Example sentences of "time the system " in BNC.
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| 1 | When state-supported secondary education was introduced in 1878 , a denominational system was officially set up , though at this time the system was only availed of by the few families who could afford to lose the labour of young teenagers . |
| 2 | Those who do not can afford to take that line , presumably , because over time the system has built up a stock of people and procedures which allow it to evolve almost under its own momentum . |
| 3 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 4 | The resulting structure can be saved in memory to be loaded each time the system starts up . |
| 5 | Over a period of time the system can deteriorate , suffer interference , misalignments , and indifferent maintenance . |
| 6 | The cost at the time the system was developed was estimated at about the same as the salary of one personnel officer — for one year — without the costs of an office , car or secretary that the officer would need . |
| 7 | The need for the recommendation of a high-ranking scholar provided a control on the quality of the intake-as long , of course , as the scholar were reasonably honest-while the quantity could be controlled by altering a number of factors , for example , the period at which the regular investiture took place , the number of ceremonial occasions on which special investitures might occur or the number of students the holder of any given office might invest as Interesting , though extremely belated , attempts to control both the quality and the quantity of are represented by two decrees of the year 1715 , by which time the system had very nearly completely broken down . |
| 8 | The equilibrium state describes the proportion of time the system spends in each state in the long term . |
| 9 | It is clear from the above figures that the Liberal Democrats get a rotten hand at each game of election poker and it is high time the system was changed . |