Example sentences of "of the time [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | His speeches in parliament were separately published , as were those of no other Unionist of the time except Balfour , and he received the signal honour of a Privy Councillorship on the recommendation of the Liberal Prime Minister in June 1911 . |
2 | Our chosen passages speak of the time between fulfilment and fulfilment . |
3 | Only three of the whole group had worked since redundancy , and only one of those did so for more than half of the time between redundancy and interview . |
4 | The fears of the British textile industry preoccupied British officials for much of the time between 1948 and 1950 . |
5 | Thoughts of finding a job are out , unless on a flexible part-time basis , and most of the time between races is spent testing , hanging around garages and seeking out potential sponsors . |
6 | Much of the time between Gould 's arrival in Adelaide and the departure of Sturt 's expedition was spent with Sturt and his family , or Governor Gawler , whose wife was a friend of Lear 's , and in exploring the countryside around the city . |
7 | And just finally this , er P C can you give us an estimate of the time between going into that flat and being called away when it was secure . |
8 | This period unfortunately does not cover the whole of the time during which the Lift was in operation . |
9 | Most of the time during the day she was all right . |
10 | As a consequence , the complexity of some teachers ' classroom organization appeared to greatly increase the proportion of the time during which children were distracted , awaiting attention or working only sporadically . |
11 | Speakers looked at listeners 50 per cent of the time while speaking fluently compared with only 20 per cent of the time during hesitant speech . |
12 | Now , now you were saying before your father er was unemployed quite a lot of the time during your childhood erm did he actually get any Unemployment Benefit while he was on the dole ? |
13 | dribble urine most of the time without realising it ; |
14 | Given the common Caribbean background of family members it is noteworthy that Creole is not used as a common medium of interaction either within or between generations , at least when British-born speakers are present ; however , some speakers may use a mesolectal Creole most of the time without it apparently having or acquiring any special symbolic value . |
15 | All of them have come out of the time over the nineteen ninety three have all been employed by the company . |
16 | But even in democratic societies knowledge of the past changes as historical scholarship develops and it is often found that the official record of the time under study contains errors or even deliberate falsification . |
17 | For most of the time since 1986 , many parent companies would have done better putting their money safely in a bank deposit than risking it in the securities markets . |
18 | A fine attacking batsman , he had been in the England team for much of the time since making his debut in 1982 , but after his four centuries in the summer of 1984 he had disappointed too often and his average scarcely reflected his ability — in 57 Tests he had made just over 3,000 runs at 34 before the tour began . |
19 | Although it can not be entirely free of period distortions , it shows more modest fluctuations in fertility than the TFR and in particular gives an estimate of fertility of over 2 children for most of the time since 1972 , not the 1.8 or so given by the IFR . |
20 | For most of the time since 1965 it has been contained in a separate channel isolated from the rest of criminal justice policy-making . |
21 | A mother in her early twenties in Coventry , who has been unemployed for most of the time since leaving school , said : |
22 | Unlike the UK , the Netherlands has for most of the time since 1950 pursued a consistent policy of reducing and limiting the prison population ; overall it is difficult to argue that this reduction in punishment has adversely affected the Netherlands ' crime rate , which has risen in a roughly similar manner to that in the UK over this period ( Downes , 1999 : 33–41 , 194–5 ; NACRO , 1991a : 93 ) . |
23 | No doubt they see themselves as devoted middlewomen , bringing the truly important work of the time to the avid masses , but all they are really doing , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is fucking up the lives of both sets of people . |
24 | Successful , Booker Prize-winning women novelists such as Anita Brookner or Penelope Lively , for example , did not reflect the feminist awareness of the time to any marked extent . |
25 | It could appropriate 100 per cent of the time to its own business and utterly stifle debate by the opposition . |
26 | In fact one of the great things about this walk is that it keeps for most of the time to the shoulder of the fells so that they fall away steep sided below you giving you clear views out and down . |
27 | These are the unthinking reactions we all have most of the time to various common facts . |
28 | The treatment of the short-sleeved belted chit on of light material is assimilated in the taste of the time to that of the heavy chit on ( figs. 73–4 , 76 ) , though the structure of the garment is quite different . |
29 | And one is encouraging them all of the time to be able to look at their own work as a group , as well as an individual , and make assessments of it themselves . |
30 | McCabe and Sutcliffe ( 1978 ) have shown how only 6 per cent of the time of patrol police is occupied with incidents defined as ‘ criminal ’ . |