Example sentences of "different [noun pl] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in the same village , there would be two different sorts of time . |
| 2 | The responsibility can be defined differently at different periods of time . |
| 3 | Methodological objections could be made to comparing the two groups because of the different periods of time monitored , that is , for prisoners the period of time refers to after the sentence has been served whereas for probationers it is after the sentence has been imposed . |
| 4 | The Maya pictured the divisions of time as burdens carried by a hierarchy of divine bearers who personified the respective numbers by which the different periods of time — days , months , years , etc. — were distinguished . |
| 5 | Therefore , the actions which are defined as criminal will vary with different social settings — in different societies and different periods of time . |
| 6 | This rather defeats its theoretical purpose of putting different types of loan over different periods of time on to an identical basis for comparison . |
| 7 | Perhaps , I can then proceed to manipulate these numbers , and use the findings to put forward more precise proposals as to the level of budget , or the way in which the budget should be deployed — in different media , over different periods of time , etc . |
| 8 | Alcohol and other drugs have direct sedative and stimulant effects on the brain , both acting at the same time but over different periods of time . |
| 9 | Erm , I work in a project at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow , and one of the things , there 's young who experiment with drugs whether we like it or not , and I think it depends what drug i is available at that time , so we could sit here and go through the different periods of time . |
| 10 | yes after different periods of time there not all |
| 11 | Generally speaking , however , different intervals of time tended to be thought of as separate discrete units . |
| 12 | Because people moving at different speeds measure different distances between events , they must also measure different intervals of time if they are to agree on the speed of light . |
| 13 | In this kind of mythological scheme This World and The Other World coexist in different orders of time ( e.g. as between waking time and dreaming time ) . |
| 14 | Words such as ‘ hurriedly ’ and ‘ quickly ’ are likely to be associated with different orders of time spans in the minds of the two people . |
| 15 | It takes different people different lengths of time to conceive . |
| 16 | If there was not a ‘ ceiling ’ to potency level then serial dilution would not be needed to make a remedy , one could simply shake any dilution for different lengths of time as in the example give above . |
| 17 | They are the culminations of a whole life which , as Malcolm Johnson puts it , ‘ sculpted their present problems and concerns ’ ; a life itself built around many different ‘ life-threads ’ — education , work , marriage , children , hobbies , and so on — so that it is best understood , both in psychological and social terms , ‘ as a complex of strands running for different lengths of time throughout a life biography and moulding its individuality ’ . |
| 18 | It takes different people different lengths of time to conceive . |
| 19 | At different points of time , one set of ideas may be abandoned and another adopted , and the history of any society consists of a series of such adjustments , some more radical than others . |
| 20 | Because comparison is generally more important in science than the determination of an absolute value , we are generally involved in observing either the same sample at two different points of time between which X occurs , or two different samples at the same point in time , only one having been subjected to X. |
| 21 | Professor Dowd found it particularly irritating and inconvenient , as did the railway companies and their customers , that in the mid-1860s the continental United States had no fewer than eighty different standards of time . |
| 22 | There are at least three different arrows of time . |
| 23 | Conversion takes many forms and different amounts of time . |
| 24 | That there are two basic different types of time . |