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

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1 Of medium height , he was known as a dresser and had been tipped a couple of times for those best-dressed men lists .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 A c.c.d. delay line provides a delay because it takes a certain amount of time for each input sample to be passed along the chain of capacitors and to finally emerge at the output .
5 I never had a lot of time for good taste .
6 There 'll be plenty of time for all night parties when you 're grown up .
7 Retirement is an ideal time to take stock and consider which habits are worth acquiring , now that there is plenty of time for regular exercise and for preparing nutritious food .
8 On Workload , 2.2 — 20% of time for reactive work — add that this may have staffing implications in some cases .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 11.6 ( a ) Two-mesh circuit analysed with the aid of Laplace transformation in the text and ( b ) the solutions for I 2 and V as a function of time for certain network parameters .
12 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 ) .
13 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 .
14 Confusion and muddle resulting from mislaid books and materials involve a waste of time for any pupil , but are even more of a nuisance for one who sees poorly .
15 According to the theologian O. Cullmann in his book Christ and Time , ‘ the symbol of time for primitive Christianity as well as for Biblical Judaism … is the upward sloping line , while in Hellenism it is the circle ’ .
16 I had also been taking up quite a lot of time for public service , chairing the National Gas Consumers ' Council , and also , more relevantly , working under Richard Hoggart who was chairing the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education , which had a remit to develop national policies for education as a process continuing throughout life .
17 Still plenty of time for this game to go either way though .
18 The most common period of time for this sort of agreement is three or four years , and the advances payable should reflect this .
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