Example sentences of "[adj] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The memory was still fresh of the time when he was considered a world-beater , and in receipt of so much weight from Arkle he could certainly be given a realistic chance . |
| 2 | In the first plant , Melman said , machines are down for at least half of the time . |
| 3 | Of that hour , about half of the time will be spent taking notes of the patient 's problem and explaining about hypnosis in general and regression in particular . |
| 4 | ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time . |
| 5 | Half of the time this gives rise to tritium and a proton , and ( almost ) the rest of the time gives helium-3 and a neutron . |
| 6 | Only three of the whole group had worked since redundancy , and only one of those did so for more than half of the time between redundancy and interview . |
| 7 | Possible answers were never , occasionally , quarter to half of the time , usually , or always . |
| 8 | Cyberscience says that reports can often be produced in a hundredth of the time that it takes with Cobol . |
| 9 | If a message can be compressed one hundred times , it can be transmitted in one hundredth of the time , or transmitted at the same speed through a channel with one hundredth of the band width , and it can be stored in one hundredth of the volume of the original . |
| 10 | Do you know any others erm tell you about erm you know some of the some of the times when you 've been affected by crime . |
| 11 | And walking about up to here some of the times in mud . |
| 12 | Problems of authenticity are not so great or modern art as for other periods , even if a gifted forger like the painter Elmir de Horty can fool some of the people for some of the time . |
| 13 | To beguile some of the time in Malvern , they went to the cinema . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's accepted that the towing tractor will stand idle for some of the time , but at least you are n't taking tankers into the field , ’ he adds . |
| 15 | Some of the time the Germans at one end of the stadium were hearing the French translation , while their own language was floating with the wind over the top of the stadium and down to Lake Geneva . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been sitting around twiddling our thumbs for some of the time and people have been sloping off early , ’ he said . |
| 17 | These grounds reflect some of the reasons some of the time for compiling records . |
| 18 | The misleadingly alarming appearance of our conclusions results from the fact that they show that where conformity is called for it is based only some of the time , and less often than is often imagined , on the legitimate authority of the government , and often on other considerations . |
| 19 | ‘ Some of the time , yes . ’ |
| 20 | Uli Edel directs scenes of terrifying violence and suffering , but LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN is also concerned with the assertion of human dignity and self-respect ; demonstrating how some people , some of the time , struggle to retain a vestige of compassion and tenderness in brutal , degrading circumstances . |
| 21 | I think most Prisoners would say that the sex problem worried them less than they had expected it to , but that is not to say that it did not worry most people some of the time and some people all the time . |
| 22 | The patient 's problem is that he has joined a group of unfamiliar people , some of whom , the patients , are present all the time ; others , the nurses , are in his vicinity for some of the time ; and a whole variety of others appear ‘ to come and go ’ . |
| 23 | Or perhaps some architects some of the time . |
| 24 | In fact I think there is overwhelming evidence to show that at least some of the time a ouija board can be a device ( like a crystal ball or a pendulum ) for releasing the forces of the subconscious in an irresponsible way , which can cause untold damage to the human personality . ’ |
| 25 | With powerful cars , no physical obstacles and with the knowledge that legal retribution is unlikely , it is not surprising that the 30 mph limit is held in contempt by many drivers all of the time and abused by nearly all drivers some of the time . |
| 26 | Wherever you take them , though , try , if it is possible and the weather is good , to arrange for them to spend some of the time out of doors — for the housebound elderly are often short of vitamin D , which most of us get from natural sunlight ( as well as certain foods ) and this deficiency can lead to the painful condition of osteomalacia , in which there is rarefaction of the bones . |
| 27 | Even the poorest of us have some money in our pockets some of the time . |
| 28 | Though Marje believed that Phillip was living a bachelor life at a London hotel between trysts with her , he spent some of the time , at least , with Meli in her apartment over a hairdresser 's shop and a prostitute 's flat in London 's Kensington . |
| 29 | As has been said , these are essential data for the story , and some of the time they seem to be confirmed . |
| 30 | I think everyone , some of the time , and some people nearly all the time , recurrently experience in and with their bodies literal meanings of certain oft-repeated speech they heard in childhood . |