Example sentences of "time [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 These Councils , and another four formed later , continue to operate at the present time as autonomous bodies with their own presidents officers and delegates .
2 Only a small minority of the wines are kept for a long time as vintage wines .
3 The situation had become so severe by the spring , however , that the Eleventh Party Congress took time off other matters to discuss it .
4 The time for gentle breezes is over , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg typed ) , the time for the oohs and ahs , for the oh so beautiful and the ah so expressive , for the deep humanity and the flesh-coloured tints , for the sensitive and the profound , for the exquisite and the brilliant .
5 The hon. Member for Denton and Reddish ( Mr. Bennett ) suggested that we need to ensure a proper amount of time for outside organisations to lobby the House .
6 The whips agree to give a certain amount of time for private members ' bills and private members ' motions , but they then encourage all their own backbenchers to ballot for these opportunities .
7 To ask the Lord President of the Council what representations he has received about the allocation of parliamentary time for private Members .
8 I have not received any representations about the allocation of parliamentary time for private Members .
9 Jimmy Carter 's presidency , like that of Gerald Ford , began on an optimistic note with commentators deriving satisfaction from the fact that for the first time for eight years president and Congress would be in the hands of the same party .
10 Next year will certainly be a time for married women although their husbands will also be able to benefit from the personal tax changes which come into force on April 6 .
11 Supper was the banquet time for married children and their families .
12 When you have some children who find it very difficult to work with others , one solution might be to work with much smaller groups , maybe even just a couple of them at a time for five minutes or so .
13 Development spending was to rise by 21 per cent to taka86,500 million , exceeding the total for recurrent expenditure ( up 8 per cent at taka85,500 million ) for the first time for five years .
14 This is obviously not the time for celebratory gestures .
15 Mr Young does not have much time for fancy patterns with three dimensional ‘ fiddly ’ bits .
16 Although they have worked together for so many years , there has still been time for individual projects and exhibitions : François-Xavier has moved on from vegetable architecture to monumental fountains and sculptures ; Claude 's ventures include jewellery and bronze furniture for an American garden , stage props for Bob Wilson and breastplates for the angels in Wim Wenders ' film ‘ Wings of Desire ’ .
17 He found first that ROI was remarkably stable over time at the company level , but that it showed considerable variation over time for individual businesses ( i.e. the SBUs ) .
18 The RISC hypothesis is that by reducing the instruction set one can design an architecture which reduces the design time , number of design errors , and the time for individual instructions .
19 Allocations of time for individual subjects were omitted from the bill .
20 To test the first possibility P(A) was calculated using the same procedure as before but this time for individual subjects rather than stimuli .
21 It is time for certain philosophers to come and take a hard look at the data which we have collected before they dismiss our models and our philosophical assumptions so glibly .
22 His heart lurched as he saw her for the first time for nine years , now in her new role as a woman .
23 Bigger groups are likely to find economic recovery patchy and it could take time for higher earnings and dividends to feed through to investors ; while the more volatile smaller businesses , having been hit harder on the way down could spring back faster , Hardman says .
24 take the view that erm they are put up by the Council from time to time for various reasons .
25 Will my hon. Friend confirm that there is still time for various groups , whether environmental or road safety , to respond to the Government 's proposals ?
26 Then on the question of consistency across the services , my colleague chief officers and I are very conscious of the fact that we should endeavour to get just as Mr suggests some er , er cross service er , erm common response time for various points raised .
27 The Fifties was a great time for moral stands , at least on this subject , accompanied by high-level debate and quixotic , brave , sometimes eccentric gestures of persuasion .
28 By the time of anthesis , there is time for four generations and a single insect can by then have given rise to 4000 juveniles : they get trapped between the anthers and the petals as the ! lowers open and , as adults , feed on the pollen .
29 but er , I think most of the time the wedding in here is much more geared for how the bride look like and photographer , it is all the time for four hours , how you stand , it 's nothing normal , noth nothing natural , nothing
30 I wondered if Lou would take up his bow and play until ten thirty , or whether he would extend his practice time for four minutes .
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