Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may be able to work different hours for a period of time while her burden is shared by another member of the family or a neighbour . |
| 2 | SAYS Kinsey : ‘ What we have seen in newspaper editorials and in political speeches over a period of time , is a latching on to the problem of crime and a series of assertions about the so-called welfare-dependent underclass . |
| 3 | There is no obligation to buy any books over a period of time . |
| 4 | The purpose of critical appraisal is to show up the effects of a proposal before time and effort are invested in putting an idea into action . |
| 5 | .. sounds like discharges of artillery at intervals of a second of time , and a crackling noise , probably due to the impact of fragments in the atmosphere . |
| 6 | This paper , regarded by students of horology as a classic of its kind , suggested that the United States be divided along longitude lines into a number of time zones , each one precisely one hour behind its eastern neighbour . |
| 7 | A programme of lectures , seminars and visits over a period of time is most likely to meet that need . |
| 8 | Most of the surveys showing that unemployed people are less healthy than the employed are cross-sectional in nature ( comparing different people at the same time , rather than following the changes in people 's lives over a period of time ) . |
| 9 | The organisers will urge participants , who will represent the 11 provinces of Zaire , to arrange similar seminars in their respective areas over a period of time . |
| 10 | Will the attack on democracy be as outrageous as killing all blue-eyed babies , or will it be a more insidious erosion of rights and liberties over a period of time ? |
| 11 | One method of reducing surpluses has been for companies to take contributions holidays ( although generally these are not extended to employee contribution holidays ) whereby they do not pay any contributions for a period of time . |
| 12 | It becomes an inevitable part of normal living that we form significant relationships with particular individuals for a period of time and then , often through force of circumstance , move away from those same relationships . |
| 13 | There are an increasing number of surveys which have looked at individuals over a period of time . |
| 14 | People have made wonderful toys in a lot of different places over a period of time . |
| 15 | For this reason production cooperatives must be encouraged to grow from small beginnings over a period of time with sensitive support . |
| 16 | Usage reduces stocks over a period of time . |
| 17 | A common application of this is the sale and purchase of successive adjacent plots over a period of time . |
| 18 | If we were to extend this line of reasoning , we would also have to consider the materiality of services such as hairdressing , advertising and repairs which , arguably , take a tangible form and benefit their customers for a period of time after production . |
| 19 | The screen of this complicated electronic instrument presents a stationary picture of the potential difference between its input terminals as a function of time . |
| 20 | I regard the solipsist position that everything is the creation of our imaginations as a waste of time . |
| 21 | In the case of bulk packages from which the product is likely to be removed in successive quantities over a period of time , separate tests should be carried out to assess the effect of storage in partly filled containers . |
| 22 | maintaining contact with families over a period of time |
| 23 | In July 1964 the corporation , the NIHT and the rural district council came to an agreement to share responsibility for housing Springtown families over a period of time , but this did not end the problem . |
| 24 | Conference participants agreed that regular meetings would be preceded in the first instance by a meeting in September of arms control experts who would finalize details of an agreement in time for a plenary session scheduled for October . |
| 25 | Undertake the management of the care of a group of patients over a period of time and organise the appropriate support service . |
| 26 | These courses are run over several months , giving participants time to try out the suggestions over a period of time . |
| 27 | However , as a sociologist , I was interested in observing routine cases over a period of time in order to look for regular and recurring patterns of action and interaction that might allow certain generalisations to be made . |
| 28 | Figure 8 is an example of such a study which recorded and classified accidents over a period of time . |
| 29 | Other studies have surveyed panels of respondents over a period of time — though few have physiological measures of health ( such as changes in blood pressure ) or doctors diagnoses , and most use self-report questionnaires of one sort or another . |
| 30 | Those talking optimistically about GATT claim to want the makings of a deal in time for the Tokyo economic summit in June . |