Example sentences of "time in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I am delighted to have heard anything worthwhile by Schillings , whose music I have known for some time in piano-vocal scores but have not encountered in performance . |
| 2 | It causes ‘ thrush ’ , which is an infection of mucous membranes occurring from time to time in young children , characterized by white patches developing in the mouth . |
| 3 | A constant stream of US dollar notes would need to be sent from America , only to be sent back a little at a time in individual parcels as above . |
| 4 | Nagengast et al , using a similar radioopaque marker method to our own , could find no relationship between faecal bile acid concentration or pattern and transit time in healthy controls . |
| 5 | As for changes over time in spatial disparities within the EC other than those generated by the accession of new members , Boltho ( 1989 ) demonstrates that from 1950 onwards there has been some reduction in the degree of regional income imbalance . |
| 6 | Much other statistical and record material also appears from time to time in major newspapers and economic commercial and industrial periodicals . |
| 7 | Consequently , as Needham has pointed out , in so far as Chinese natural philosophy ‘ was committed to thinking of time in separate compartments or boxes , perhaps it was more difficult for a Galileo to arise who should uniformise time into an abstract geometrical co-ordinate , a continuous dimension amenable to mathematical handling ’ . |
| 8 | Current experimental work with mothers and infants sleeping together in sleep laboratories is tracing the interaction of their patterns of breathing , and has found that in such conditions infants spend less time in deep stages of sleep . |
| 9 | He spent a great deal of time in similar situations , seeking gold or demons or distressed virgins and relieving them respectively of their owners , their lives and at least one cause of their distress . |
| 10 | With increasing integration , some special school teachers are spending part of their time in ordinary schools , supporting children with special educational needs in ordinary classes or special classes and units attached to the ordinary school . |
| 11 | The waiting time in other areas would be established , and , if appropriate , the doctor would be redirected . |
| 12 | Major movies are being made all the time in other countries , particularly in Australia and Britain , so I 'm not in any race to get to Hollywood . |
| 13 | It is the second time in recent months that the Finnish currency has been hit by a crisis of confidence . |
| 14 | For the third time in recent months residents sufferered the nuisance and threat of unwanted neighbours . |
| 15 | For Dawn has spent much of her time in recent weeks on a woman-watching exercise . |
| 16 | For the first time in recent years , payments to producers showed no increase , at 20.2p/litre , although Mr Howie pointed out it was the best figure among the five UK boards . |
| 17 | It was the third time in recent years that a county match had been completed inside an August day at Old Trafford . |
| 18 | From time to time in recent years , analyses have been made , based on information in reference books , of the social background of the more senior judiciary . |
| 19 | It will be a very low level of inflation , lower than we have known at any time in recent years , and steady sustainable growth leading to secure jobs , sustaining the Conservative party in government for many years . |
| 20 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
| 21 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 22 | Educated at Eton and then sent to Europe to improve himself , he worked for a short time in various jobs in ‘ the city ’ before becoming an ADC to the Governor of Australia . |
| 23 | The pH does tend to drop over a period of time in bare tanks ( that is tanks without any substrate or plants . |
| 24 | The development of these skills is dependent on the young animal spending a considerable time in normal relationships with its own kind . |
| 25 | Community care plans are often bedevilled by too many people from too many organizations spending too much time in endless meetings where no decisions get taken and where ideas and enthusiasm become diluted and , eventually , dissipated into thin air . |
| 26 | We wish to distance ourselves from such inferences , even though naturally we would expect our findings to generate constructive discussion about the effective use of pupils ' and teachers ' time in primary schools . |
| 27 | The problem of time in primary classrooms does not arise solely from external pressures . |
| 28 | Like Mrs Secretan , Elizabeth had married off a daughter , like her she had lived in fear ( then unfounded ) of cancer , and had felt uncomfortably sure that she had offended someone ; like Elinor Pringle she had filled up time in odd places , during short periods of being alone ; like Meg , she knew the fascination of the Thames estuary ; with Patrick Barlow she shared the accidie of the writer , and a love for the same sort of painting . |
| 29 | Among the Egyptian volunteers believed to be still in Pakistan are Islamic radicals who went into battle , with travel documents provided by the obliging Saudis , after having served time in Egyptian prisons . |
| 30 | These include the relativistic dependence of time on velocity and the strange new features of time in black holes , as well as the ambiguity of direction of time that has emerged in the mathematical description of the interactions of elementary particles . |