Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of time for " in BNC.

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1 The teachers in our study did use strategies which came into the first category , but it was the second which was the key to understanding the all-pervasive quality of the collaboration and the self-sufficiency of the children which had so impressed us , allowing the teacher uninterrupted periods of time for working with individuals and groups .
2 In any case , the proper limits of time for the question should not be exceeded .
3 The hon. Member for Denton and Reddish ( Mr. Bennett ) suggested that we need to ensure a proper amount of time for outside organisations to lobby the House .
4 The manager produces a whole hospital work-level profile for specific periods of time for a 7-day period .
5 Post-Darwinian geologists had assigned vast tracts of time for the operations of forces still believed by us to have shaped the Earth ; but they were challenged on the grounds that thermodynamics could demonstrate that the Sun and the Earth could not be much more than fifty million years old .
6 fourteen sort of an an average sort of time for puberty
7 A presidential decree , reported in full in Rossiskaya gazeta of June 18 , allowed state enterprises which failed to pay their debts to the state and to private creditors within three months to be declared bankrupt and either liquidated or auctioned off to the highest bidder for a limited period of time for independent management ( the new managers to be treated as owners , but debarred from dismissing more than 30 per cent of the work force ) .
8 If you know from experience that you are the over-anxious type you must take yourself firmly in hand and allot a fixed ration of time for revision , the rest of the day being spent in healthy exercise .
9 It would be a poor sort of immortality , however , because any personal concept of time for the astronaut would almost certainly come to an end as he was torn apart inside the black hole !
10 The radioactive decay , through which a radionuclide loses half its radioactivity , is a fixed length of time for each element , and is referred to as the half-life of a substance .
11 I shall therefore discuss the psychological arrow of time for computers .
12 4 In consideration of the above payments the Publisher will be entitled to distribute the Video worldwide and for an unlimited period of time for non-broadcast use only and to use any still photographs in any books published to accompany the Video or in any publicity or promotion material for the Video and accompanying books .
13 4 In consideration of the above payments the Publisher will be entitled to distribute the Video worldwide and for an unlimited period of time for non-broadcast use only and to use any still photographs in any books published to accompany the Video or in any publicity or promotion material for the Video and accompanying books .
14 Four elements of the specification are of particular importance here : a statement of aims relating to the education of individual pupils , and to the preparation for life after school ; a statement of objectives in terms of skills , attitudes , concepts and knowledge ; a balanced allocation of time for the eight areas of experience ; and methods of teaching and learning which will achieve the objectives .
15 ‘ I can hardly be expected to have a great deal of time for gardening , ’ she said , ‘ I am forced to pay out money for gardening help . ’
16 Her father had always had a great deal of time for the Sally Ann .
17 His nature had been over-mature and he had been focused so much on his career that he had never had a great deal of time for his family .
18 ‘ It has certainly taken a great deal of time for myself and the other ten or so members of our committee .
19 Our piloting suggests that there is very little information here which could not be filled in out of the heads of appropriate teachers on these courses , so filling in the questionnaire should not cost a great deal of time for each person .
20 The latter was more likely ; he did not seem to have a great deal of time for God .
21 It took a good deal of time for me and it to get together .
22 Teachers often report that they completely switch off at the beginning of the holidays , or sleep for abnormally long periods of time for several days .
23 Following notification by the Seller to the Purchaser of such cause , the Seller shall be allowed a reasonable extension of time for the performance of its obligations .
24 Rougier J. held that , before the seizure the buyer had already had the car a reasonable length of time for trying it out generally .
25 The court heard that Mr Prescott , 28 , and his teammates Bernard Bryan , Colin Osbourne Wright and Jacqueline Watson used the drugs only for short periods of time for training in the run-up to a major event .
26 The court heard that Mr Prescott , 28 , and his teammates Bernard Bryan , Colin Osbourne Wright and Jaqueline Watson used the drugs only for short periods of time for training in the run-up to a major event , as is common .
27 Substantial doubts had been raised by the difficultly of Coleman 's having committed the crime in the short space of time for which he had no alibi on the night of the murder , and by numerous statements gathered after the trial attesting that another resident of the small town of Grundy had boasted of having committed the crime .
28 Historically , evolution has been a process of radiation , with a considerable amount of time for lines to have diverged having elapsed since the first mammals appeared ( Figure 2.1 ) .
29 It would have taken a considerable amount of time for any Government taking over their shambolic performance to improve the quality of just about everything in the environment , as we have been doing .
30 The second cause for concern is the sheer length of time for which the parties seem to continue .
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