Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] time " in BNC.

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1 After an opening sample of Bob Hoskins from The Long Good Friday , ‘ Killing Season ’ sees Gunshot calling time on their fellow UK crews .
2 Some junior school Heads think it is a waste of good scholarship studying time .
3 Firstly NUPE has never had difficulty with Northumberland County Council getting time off for anyone .
4 Every extra mile is charged at about 10 pence , and there is a 30 pence an hour waiting time .
5 in Hungary it produced one of the performances , completing five laps in pre-qualifying , the best of which was 23.5secs slower than Thierry Boutsen 's pole winning time .
6 GPTV director David Hahn said : ‘ The average waiting time in GPs ' surgeries is 30 minutes .
7 The proportion of those on remand , that is , being held prior to trial or sentence , was 14.5 per cent in 1979 but in 1988 had grown to 23 per cent , with the average waiting time for trial at the Crown Court also increasing .
8 Although delays are far from negligible even in magistrates ' courts , the problem is particularly acute in relation to Crown Courts where the average waiting time for those denied bail is around ten weeks from committal to trial .
9 The average waiting time for a routine appointment in a urological outpatient clinic was 7.4 ( range 3–36 ) months and for a non-urgent prostatectomy 21 ( 9–36 ) months , and the situation in Wales was slightly worse than in the United Kingdom as a whole .
10 The average waiting time for trial at Crown Court was 56 days in 1989 , and in that year remand prisoners made up just over one-fifth of the average prison population .
11 A written reply last week confirmed that the average waiting time between the making of an application and the first visit or inspection is about nine weeks .
12 The average waiting time in here is nearly an hour .
13 The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year .
14 The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year .
15 Until recently , the Loaches usually appeared at morning feeding time and then disappeared into a large bogwood cave , which has several exits and entrances , reappearing after lights out and sometimes during the evening .
16 Well , it is summertime and if you have trouble getting time on the courts here in town and tripping to the Hamptons presents a problem why not simply go to Terry Dintenfass where the witty William King he of the loopy lanky aluminoids has set up a gallery-wide installation called ‘ Tennis : The Monument ’ ?
17 We do n't have any trouble getting time to study because everyone wants the same thing — to do well .
18 ( iii ) By the interrelationship of the rent review clause and other clauses in the lease The classic case of the interrelationship of the rent review clause and other clauses in the lease making time of the essence is a case where the tenant has an option to determine the term by the service of a break notice .
19 But it should be made clear that any time limit within which the landlord is to act is to be of the essence , otherwise the contractual notice will be ineffective except as a preliminary to the service of yet another notice making time of the essence ( Phipps-Faire Ltd v Malbern Construction Ltd [ 1987 ] 1 EGLR 129 although this relaxed approach has not been taken in Scotland ( Visionhire v Britel Fund Trustees [ 1992 ] 1 EGLR 128 ) .
20 Where either party may apply the tenant is not entitled to serve notice making time of the essence of the landlord 's right to apply : if he is prejudiced by delay his remedy is to make the application himself ( Factory Holdings Group Ltd v Leboff International Ltd [ 1987 ] 1 EGLR 135 ) .
21 Above that , and also circular , was a complicated sphere measuring time and showing earth , moon and sun between the signs of the zodiac .
22 An impressive set of performances , then , though at a total playing time of less than 57 minutes it should surely have been possible to fit in another item .
23 Erich Kunzel and the Rochester Pops Orchestra makes a good job of Candide , but then disaster strikes : over 28 minutes ( out of a total playing time of less than 62 ) is devoted to a certain ‘ Promenade Orchestra ’ , conducted by Alfred Gehardt , in some of the naffest arrangements of five numbers from West End Story that you 're ever likely to hear .
24 The tenant 's adviser should , therefore delete from the draft any provision making time of the essence in relation to the service of a counternotice ; or he should delete the entire requirement to serve a counternotice .
25 He may derive some support from the statement of Templeman LJ in Amalgamated Estates Ltd v Joystretch Manufacturing Ltd : I think it is a great pity that any landlord should require , or that any tenant should accept , a provision making time of the essence when the consequences are so onerous .
26 The provision making time of the essence will enable the buyer to cancel the contract for breach , without notice , if the seller does not deliver exactly in accordance with the contract .
27 These high-performance , rugged tools are claimed to offer the best value for money on the market for the enthusiastic d-i-yer and tradesman , and for the first time offer the possibility of a battery recharging time of just a quarter of an hour .
28 So the generally-applied killing time , regardless of the method to be used by sportsmen , is in the period from August to April — when the rabbits are more mature as a stock and also at their most numerous .
29 This should never be done in one go , especially with a new aquarium , but in four or five stages allowing at least half an hour settling time after each stage .
30 Editor , — Catherine Pope is wrong when she states that the patient 's charter promises patients a maximum outpatient waiting time of 30 minutes .
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