Example sentences of "the [adj] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the erm because of the erm of the total times involved , inevitably the stage two's are going to be , it 's it 's going to be in the second year that you 're going to see reasonable output from them , not in first year . |
| 2 | The total time lost by system users as a result of errors or the need to correct errors should not exceed twelve and a half hours taken over a three month rolling average ( i.e. 98% accuracy of processing ) . |
| 3 | The total time taken was judged by interviewees to be between 40 and 60 minutes at review . |
| 4 | This will mean that an additional revolution is lost , so the total time incurred per overflow record will exceed one revolution on average . |
| 5 | Thus even here we may want to reduce the total time required to record the spectrum . |
| 6 | If processing time is negligible there will be an additional half a revolution to return to the next prime track record , and the total time to locate and process the overflow record will be precisely one revolution . |
| 7 | What matters most is the total time spent running , not the distance covered . |
| 8 | In 70–80 per cent of all streets in the town , the amount of time spent by the car driver is under 30 per cent of that of the total time spent by all other people on the street . |
| 9 | It was held that when time for delivery is of the essence of a contract for the sale of goods ( that is , a condition ) and after the stipulated time has elapsed the buyer waives his right to cancel by pressing for delivery , converting the term into a warranty , he may later give notice setting a reasonable deadline , once again making the time for delivery a condition of the contract . |
| 10 | Romantic love gives us a glimmer of something that we remember during the sticky times , and it 's only when the sticky times begin that real love starts to take over . |
| 11 | Instead of going upstairs all the bloody time to look . |
| 12 | The fact remains , however , that there was a certain defensive quality in many Nonconformist discussions on their new buildings ; the Editor of the Baptist Times insisted in 1902 that ‘ today , under changed conditions , we are false to no principle and to no tradition in making our Sanctuaries beautiful as well as useful ’ . |
| 13 | In the meantime , he eventually sold the Company as its peak in 1987 , he had made another small fortune , and with some 30 aeroplanes and 80 pilots on the books he felt it was the right time to let it go . |
| 14 | They had found a witness who confirmed that one of their prime suspects had left the party at the right time to murder Nicola . |
| 15 | Perhaps now was the right time to ask Rohmer just what the hell he really was , just what the hell was really going on … ? |
| 16 | This method of deciding the right time to sow was recommended by Fitzherbert , the sixteenth-century writer on agriculture : ‘ go upon the land that is plowed and if it synge or crye or make any noise under they fete , then it is to wet to sowe . |
| 17 | Getting your supporters enthusiastic at the right time requires strategy and planning and that is a political weakness in the UK . |
| 18 | ‘ You came at the right time to save me and Hawkins . ’ |
| 19 | Courageous decisions are nevertheless sometimes called for , so is this the right time to appoint a computer industry outsider to te top job at IBM ? |
| 20 | IS THIS the right time to invest in the property market ? |
| 21 | Then he landed in Oxford just at the right time to go out to the factory and it was open , and you had to get your car as soon as you could and see that everything was all right . |
| 22 | Catherine agreed that now was the right time to go there . |
| 23 | He repeated , together with the Chairman of the Social Work Committee , Mrs Mairhi Trickett , that seven o'clock in the morning was the right time to take the children , as it was a time when families would all be together . |
| 24 | It will probably not go unnoticed if you appear well organized at this stage , and it will certainly help you to appear at the right place and at the right time looking calm and unruffled . |
| 25 | He seemed to have decided that now was the right time to clean the Great Hall floor and was poking the mop head in among the boys ’ legs , muttering to himself . |
| 26 | ‘ We were very lucky when we first came over , ’ acknowledges Niall with a hearty slug of purified H 2 O. ‘ We did n't know what was going on in London , we were just here at the right time to entertain everyone . |
| 27 | Yet they all move together in the right way at the right time to carry out part of a complicated manoeuvre . |
| 28 | He moves forward minimally , to the right place , at the right time to maximise this . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've often watched you in the past and wondered how you know exactly the right time to enter the bidding , the right time to leave , ’ Moran praised . |
| 30 | There are so many versions of it already , and now does n't seem the right time to do it — I think I would rather wait until I was more established , and have something different to say about it . ’ |