Example sentences of "[prep] time for " in BNC.

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1 Adjust your times so that your ETA at the holding point coincides with a time based on your last acknowledged position report , and flight plan for times for each section of the route .
2 The following year , after time for reflection , the issue was put to the vote .
3 This sense of deprivation has spilled over into civil conflict or war a sufficient number of times for it to be a continuing threat , or an on-going reality as in Chad , Sudan , Ethiopia , Burundi , Uganda and Somalia .
4 THESE are the best of times for Moody 's and Standard & Poor 's ( S&P ) , the two American companies that dominate the world business of rating government and corporate debt .
5 These may not be the best of times for the venture capital industry , but they are far from disastrous .
6 Those nerve-racking hours , with the armies drawn up in battle array in sight of each other , can hardly have been the best of times for a calm discussion of the problem of the succession .
7 Of medium height , he was known as a dresser and had been tipped a couple of times for those best-dressed men lists .
8 She took her time over it , waiting until she was sure no one wanted to use the bathroom , and going downstairs a couple of times for drinks and stories with Sylvia .
9 Having stopped a couple of times for refreshment , Fabia returned to her hotel around six o'clock , and realised that she had found Mariánské Láznë quite enchanting .
10 Colin French has already been convicted dozens of times for cruelty .
11 At Southend the worst of times for Oxford … but nothing and nobody is ever going to stop goals like these …
12 ‘ It 's not been the best of times for us result-wise recently which makes it an even better performance . ’
13 I 've wore it a couple of times for .
14 ‘ It was past time for me to win a big one like this and play an aggressive final round . ’
15 Tutilo started and shook himself , and took an unexpectedly long moment to think before he answered : ‘ It was late , past time for Compline when I started . ’
16 Finally , duration is correlated with the period of time for which the relevant neurones are active .
17 The length of time for these processes to occur is very short ( up to 6 seconds ) .
18 The second cause for concern is the sheer length of time for which the parties seem to continue .
19 But Fisher raised the question of time for study and writing .
20 The most common period of time for this sort of agreement is three or four years , and the advances payable should reflect this .
21 Ironically , fate intervened and he never did make that his career , which is probably just as well , since when he was given the task many years later of steering British Aerospace into the private sector he crossed swords with more than a few civil servants and did n't have a lot of time for them .
22 It left plenty of time for shopping and meeting friends , two of her passions .
23 DECADES make convenient units of time for historians , sociologists and pundits of every stripe , but the people who live and work through them do n't share the same enthusiasm for tying everything into bundles or stopping precisely at midnight on December 31 .
24 Accountants Touche Ross asked for an extension of time for the filing of a ‘ monitoring return ’ giving details of Barlow Clowes ' finances which was due by the end of that month .
25 It was not as I had expected at all because living in the kind of commune that Mary Finnigan 's house was , there was n't a lot of time for romance .
26 He thinks it is a waste of time for foreigners to try to help change things in Central America .
27 I 've got a lot of time for … personnel … track record … . ’
28 It s going to take a bit of time for the factories to dole us out some more .
29 ‘ Plenty of time for practice . ’
30 Last year she had a lovely crop from her plot , which measures about 2ft by 3ft ; this year she dug it over in plenty of time for May 4 , the day on which she sows on the basis of an old saying : ‘ the 4th of May is kidney bean day ’ .
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