Example sentences of "[noun] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Jordan 's fantasy series The Wheel Of Time has a growing band of fans , who will enjoy his latest , THE DRAGON REBORN ( Orbit £5.99 ) . |
| 2 | At a time when his life was unsettled and the future uncertain , he returns to the world of his childhood and , in the course of the poem , meditates upon the need for release from the wheel of time itself , " the trailing/Consequence of further days and hours " . |
| 3 | Robert Jordan 's Wheel of Time series keeps on turning , getting bigger and bigger with each title ; the A format of The Shadow Rising ( Orbit , £5.99 ) , comes the month , number four , and a big seller in hardcover . |
| 4 | And he has n't had building inspections at the right sorts of times . |
| 5 | So in the same village , there would be two different sorts of time . |
| 6 | Plato 's intimate association of time and the universe led him to regard time as being actually produced by the revolutions of the celestial sphere . |
| 7 | In place of Aristotle 's association of time with motion and his appeal to the uniform daily revolution of the heavens as its basis , St Augustine turned , not as Plotinus had done to the concept of the ‘ world-soul ’ , but to the human mind for the ultimate source and standard of time . |
| 8 | Consequently , as Needham has pointed out , in so far as Chinese natural philosophy ‘ was committed to thinking of time in separate compartments or boxes , perhaps it was more difficult for a Galileo to arise who should uniformise time into an abstract geometrical co-ordinate , a continuous dimension amenable to mathematical handling ’ . |
| 9 | But a subtle critic may well save us a great deal of time , pain and trouble in the learning , for he can set us aright at the outset , and by his example rather than by his assertions show us how to avoid admiring that which is unworthy . |
| 10 | Because my plants are packed in so tightly I spend a great deal of time trimming and tying . |
| 11 | Like the artists in La Boheme , Aggie and Sprugg — Deverell 's two winos - spend a good deal of time play-acting , in an operative sort of way . |
| 12 | Compared to political leaders in other states , British Prime Ministers spend a good deal of time in the legislature . |
| 13 | The Stotherts have invested a great deal of time in their house . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course , all this takes a great deal of time and money . |
| 15 | What Charles said in major speeches which he put a great deal of time and thought into , seldom went farther than the four walls he spoke within . |
| 16 | Soon this mood of despair evaporated under the influence of serene letters from Helen , who flourished among the intimate circle of artistic Bohemian young people — including the poet Charles Dalmon and the actor Franklin Dyall — who lived in Hammersmith and spent a great deal of time at Mrs Logan 's large house which had been furnished and decorated in William Morris style . |
| 17 | In his school career , Gazzer had given a great deal of time , energy , and thought to getting round various people , to making sure that they did not take out their boredom , frustration or spite on him , the most obvious victim , the smallest and puniest boy in the class . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
| 20 | I spent a great deal of time and study on it , over half a year , before I was ready to conduct it . |
| 21 | It will certainly take a great deal of time . |
| 22 | We spent a great deal of time familiarizing ourselves with the music by playing it at subscription concerts and youth concerts . |
| 23 | But she also spends a great deal of time walking and studying , in the day , at night . |
| 24 | She said carrying the water up from the well had taken a great deal of time which , when I saw her filling the bucket , I was not surprised since she lowered the rope slow enough to make me fall asleep watching . |
| 25 | Finally he would spend a great deal of time in preparing people for membership and in visiting members although here he could be helped by the deacons and stewards . |
| 26 | Another form of game which has become popular among teachers other than drama teachers has been ‘ simulation ’ , where elaborate game structures are set up usually involving a great deal of time and application in order to teach some specific subject-matter about the civic planning of motorways , starvation in the Third World or executive decision-making in industry . |
| 27 | The old male remains loosely attached to the harem and spends a great deal of time caring for his infants . |
| 28 | Arthur Bennett was a builder and house decorator , living in Croydon , England , who devoted a great deal of time and energy to the study of the Scottish flora . |
| 29 | The problem is that since West Germany also spies on its neighbour , a great deal of time is taken up with swopping convicted spies back and forth across the border . |
| 30 | Her father had always had a great deal of time for the Sally Ann . |