Example sentences of "a [noun] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Curiously , in their paper suggesting the constancy of the solar diameter , Parkinson and his colleagues did mention that the data from transits of Mercury show hints of a periodic variation in the Sun 's size with a cycle time of about 80 years . |
| 32 | It will typically take several hours for the car to go down the line , hundreds of workers will be directly involved in fitting the various bits and pieces , and each will have a cycle time of perhaps 60 seconds to do their allotted task . |
| 33 | If they were fed in manually , this would imply exactly the kind of task objected to by the unions — namely , a task paced by the automatic welder and with a cycle time of less than a minute . |
| 34 | They argue that isotopic variations in lavas produced over the past 100 million years by the Kerguelen mantle plume require a cycle time of much less than a thousand million years . |
| 35 | A 0–60mph time of 9.0secs is slightly disappointing but 0–100mph in 22.0secs gives a better clue to its ground-covering potential . |
| 36 | Company official believe a 140mph top speed , coupled with a 0–60mph time of less than 7.0secs and achievable all-round fuel consumption in the 22–28mpg range , would be acceptable to the market of 1996 . |
| 37 | In the XJS coupe , the result is a 10pc increase in power to 308bhp at 5350rpm , a 0–60mph time of 6.6 seconds rather than 7.8 with the old 5.3 and a spectacular top speed of 160mph with barely any loss in economy . |
| 38 | Dakletons have a crew of seven or eight and a patrol time of six hours . |
| 39 | Is it true that you really did have a nightmare time in your early life , with all the operations on your foot ? |
| 40 | The images were taken in the coronal plane with a repetition time of 5 seconds and represent fasting ( A ) and fed ( B ) activity . |
| 41 | Tokamaks have achieved a confinement time within a factor of four of the Lawson criterion and ion temperatures of 80 million degrees , compared to a minimum ideal ignition temperature of 50 million degrees . |
| 42 | The Transport Minister , Mr Robert Atkins , said : ‘ Christmas is a family time of year , but for some families Christmas is going to be unbearable , because a loved one has been killed by a drink-driver . ’ |
| 43 | Christmas is traditionally a family time for the local population , but all the hotels put on special Christmas dinners and parties . |
| 44 | It 's always a happy time with young children in the house and everybody gathers around , it 's a family time for us and we enjoy it . |
| 45 | For example if the records took up half a track on a device with a rotation time of 25 ms ( 2400 rpm ) then the data transfer would take about 12.5 ms . |
| 46 | A turn-round time of 24 hours for 90 per cent of prescriptions is guaranteed and an extended range of frames offers a greater choice of fashionable designs and colours . |
| 47 | He photographed the room in which the poet died ( in 1972 ) using an exposure time of many hours and making a negative print . |
| 48 | Swindon Town will be at home to Manchester City or Reading in the Fourth Round if they can beat Queens Park Rangers in the Third Round … that tie kicks off in an hours time in London … |
| 49 | I fixed an interview time with Sylvia on my way out . |
| 50 | You will save time later by adjusting VR1 sliding contact clockwise in very small steps so that an operating time for one minute ( within one second or two ) is obtained . |
| 51 | So if the chart specifies an outbound time of , say , 2 minutes , this must be converted into a distance and flown at your estimated groundspeed . |
| 52 | Mr Foster said he thought that the Durham Service 's rate of 97 per cent of call-outs having an arrival time of less than 19 minutes was ‘ creditable ’ . |