Example sentences of "[prep] the mean time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major problem with early computers was the question of reliability ; pessimistic forecasts were made of the mean time to failure of assemblies of several thousand valves , and a prime consideration in designing a computer was to make it as simple as possible . |
| 2 | But in the mean time , whose hand has Granovsky escaped from ? |
| 3 | If the verderers ( or their heirs , if the verderers had died in the mean time ) failed to present their rolls to the judges on the first day of the Forest Eyre , or if their rolls were deficient in any material particular , they were liable to amercement . |
| 4 | In the mean time , the Forest administration was to be carried on as usual . |
| 5 | Many offenders had died in the mean time , and the sheriff failed to produce others , so that the sessions were adjourned time and time again during the next few years . |
| 6 | His mother in the mean time was summoned to London ( some say Windsor ) for an audience with the Queen . |
| 7 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 8 | In the mean time the practical farmer must get on with his husbandry , relying on his limited knowledge and a great deal of intuitive instinct . |
| 9 | This was no easy matter , it being a crumbly cheese — My mother however did it — I went into the garden for something or other , and in the mean time my Brother Frank minced my cheese , ‘ to disappoint the favorite ’ . |
| 10 | The miserable mummy was to stay above ground for many more years yet ; in the mean time it remained an object of spectacle . |
| 11 | In the mean time , however , the attempts to introduce Oral Rehydration Therapy to the people of Bangladesh may be regarded as a partial success , from which lessons can be learnt . |
| 12 | In the mean time , if he so desires , Ivanisevic can exploit the green , green grass of SW19 to its fullest advantage . |
| 13 | In the mean time , the company says it will continue to invest in product development — research costs amounted to 8% of its half year turnover — and is looking to branch out into what it calls new ‘ product identification ’ technologies . |
| 14 | In the mean time , HM Systems has recently launched a new range of upgradable , modular notebooks that can take 66MHz 80486DX2 chips . |
| 15 | A significant deterioration in cognitive function was defined as two or more consecutive increments of 5% or more in the mean time taken for a correct response and of 2% or more in the error rate with the last of the five euglycaemic test scores used as baseline . |
| 16 | But in the mean time , encouraged perhaps by such apparent signs of weakness , perhaps simply by pressure on their order-books , the Edinburgh master printers began recruiting girl apprentices in larger numbers than ever before during the early years of the century , to the growing despair of the ETS and increasing anger from the male trade-union movement in general . |
| 17 | It happens erm I 've handled a case myself where shares were valued at a particular amount on the death and er in due course they needed to be sold as part of the administration unfortunately they 'd gone down er a fair amount in the mean time . |
| 18 | In the first study four of the 26 subjects with symptomatic infections had influenza B and showed a 38% increase in the mean time taken for the variable fore period simple reaction time task , from 320 ( SD 24 ) ms when recruited to 440 ( SD 90 ) ms when symptomatic . |
| 19 | We will continue to from two three we will continue to dig the foundations in the mean time we hope the concrete the concrete will be arriving on site to complete those footings . |
| 20 | In the mean time , some of his lands had been occupied and doubtless protected by royalist kinsmen — by Roger de Clifford and by William de Beauchamp of Elmley [ q.v. ] , who had married one of Fitzjohn 's sisters . |
| 21 | In the mean time Dr Santiago Sequeira , the hospital 's director , has been fighting his own revolution , battling against incredible odds to humanize the physical environment of the hospital and improve the general quality of patient care . |
| 22 | In the mean time , thanks Russell for an entertaining hour . |
| 23 | However , a preservation society had been formed in the mean time to come to am arrangement with the Company to secure its future operation . |
| 24 | Additional programming would be needed to permit ( a ) the real train timetable to be entered and used by the program and ( b ) changes in the mean time between vehicles to take place at hourly or half-hourly intervals throughout the day to allow a closer representation of reality . |
| 25 | In the mean time laparoscopic cholecystectomy has rapidly become a popular method . |
| 26 | In the mean time many issues , separately or in conjunction , continued to keep the lines busy between Washington and London , a point regularly noted by Crossman . |
| 27 | But in the mean time my wages I 've had last week have been spent |