Example sentences of "so that the time " in BNC.

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1 Although Sukarno fought to retain his authority he was steadily out-manoevred by General Suharto , hitherto little known , so that The Times ( 2 March 1966 ) had to announce : ‘ Remarkably little is spoken of him .
2 The disease accelerates so that the times of improvement become no longer measurable improvements but simply times of no further drastic decline ( see Q in fig ii ) … until the next time .
3 The extra time and support that are necessary ( a ) to perform jobs that are pressing at the limits of personal and material resources , and ( b ) to invest in learning how to do them better , or to assemble additional resources , so that the time taken to perform them is reduced , are not available .
4 This is achieved by arranging efficient delivery systems , both within the firm and for goods from outside suppliers , so that the time between receipt of a sales order and delivery of the product is kept to a minimum , and the flow of deliveries and production proceeds so smoothly that there is no need to produce for stock .
5 If , on the other hand , there are many unstressed syllables between the stressed ones , then the unstressed ones are squeezed together , so that the time between the stresses is approximately the same as it was in the first example ( see the sentence " The weather we had last summer was awful " ) .
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