Example sentences of "an [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can we draw valid conclusions from such an instant of time in our planet 's history about mountains and weather which were here long before and will be long after us ? |
| 2 | Curiously , while ( 64 ) can only be used as a greeting ( at least in British English ) , ( 65 ) can only be used as a parting : ( 65 ) Good night so that we have here an interaction of time and discourse deixis . |
| 3 | Schools also have an existence in time and place . |
| 4 | The plane took off an hour behind time thanks to EC president Jacques Delors ' late arrival . |
| 5 | ‘ Farming is an investment of time , money and purpose in life , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , in spite of an investment of time , effort and money , the final product did not reach the bureaux . |
| 7 | Since an investment of time and effort is required it is important to be sure that it will all be worthwhile . |
| 8 | In corporate accounting , this would go down under salaries or labour costs ; while for Brazil it represented an investment of time and resources as well as a transfer of technology . |
| 9 | Dunne would have been forgotten — except , perhaps , by fly-fishermen ; for his first book was a beginners ’ guide to the art of the dry fly — if An Experiment with Time ( 1927 ) had not enjoyed an immediate and lasting success . |
| 10 | Dunne himself went out of his way to insist that his theory was free from any occult taint ; but An Experiment with Time , revised and expanded in 1934 , was to remain in print for over half a century ; and ironically , it won the reputation of doing more to convince the general public of the reality of clairvoyance , in the form of precognition , than all the labours of the psychical researchers whom Dunne so mistrusted . |
| 11 | Verbs involve an appreciation of time ; nouns of objects in space , or of mental concepts and experiences ; adjectives of qualities between which we can discriminate ; adverbs of associations in time , space and quality . |
| 12 | A filofax can be more useful than a conventional diary as an aid to time management . |
| 13 | Later he would spit venom at Band Aid in an interview with Time Out 's Simon Garfield . |
| 14 | Judith Chivers , an expert in time management , told them how to lead a less stressful life , and Steve Wellard , a Royal Scottish Consultant , explained the benefits of investing in a pension scheme . |
| 15 | However , staff and line managers should be wary of an overcommitment of time and resources to enquiries , each to be individually assessed as to its merits ( charging for materials where appropriate ) . |
| 16 | Physicist Paul Davies talks about the progression to more complex organisms via the evolutionary ladder , and the steady accumulation of complexity which is time- asymmetric ; it defines an arrow of time from past to future . |
| 17 | The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time , something that distinguishes the past from the future , giving a direction to time . |
| 18 | Well , er er a similar , er when you got a letter , when you got a letter , so you you 'd probably get you 'd probably get four or five Woodbines , you see , er things like this , and there was an issue from time to time , and they were chiefly American cigarettes , chiefly American cigarettes . |
| 19 | Ironically , the award came in the same week that an article in Time Out magazine revealed an ongoing private dispute between Sellafield and the Central Electricity Generating Board ( CEGB ) about the efficiency and safety of reprocessing . |
| 20 | A few months later someone in my house told me about an article in Time Out about the Liberation Network . |
| 21 | Finally , hypnosis is usually carried out some time after the police have done their normal questioning , but memory of an event can often improve spontaneously after an interval of time has passed ; this phenomenon is known as the ‘ reminiscence effect . ’ |
| 22 | The prosecution should try to prove an interval of time between forming the intention and using the article to injure when the third category of ‘ intended ’ is used ( Ohlson v Hylton [ 1975 ] 2 All ER 490 ) . |
| 23 | For an aeon of time the words meant nothing . |
| 24 | Withdrawal should be over an period of time to allow the Northern Irish time to establish a new form of government . |
| 25 | No additional food should be offered during the day apart from meal-times so that the child has the opportunity to develop an appetite in time for the next meal . |
| 26 | Time relations have to do with locating an event in time . |
| 27 | Virtually everyone who works for an enterprise from time to time will acquire information from the environment of potential value to its operations . |
| 28 | Accountants Touche Ross asked for an extension of time for the filing of a ‘ monitoring return ’ giving details of Barlow Clowes ' finances which was due by the end of that month . |
| 29 | The Company had been under an obligation to complete the line by 15 August 1905 , but obtained an extension of time when it was discovered that the power supply from Beckenham would not be ready until I April 1906 . |
| 30 | For this reason failure to respond is rare and late responses are deemed to include an application for an extension of time , which is invariably allowed . |