Example sentences of "of time in [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Stotherts have invested a great deal of time in their house . |
| 2 | This results in a shortening of the average duration of time in which families live as a nuclear group and an increase in the phase of the life cycle in which the couple live alone post-child rearing — the empty nest phase . |
| 3 | First , there is the thermodynamic arrow of time , the direction of time in which disorder or entropy increases . |
| 4 | And why is the direction of time in which disorder increases the same as that in which the universe expands ? |
| 5 | They are the thermodynamic arrow , the direction of time in which disorder increases ; the psychological arrow , the direction of time in which we remember the past and not the future ; and the cosmological arrow , the direction of time in which the universe expands rather than contracts . |
| 6 | This guarantee covers the period of time in which defects will be remedied , the procedure that the buyer must go through in order to take advantage of the guarantee , and the remedies which the seller offers in respect of the defects . |
| 7 | It is far better for the buyer and the seller to avoid all these arguments by providing for an express period of time in which defects will be remedied . |
| 8 | When you spend a bit of time in her company you suspect it might have something to do with her outgoing nature and rare charm . |
| 9 | It seems that the length of time in them answering reflects the fact that all these sort of pollution inspectorates and Health and Safety Executives are understaffed . |
| 10 | You spend a lot of time in your garden , I know , planting , digging . |
| 11 | ‘ When I 'm all done here I 'll be spending a lot of time in your world . |
| 12 | He spent a great deal of time in his efforts certainly for this trade union and in recruitment where he works , he 's made it not hundred percent , hundred and ten percent and is constantly , er , recruiting constantly recruiting . |
| 13 | According to West European diplomats in Managua , President Daniel Ortega is running out of time in his attempts to present himself to the Nicaraguan electorate on February 25 as the ‘ peace maker ’ who ended the contra war . |
| 14 | He spent a good deal of time in his satires , presenting himself as a satirist — unplaced , unpensioned , no man 's heir or slave he proudly describes himself as he tells us that he 's willing to lash out at even the most eminent public figures . |
| 15 | Despite all this external activity he spent long periods of time in his diocese , active in every facet of ecclesiastical administration , as is revealed by his register , the first to survive for the diocese of Winchester . |
| 16 | Joanna said , ‘ I had an uncle — he 's dead now , but I used to spend a lot of time in his surgery — and , apart from the essentials , he never went in for what he called expensive gimmicks . |
| 17 | He kept his ear to the ground and he spent a lot of time in his office after hours . |
| 18 | He spent a lot of time in his study engaged in the writing of some mysterious work . |
| 19 | Most of Rory 's pals in London were in the International Marxist Croup , but here he was ; wandering the hills with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister and who lived for huntin' , shootin' and fishin' ( and seemed to spend the absolute minimum amount of time in his castle with his wife ) , and who had just last year rationalised half the work force in the glass factory out of a job . |
| 20 | Body language is with us night and day but something else which takes up a fair amount of time in our lives is travel . |
| 21 | How can we draw valid conclusions from such an instant of time in our planet 's history about mountains and weather which were here long before and will be long after us ? |