Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | The explanation has to be that the company shot itself in the foot by announcing the Sparcsystem 10 machines with such a long lead time , many would-be customers are holding back and waiting for them , and that things will not really start to pick up until those start shipping around September time — which suggests that dullness will continue for the current quarter . |
| 32 | Such a high ratio of prevalence to incidence suggests either a long lead time , which is not typical of the invasive cancers that are the intended target of the screening programme , or a large element of overdiagnosis of slowly progressive disease , or both . |
| 33 | There is a rich variety of unc periodic ( harmonic and higher harmonic ) and subharmonic solutions that map out periodic attractors : a few periodic attractors are illustrated in Fig. 2.20 , where the system is rewritten as ( 2.8 ) unc and the solutions ( after a long integration time , so all transients have decayed ) are plotted in the xy plane . |
| 34 | Since the catalytic cleavage of DNA by bleomycin occurs by a free radical mechanism it may not require a long residence time on its binding site . |
| 35 | Whilst this representation provides a very compact method of holding and handling a wide range of the common geometric forms found in engineering , it can result in a long processing time when real model edges have to be determined in complex models . |
| 36 | The government 's manifesto commitment was to increase benefit in line with prices but this does not guarantee its future after the next election , and presumably any proposals on child benefit would have a long lead-in time . |
| 37 | The idea of giving a backward horse time , of not over-racing his less tough charges , of giving the vet the benefit of the doubt when he said a leg was liable to break down on hard ground — these were alien concepts to Harry Short . |
| 38 | Nor can it explain the shift from an initial RVF superiority on a visual reaction time task to a LVF superiority when a concurrent memory list of nouns is superimposed on the perceptual task ( Hellige , Cox and Litvac , 1979 ) . |
| 39 | Taken together with the finding that an initial RVF superiority on a visual reaction time task gave way to a LVF superiority when subjects were required to simultaneously hold in memory a list of nouns ( Hellige , Cox and Litvac , 1979 ) , this implies that dynamic shifts in attention are insufficient to explain all perceptual laterality effects . |
| 40 | Subtracting the job time from the end time gives a late start time of 16 , the same as the early start . |
| 41 | Subtracting the job time from the end time gives a late start time of 16 , the same as the early start . |
| 42 | He had a late starting time at three o'clock . |
| 43 | A three-minute peak time call was 16.8p with BT , compared with 75p for private users of Mercury One-2-One , the spokesman added . |
| 44 | You know , I think it is now more a traditional family time , Christmas , and you know they do n't look at Hogmanay the same . |
| 45 | It is true that a good marathon time shows that you have both fitness and endurance , but because of the effort you have made , you will not be able to exploit those gains for some time . |
| 46 | If the rated winding current is 3 A , hand the voltages required in a bilevel drive circuit to give a current rise time of 1 ms . |
| 47 | Weigh the turkey to establish a rough cooking time . |
| 48 | There are four short-term deposit ( or short-term interest rate ) contracts traded on LIFFE : a three-month sterling time deposit contract , a three-month eurodollar time deposit contract a three-month eurodeutschmark time deposit contract , and a three-month ECU ( European Currency Unit ) time deposit contract . |
| 49 | There are four short-term deposit ( or short-term interest rate ) contracts traded on LIFFE : a three-month sterling time deposit contract , a three-month eurodollar time deposit contract a three-month eurodeutschmark time deposit contract , and a three-month ECU ( European Currency Unit ) time deposit contract . |
| 50 | There are four short-term deposit ( or short-term interest rate ) contracts traded on LIFFE : a three-month sterling time deposit contract , a three-month eurodollar time deposit contract a three-month eurodeutschmark time deposit contract , and a three-month ECU ( European Currency Unit ) time deposit contract . |
| 51 | However a surface likely to be recontaminated between use needs to be disinfected immediately before use bearing in mind that a higher concentration may be necessary to compensate for a reduced contact time or reduced time in a dry state . |
| 52 | After a short delay time ( 10 -8 s ) the excited atom or molecule returns to its former energy state and may emit radiation in the form of light , alpha- , beta- or gamma-rays . |
| 53 | If this sediment were carbonate-rich , it might imply a short cycle time because carbonate deep-sea sediment was rare before 600 million years ago . |
| 54 | Turner , just 17 , scored a dramatic injury time winner for Tottenham — and was so stunned he was n't sure how to celebrate . |
| 55 | The second is a slick operator , who studies his victim 's habits for a few days to establish a safe crime time . |
| 56 | ‘ Prime Minister ’ Courtanay Botterell is pictured being filmed at the dispatch box during a rowdy Question Time . |
| 57 | Thus the addition to a given run time will not be significant . |
| 58 | Also , for this effect we do not require a single delay time . |
| 59 | This can be illustrated by a creep test using a simple Voigt-Kelvin model with a single retardation time τ R , placed initially under a stress σ o at time t o . |
| 60 | An exactly analogous state of affairs occurs in the use of the Debye model in dielectric theory ( see , for example , Frölich ( 1958 ) or Daniel ( 1967 ) ) where the behaviour of a dielectric can not be represented exactly by a single relaxation time model . |