Example sentences of "of [noun] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff were noted to spend a minimum of interaction time with residents , sometimes as little as three minutes in a six hour period . |
| 2 | It can be difficult to justify spending a large large amount of course time on design , but asking colleagues in design institutions to recommend or teach a useful ( and usable ) subset of document design to occupy just a few hours is not likely to elicit an encouraging response . |
| 3 | Table 6 and Table 7 show comparisons of response time between sizes of memory sets for Yes and No responses respectively . |
| 4 | The suggestion that it might occupy 10 per cent of curriculum time in order to do justice to it and its importance in general , and for all other subjects in particular , is normally greeted with frank incredulity . |
| 5 | The uniform hour of sixty minutes soon tended to replace the day as the fundamental unit of labour time in the textile industry . |
| 6 | At the beginning of the New Year — or perhaps in a couple of months time at the beginning of the new financial year — there is often a need to set up a spreadsheet that shows a time series . |
| 7 | A lot of boat time for a couple of dives , and you 've also got overnight accommodation in Cairns to pay for . |
| 8 | All subject groups had DGR for some of the study period ; however , both groups of patients had reflux for a significantly longer proportion of study time than the normal controls ( 12% of study time for normal controls , 67% for gastric ulcer patients , and 91% for gastric surgery patients ; p<0.001 gastric ulcer v controls and p<0.0002 gastric surgery v controls ; Fig 1 ) . |
| 9 | The mean duration of DGR ( sodium >50 mmol/l ) was 79% of study time for patients with a positive result and 87% for patients with a negative result . |
| 10 | This is at the comparatively small cost of three hours therapy time per individual if there are two therapists running a group ( one and a half hours of therapy time per individual if there is one therapist ) . |
| 11 | As a run up to this , the London-based group devoted a good deal of management time to restructuring the US operations , mainly in the sphere of sales and customer support . |
| 12 | Erm but I must say that I know the view of erm both Ray and Cynthia is that they have a lack of management time in relation to the other two divisions , because they do n't have the assistant divisional manager post . |
| 13 | Complaints focus particularly on the setup costs of reporting systems and more general costs of management time in meeting regulatory requirements . |
| 14 | The Prime Minister takes the last 15 minutes of question time on Tuesdays and Thursdays . |
| 15 | Our experience has shown that on average obtaining the syntactic information requires about 20 seconds of run time per word ( including garbage collection ) . |
| 16 | Watching the planes dog-fighting overhead , there was plenty of leisure time for day-dreaming about wives and families . |
| 17 | The railways were necessary to the rise of the North-Western holiday industry , but they did little actively to promote it , and the real cause of its growth , and of the pattern of its development , lay in rising living standards and changing attitudes to the use of leisure time among the potential visiting public . |
| 18 | What if there 's like a book published in a , in about a couple of years time about the children 's language |
| 19 | This modified technique , involving the measuring of reaction time to clicks , was used by Holmes and Forster ( 1970 ) who showed that subjects were able to detect the presence of a click more rapidly when it occurred at a major constituent boundary than when it did not . |
| 20 | Table 1 shows the means and standard deviations of reaction time for Yed and No answers at each level of processing . |
| 21 | Morrissey is needed , not as an ombudsman , or a figure of the eighties , but as a horrified figure against the eighties , who has turned his back on the march of pop time as the last keeper of the sanctuary of self-pity , apartness , exile ’ ( David Stubbs ) . |
| 22 | Thanks to the new Corby ITI Centre being able to offer 3 days worth of court time at extremely short notice , a second event for the boys was stated resulting in all but 3 players being accommodated . |
| 23 | In addition , there are all the practical difficulties as to the accessibility of Parliamentary material , the cost of researching it and the use of court time in analysing it , which are good reasons for maintaining the rule . |
| 24 | However , Echo is promising to cut ports to a matter of days , or at worst weeks , lopping off what could be years of development time in moving from one architecture to another . |
| 25 | With Clinton carrying the campaign into the hitherto safe Republican areas , Perot eschewed campaigning in person in favour of buying huge amounts of television time for lengthy " info-commercials " designed to inform the electorate about his analysis of the country 's economic difficulties . |
| 26 | , I hope you 're not , well several interesting things have come out of there , it just shows the sort of thing about working under pressure , and the limited amount of time , erm , the limited amount of planning time for the managers certainly . |
| 27 | The most vulnerable areas of working time for me are those of contact with pupils and curriculum development . |
| 28 | Sickness absence overall fell sharply last year by almost 0.5 per cent of working time from the 1991 figure of 4.0 per cent . |
| 29 | Just gone , we 're obviously working to Italian time in this Italian job because we 've had really five minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half and I 'm a bit baffled as to why we had it . |
| 30 | A few minutes of air time on a small radio station ? |