Example sentences of "[prep] time this " in BNC.
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| 1 | He observed normal development of the egg even though the number of times this occurred was much reduced . |
| 2 | And I can , the number of times this has happened to me with school video machines |
| 3 | In a continuous form instead of just setting a binary link here we actually count the number of times this particular line is set to one . |
| 4 | She were on about Graham , she 's seen him loads of times this week . |
| 5 | The allegation was that she did not do enough to help her , and over a period of time this had made the carer extremely angry , and at the same time made their mother dissatisfied about the care she was receiving . |
| 6 | The purpose of an underlay ( or padding ) is to protect the rug from being squeezed between two hard surfaces , because over a period of time this kind of pressure can damage the fibres . |
| 7 | I do realize out of time this so erm I 'd like to just g erm go through the profit loss for one year quite quickly . |
| 8 | Cos you could get there and there could be a four o'clock there and you might think oh my God what a waste of time this is . |
| 9 | bloody waste of time this was I did n't get any business out of it or er I did well out of this |
| 10 | Mm and old Bob down the road , Bob , he has n't been in for about the same sort of time this 'll be his fourth week wo n't it ? |
| 11 | However with time this subsided and never once have the boots given my blisters . |
| 12 | This may occur at the exposed soil surface as raindrops selectively erode fine clay particles , leaving heavier sand particles : with time this process can affect deeper parts of the soil profile , impairing its water-retaining capacity to such an extent that even after agriculture has been abandoned the forest may be unable to recolonise . |
| 13 | In time this may bring improved relationships between company and the community and between employer and employees . |
| 14 | Students of the College called themselves veterinary surgeons , and in time this became an accepted designation . |
| 15 | In time this will lead to the development of faults . |
| 16 | In time this led to resentment , especially among the growing educated group who felt the arrogance of the British most directly . |
| 17 | From time to time this can be very beautiful but because there is a lack of continuity in the dance movement from one picture to the next , the resultant work often appears static . |
| 18 | ( It is easiest to time this by tape recording a guided meditation which includes the 33 second technique . ) |
| 19 | When I discover from time to time this tiny book tucked away in my bookcases , I happily peruse it again and always find something , perhaps unnoticed before , which leads me into deeper and more silent meditation . |
| 20 | It appears that from time to time this magazine published supplements and one such example , featuring aviation , went under the title The Bright Boys Album of Aeroplanes . |
| 21 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 22 | Despite the hard words exchanged across the Chamber from time to time this evening , it is plain that there is complete agreement on both sides of the House that those who arrive here with a well-founded fear of persecution should find a safe haven . |
| 23 | If she 'd been born on time this party would n't have happened until Christmas . |
| 24 | This sense of the need to depart from the past was reinforced by a prevailing sense of gloom in certain intellectual quarters about the city ; over time this informed the professions of architecture and town planning in particular . |
| 25 | At times this caused quite a scuffle , especially when we tried to insist on lumping several together and pretending that the result was a nation , albeit a federal one — rather in the same way as the parliamentary managers of the eighteenth century used to bribe Scottish peers by the batch , half a dozen or a dozen at a time . |
| 26 | At times this anti-realism took the form of an extreme nominalism , according to which the words ‘ man ’ and ‘ triangle ’ are general only in that they are used of a number of different things . |
| 27 | At times this took the sophisticated form of explaining contradictions between biblical texts at the literal , historical level as being deliberately placed there by the divine author to teach the point that a deeper meaning lies beyond the literal sense . |
| 28 | But at times this urgency verged on desperation as we were told by Tookey that the film ‘ utterly fails to convince ’ ; by Frank Johnson that ‘ its politics are so plainly antediluvian ’ ; by Pearce that ‘ you could n't take a single thing seriously ’ . |
| 29 | ( At times this was the result of rather haphazard planning , at times the result of extensive planning , for example with pre-licentiate courses . ) |
| 30 | They were sometimes accompanied by Wordsworth 's daughter Dora , who to some extent replaced Dorothy after her illness ; at times this must have seemed like a re-enactment of the earlier years , when Dorothy , William and Coleridge were inseparable . |