Example sentences of "very [adj] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our approaches were from very different angles in time and geography but almost identical in impression . |
| 2 | In the early universe , in which there is a very marked arrow of time given by the expansion , these interactions could produce more particles than antiparticles . |
| 3 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 4 | Polymeric materials are noticeably different from other materials ( metals , ceramics ) in the very large dependence upon time and temperature of virtually all their physical properties . |
| 5 | Cotswold Wildlife Park aspires to show animals to people — so that they can come to understand and respect all forms of wildlife ; to understand what is special about each species , and how the various species have evolved and adapted over very long periods of time , adjusting and changing to survive in habitats from many parts of the earth . |
| 6 | Therefore , it is dangerous to try to explain present-day landforms merely by the operation of present processes of erosion acting over very long periods of time . |
| 7 | For , despite acquiring a mass of archival material stretching over a very long period of time , the Chinese never developed anything corresponding to the modern Western concept of history . |
| 8 | The fact that it is very difficult to do does n't prevent a lot of people wishing to achieve it , but it is very seldom that , in the industrial world , anybody has achieved and held continuously a pre-eminent position over a very long period of time . |
| 9 | Fact : The authors have chosen here to quote undiscounted and out-of-date figures although they make much play of discount rates elsewhere in their article and must be aware that the decommissioning costs concerned arise over a very long period of time stretching to the end of the twenty-first century and beyond . |
| 10 | One possibility would be a statutory reformulation of Rylands v. Fletcher shorn of the qualifications and defences which so emasculate it now , perhaps on the lines of the Restatement , which imposes strict liability on one who carries on an ‘ abnormally dangerous activity , ’ but this would be open to varying judicial inclinations and would give rise to considerable uncertainty for a very long period of time . |
| 11 | One , for example , oh five , six years ago , perhaps more , time passes so quickly erm on the Lewes to Wych Cross road , closed the road at Dane Hill for a very long period of time , while the road was completely reconstructed . |
| 12 | Which is not perhaps a very good use of time . |
| 13 | Since do evokes the very taking place in time of the infinitive 's event , it is obvious that it can not be conceived as arising prior to the latter , i.e. as constituting a before-position with respect to this event . |
| 14 | In my view , accuracy can only be assured over very short periods of time , after which the refereeing panel must receive a proper rest . |
| 15 | Their specialism is in lending and borrowing for very short periods of time from one day to up to about three months . |
| 16 | The whole flat , and the garden , within a very short space of time , was wired for sound and you would come in , perhaps in the middle of the night , and fall flat on your face over and leads and God knows what . |
| 17 | She 's only 21 and she 's crammed a lot into a very short space of time . ’ |
| 18 | One vulture sighting carrion below unintentionally informs all others of its availability by swooping downwards , and thus dozens of vultures arrive at the scene of an animal kill in a very short space of time . |
| 19 | Pilgrims come now in their millions — two million by air in a very short space of time . |
| 20 | The stitching can go rotten in a very short space of time and remember when you start the cross country course , ride with confidence or do not start ! |
| 21 | In a very short space of time she would have her feet under the table and those huge jaws would be munching their way into the breast . |
| 22 | In a very short space of time — just a few decades — the industrial moths had gone through a small but distinct evolutionary step . |
| 23 | At the age of thirty-four he met and married within a very short space of time a widow who was four years his senior . |
| 24 | The diode used must be capable of carrying the peak inductor current ; in addition , it must be able to recover from its conducting state to its blocking state in a very short space of time . |
| 25 | Not so with the GR-1 ; all of us here have sat and played it and no-one has had too much difficulty adjusting to the GR 's demands in a very short space of time . |
| 26 | The advent of satellite T.V. and the commitment of ITV to rugby coverage provides the opportunity to assess how the Australians cope with the challenges of Scotland , New Zealand and South Africa during a very short space of time . |
| 27 | They simply churned out dozens of reprints and impressions in a very short space of time to keep up with the ever growing demand by the Wallace clamouring public . |
| 28 | To this day , I still marvel at the fact that , in a country where even the most seasoned and recalcitrant dyke can be made to feel truly perverted in a very short space of time , women found , and still do find , the courage to step into the breach of difference and come out . |
| 29 | ‘ You can find out interesting things in a very short space of time , sir . |
| 30 | Unlike many jobs , housework can often be done in a very short space of time without actually failing to be done at all . |