Example sentences of "[prep] time that " in BNC.
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| 1 | IMO it has been demonstrated time after time that Strachan is pretty useless on the left ( even though he put in a nice cross for Hodge on saturday ) ) Even in the scum match , Strachan looked just a little too late and too slow in most situations , and I understand from the match reports that he has n't improved since . |
| 2 | ‘ Pah , nothing 's left from the previous existence — only the mere lees and dregs of thought , dreams of past time that the creature does not heed , or not half as much as the figments he has derived from Milton ! |
| 3 | Dedicated souls have , in the last few years , congregated at the Mile End wall in east London — a trip that takes your correspondent half an hour ; a length of time that sees most Sheffielders halfway to their first route at Stanage . |
| 4 | The percentage of time that meters were occupied during the penalty period fell from 19 to 5 per cent in Pimlico with an increase in ‘ meter-feeding ’ . |
| 5 | There is indeed something godlike about carbon , its omni-presence in all things living and dead , the grand cycles of time that move it in its vehicular form carbon dioxide between land , sea and air , the fertility it provides and its release by fire . |
| 6 | This dislocated alternation of joy and fear , anxiety and compulsion , of being outside and inside , and of time that is distorted away from the normal sequence , is difficult to put into words , later words , linear words : but once , in a friend 's flat in Holland Park , I heard the opening passages of a gramophone record which almost caught it : Bartok 's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion . |
| 7 | ‘ And the large amount of time that the journey took also cast doubt . |
| 8 | As Robyn Penrose is winding up her lecture , and Vic Wilcox is commencing his tour of the machine shop , Philip Swallow returns from a rather tiresome meeting of the Arts Faculty Postgraduate Studies Committee ( which wrangled for two hours about the proposed revision of a clause in the PhD regulations and then voted to leave it unchanged , an expenditure of time that seemed all the more vain since there are scarcely any new candidates for the PhD in arts subjects anyway these days ) to find a rather disturbing message from the Vice-Chancellor 's office . |
| 9 | Among the conventions for the division of time that have come down to us from Imperial Rome is the seven-day week . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not the sort of time that people generally call — ’ |
| 11 | That 's the equivalent amount of time that is spent in the average household washing up in one year . |
| 12 | Obviously one influence here is the length of time that has elapsed since that part of the stock was last revised . |
| 13 | The amount of time that even ‘ professional ’ long-firm fraudsters spend in prison is remarkably small in relation to the generally large amounts of money that are obtained from such frauds ( Reading 5 , Chapter 5 , taken from Levi 's study , looks at the long-firm fraudster and imprisonment ) . |
| 14 | It is often the sudden availability of time that allows women to develop their talents at last — and then find that other people want to pay them for their work ! |
| 15 | For example , we have been able to show that the proportion of time that different species of primate spend feeding , resting , or moving about their home-range or territory , is correlated with body size . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The terms ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ must be regarded as having had no meaning whatsoever in the infinity of time that preceded life on earth . |
| 18 | There was a slight awkward pause and in the tiny fraction of time that it lasted Harriet experienced a stab of pique . |
| 19 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 20 | They dived down from out of the sun to the south and in view of the short space of time that had elapsed since the aircraft had landed it is almost certain that the enemy aircraft must have seen the Sunderland in the air . |
| 21 | The amount by which the latter is over-length is the length of time that you should allow the source recording to run before you begin the transfer onto the cued tape ; the music will then end exactly on cue . |
| 22 | As part of the deal with AA , he was required to stay with the firm for the same period of time that he had spent in the US . |
| 23 | The APB went on to observe that ‘ … the degree of reliance that can reasonably be placed on financial statements will decrease as the length of time that has elapsed since their approval by the directors increases ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ That sounds like the same sort of time that — ‘ |
| 25 | The amount of time that needed to be spent in co-ordinating services , and in involving the residential care staff fully at each stage , was considerable , but this resulted in their incorporation in the family network , and rightful attendance at a family meeting . |
| 26 | The length of time that the child stays with any one activity indicates the attention span and restlessness that the child shows at home . |
| 27 | Given the amount of time that the male has invested in his group of females , it is hardly surprising that he is ready to defend them vigorously against other males . |
| 28 | It became , ‘ how can it possibly have come about in so short a period of time that so many women have become involved in politics ? ’ |
| 29 | As its name implies , this is based on your average earnings over the total period of time that you are participating in the scheme . |
| 30 | Each module has a set of learning outcomes and encompasses a span of time that is meaningful to a 13 to 14 year old . |