Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 It certainly can not , therefore , be used to measure change over time : one of the reasons for its use .
2 He opened a white smile in his dark sun-bronzed face and tapped a knife against the silver champagne bucket in time to the music .
3 As always , the risk element was the icing on the cake as far as he was concerned He breathed in the fine night air and hummed the tune of Colonel Bogey in time with his silent footsteps .
4 So far they have had four cell meetings with time to share their situations , discuss , pray , and relax , together .
5 It 'll show you the value of your practice building with time .
6 The Daleks proved an immediate hit with the production cast and crew as they were delivered to Lime Grove 's car park in time for the dress rehearsals .
7 Dancers at the Royal Opera House yesterday called off their overtime ban in time for tonight 's gala performance of the Prince of the Pagodas .
8 They wanted to achieve a 40% reduction in plant labour and overhead costs , 100% quality from vendors , 100% quality through customers ' processes , 25% reduction in time to market , and 14 inventory turns per annum through ‘ just in time ’ techniques .
9 For optimum open-loop operation the velocity profile for acceleration is an approximate exponential function of time and for deceleration a " reverse exponential " is needed [ Fig. 8.8(a) ] .
10 Even if the ageing of Western populations eases current labour surpluses in time , many companies face a dilemma today .
11 Obviously , both the concrete and social forms of this labour change through time .
12 ( 2.12 ) with respect to time : So in this case the winding currents undergo a smooth exponential change with time constant 2L/R = 2 ms , as shown in Fig. 2.5. ( b ) .
13 Koraloona is 130 miles west of Sanders Island and is dangerous to shipping because it is encircled by a coral reef at times fifty miles long , marked on all Admiralty charts .
14 Get the repeat prescriptions in time so that he is never left without .
15 TRAVEL : By air , rail , coach and car offering flexibility of time and date of travel as well as choice of departure points .
16 ‘ Selectors perform an important role — it can be a difficult balancing act at times , and you do n't get a second chance to get it right .
17 US West Inc , which last week was talking about the multimedia database system it is developing with Oracle Corp ( CI No 2,166 ) , is stepping up its commitment to infotainment by agreeing to pay $2,500m for a 25% stake in Time Warner Inc 's Time Warner Entertainment affiliate — in which Toshiba Corp and Japanese trader Itochu Corp each has a stake — to seal a deal under which the two companies will collaborate to develop electronic superhighways — full-service cable networks offering interactive programming , entertainment and information .
18 On May 17th a partial but telling answer to the first of these questions emerged when US West , one of America 's huge regional Bell telephone companies , said it would pay $1.5 billion for a 25% stake in Time Warner Entertainment ( TWE ) , the cable-TV and film subsidiary of the world 's biggest media conglomerate , whose stars include Mel Gibson ( pictured above ) .
19 Bernice and the Doctor entered the monitor room in time to help Cheryl stretch Miles out on the floor next to an open medkit , while Bishop probed intently into the racks of recording systems .
20 But where R(s) is the autocorrelation coefficient for time delay s .
21 I mean , he seems to share many of Nicholas 's earliest baby reactions — an extremely low boredom threshold , a destructive reaction to toys and household objects and a born love of music ( well , he can bang a saucepan lid in time to the theme tune of Neighbours ) .
22 So a cloudy night with further light rain at times and some sleet on the Cotswolds .
23 ( vi ) Permanent data were to be validated against the employee record at time of input and either rejected or a warning issued if the data were either invalid or dubious .
24 As well as differing from place to place , what is defined as crime changes over time .
25 This social creation of significant labels can be demonstrated by noting how the salience of labels changes over time .
26 This critique of the consequences of science and consumption culture as ideology comes from a method that is ‘ dialectical ’ ; there is a two-sided discourse that through the effect of criticism on consciousness changes over time .
27 Richard Corliss in Time magazine recognised that , ‘ The most reactionary middle-American could sit back comfortably and think that , if marrying a pretty girl is all my subversive son wants , maybe the kid is n't so bad after all . ’
28 The research undertaken on the two case studies was highly cost-effective ( £3-4,000 per 50-100 researchers ) in contrast to the co-citation and co-word studies , and resulted in clear demonstrations of the contributions made by the UK , and constituent research centres , to Ocean Currents and Protein Crystallography over time .
29 We meet Charity and your friend Clarissa at the Ritz Bar in Paris on the Saturday morning in time for luncheon .
30 Controls were further matched with cases for residence in the study area at time of diagnosis .
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