Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the afternoon had been more or less normal for the time of year except that Ted had been following Pete around for most of it , trying to pump him for details of what had happened between him and Diane Jackson . |
| 2 | The glucose level was normal for the time of day , and everyone was pleased . |
| 3 | The temperature will rise to a maximum of about nine degrees Celsius , about normal for the time of year . |
| 4 | Sales volumes in May were up on a year ago for the fifth month in a row but they remained well below normal for the time of year , he said . |
| 5 | Motor traders reported a small fall in sales in the year to May following five months of growth , but business remained below normal for the time of year . |
| 6 | Shop sales grew again in May , but the upturn was relatively modest with sales still well below normal for the time of year . |
| 7 | The survey indicates that sales volumes are up , but they still remain below what retailers would consider to be normal for the time of year . ’ |
| 8 | Make the most of British pork because prices are low for the time of year . |
| 9 | But nevertheless it 's im important to remember that this is a survey erm which is conducted at the time of year when most compan or many companies raise their list prices and if one looks at the past sort of record of this survey both at the regional level and the national level , one generally does see a bit of an upturn in the pr in the prices numbers at this time of year because people are raising their list prices erm and once you allow for that erm I think these numbers are er very good in terms of prices trends , very low for the time of year . |
| 10 | A spokesman said the workload is unusually high for the time of year . |
| 11 | The TAGH solution ( 9 ml ) was made up fresh at the time of the experiment and infused by the tail vein from 20 ml hyperdermic syringes mounted in horizontal syringe pumps set to deliver 3 ml/h . |
| 12 | Package APCK3 and all its modules were offline at the time of the listing . |
| 13 | As Bishop Thomas Brinton of Rochester said when preaching at the time of the Black Prince 's death in the summer of 1376 , it was part of a knight 's duty to help his king in time of war ; failure to do so meant loss of the right to be called a knight , which was both a sign of honour and a mark of responsibility which had to be lived up to . |
| 14 | They offer a good deal if interest rates , high at the time of purchase , subsequently fall . |
| 15 | Contrary to assessments made by the British at the time of signing , there are many examples of these . |
| 16 | However , said Mr Hardy , the road was wet at the time of the accident and the officer 's report said the speed involved was probably ‘ only marginally excessive ’ . |
| 17 | But as far as that 's concerned , er I mean the , the house can be passed over to you , and would then become , er you would own the house but er unless you dispose of it , there 'd be no liability to a gain , and er of course , at that time er if your parents in it rent free at the time of their er leaving the house , then you could then dispose of that without erm erm er liability . |
| 18 | One of the children taken from this family was only six months old at the time of removal . |
| 19 | He was 38 years old at the time of this raid . |
| 20 | He was 60 years old at the time of Messines , with wide and varied military service behind him , including fighting in South Africa during the Boer War ( 1899–1902 ) , when he played a distinguished part in the relief of Mafeking . |
| 21 | ( 15 years old at the time of writing ) Runner-up for the 1991 BBC WILDLIFE Magazine Award for Young Writers ( aged 13–17 ) |
| 22 | He had been ten years old at the time of Herbert 's wedding ; his name was Max Beerbohm ; the story is recounted in Lord David Cecil 's Max , A Biography ; the date was 1882 , and sillabub , added Max , was then his favourite dish . |
| 23 | Ealhfrith must have been about 20 years old at the time of the battle of the Winwaed , after which he became king of Deira , taking over the former territory of his cousin , Oethelwald . |
| 24 | Playfair married Jessie Graham , and their children included the well-known Scottish architect William Henry Playfair [ q.v. ] , who was only three years old at the time of his father 's death . |
| 25 | However , there are difficulties with latent defects , for example , characteristics not known to be harmful at the time of delivery , or immunities to harmful substances being subsequently discovered . |
| 26 | There is also a transient expression of c -fos , but only if the animal is unanaesthetised at the time of induction , suggesting that the c- fos protein is necessary for the generation of the most persistent form of LTP ( LTP3 ; see Box 1 ) . |
| 27 | LTP can be tentatively subdivided into several mechanistically distinct components : LTP1 , with a duration of less than 3–6h which is blocked by kinase inhibitors but not by protein synthesis inhibitors ; LTP2 , a component which is blocked by translational inhibitors but which appears to be independent of gene expression ; and LTP3 , with a time constant of several days , which is only obtained if the animal is unanaesthetised at the time of induction and which may require gene expression ( see text ) . |
| 28 | A longitudinal study by John Fox and Peter Goldblatt of City University , London , showed that men unemployed at the time of the 1971 census were much more likely to have died over the subsequent four years . |
| 29 | While 42 ( 69 per cent ) interviewees had worked at some time or other , the overwhelming majority ( 89 per cent ) were unemployed at the time of interview . |
| 30 | Teenage mothers are more likely than older mothers to have an unstable family background , to have poor or no educational qualifications , and to be unemployed at the time of conception ( Wells , 1983 ) . |