a small amount of blood . |
| 15 | The bottles are designed to be reused up to 20 times over a period of five years before being recycled into filling for toys , anoraks and duvets . |
| 16 | Researchers at Carlton University in Ontario interviewed 700 women up to three times during their pregnancy , focusing on their drinking and smoking habits . |
| 17 | Air Canada flies into Toronto up to 15 times per week departing from London Heathrow , Manchester and Glasgow ( Prestwick ) . |
| 18 | If the cat gets too close , ducks may peek anything up to 35 times per minute . |
| 19 | Philips Semiconductor has new input/output processors which it claims , can boost the performance of Motorola Inc 680X0 and Intel Corp iAPX-86 microprocessors by up to ten times for peripheral handling in parallel networks — it 's due next month . |
| 20 | I suspect that we will find that John Major is both pro-active and reaction , because in the next few months erm up to some time before June nineteen ninety two , there has to be a manifesto produced for the next election , and I think it 's in that you will probably see the pro-active side of John Major and his colleagues . |
| 21 | Of course , she was not normally up at this time of the morning . |
| 22 | There are many other more elaborate braids and edgings which are great fun to knit if you keep your machine set up at this time of year , as it is a good time to play with new ideas and perhaps to knit enough to edge that beautiful Chanel-type jacket you are going to knit later , but the simple knitted binding or a simple rouleau takes a lot of beating and always loos fashionable , elegantly simple and stylish . |
| 23 | What on earth are you doing waking the whole world up at this time of night ? |
| 24 | ‘ I hope we can all meet up at some time in the future , ’ says Tyler , ‘ and have a tap-dance . ’ |
| 25 | After taking a series of measurements I put a numbered ring on each bird 's leg so that if one came to grief and was picked up at some time in the future , its identity could be established . |
| 26 | The system allows information to be ‘ filed ’ on floppy discs so that stored information can be called up at any time on the computer 's visual display unit . |
| 27 | And when you do finally get to bed , you ca n't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext . |
| 28 | When WORKING disappears from the screen , the palette will have been saved to the disk , ready for you to call up at any time in the future . |
| 29 | Just heard on Radio 5 , we 're 1–0 up at half time with Rod Wallace scoring from a header . |
| 30 | To think two weeks ago they were three nil up at half time against Oldham and they 're only one nil up against Charlton and they totally dominated the game . |