Example sentences of "[adv] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any event , this is very much a time to gain new qualifications and add to you overall knowledge . |
| 2 | What took place towards the very end of March should have made you realise that this is very much a time to hold you fire when dealing with important professional issues . |
| 3 | ( 3 ) When looking at clauses which require compliance with time limits ( eg a time limit for notifying a warranty claim after a defect is discovered in goods supplied under the contract ) the question to ask is whether the time limit has been imposed from a genuine need to protect the other party 's position , or whether it is there to make it difficult , or practically impossible , for the other party to exercise its rights under the clause . |
| 4 | Too long a time with any one of the above steps of the sequence would only serve to emphasise their ignorance , whereas variety offers opportunity for different kinds of engagement . |
| 5 | The new Act abolished the old method of arranging with creditors by a deed of composition , assignment or otherwise ‘ which has for so long a time disgraced our law ’ . |
| 6 | How long a time ? ’ |
| 7 | Is three years too long a time , particularly for males in their 40s ? |
| 8 | The children of the Indians are saved , to be sold or given away as servants , or rather slaves for as long a time as the owners can make them believe themselves slaves . |
| 9 | So much peace and plenty , for so long a time . |
| 10 | Or it may be that you are not introducing enough variety in your activities , either always doing things in the same few ways , or else doing the same activity for too long a time at one stretch . |
| 11 | He held her in his arms , still and warm , and after a while in that darkness he felt as though he held nothing at all ; it was like when a limb , having been left in the same position for too long a time , somehow loses all reference to the body , and for those instants before some willed movement the very location and attitude of that arm or leg is quite unknown . |
| 12 | It was , wrote the best-known and most influential of them , the Abbe de Saint-Pierre , ‘ that vain Idol to which the Nations have Sacrificed so blindly , so fruitlessly , and for so long a Time , so much Blood and Treasure ’ . |
| 13 | I mean , after so long a time . |
| 14 | In an article in Nature , Susan Solomon and Daniel Albritton of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration argue that policy makers may have been using too long a time scale to measure the destructive potential of CFCs , halons and their substitutes . |
| 15 | Obviously there are other aspects of intelligent behaviour , some of which Bali may discourage ; perhaps a time will come when he tells himself ‘ I 've run away from a big world to a little one , I was wrong ’ . |
| 16 | When cΔt exceeds Δr , the interval is positive and P 2 can be reached from P 1 by travelling at a velocity less than the speed of light ; the interval is called time-like because we can choose an inertial frame such that r 1 = r 2 leaving only a time separation between the two events . |
| 17 | But this was no longer a time for words . |
| 18 | As a result , it was almost 20 years before I managed as slow a time as 13.3 again . |
| 19 | Though adolescence is generally a time of intense sociability. it can also often be a time of intense loneliness . |
| 20 | ‘ Not exactly a time to go visiting , lass ! ’ that lady had said with a sigh . |
| 21 | Gibeau felt that we had had too easy a time of it at Canjuers and for the last three days introduced a new punishment . |
| 22 | I am giving Gittel-plus-nine much too easy a time . |
| 23 | I have not included in this estimate any involvement by us in assisting your lawyers with the preparation of the contract and disclosure letter which is usually a time consuming exercise . |
| 24 | In practice , the average is usually a time average ; one observes and averages the velocity at a point over a period long enough for separate measurements to give effectively the same result . |
| 25 | A fact especially true of ‘ Commitment ’ , always a time for Robin 's sorrowful unshackling . |
| 26 | Given the complexity of this task there is always a time lag in the publication of mortality by cause of death data . |
| 27 | The teens and twenties are always a time for questioning , evaluating , making up your own mind , finding your own sense of person . |
| 28 | It is always a time of celebration . |
| 29 | There 's always a time she might be able to exchange |
| 30 | That was still a time when serious writing was impossible , so I began to translate , mainly English , American and German novels and short story collections . |