Example sentences of "time to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision by the Financial Times to back Labour for the first time since 1966 was attacked by Sir John Banham , director general of the Confederation of British Industry . |
| 2 | Their campaign reflected the uncertainties and weakness that led the Financial Times to back Labour . |
| 3 | ‘ That was a reverse of the journey we made so many times to council planning meetings , ’ said Steve Clarke , chairman of the Supporters ' Club and standing for election to the board . |
| 4 | " It having been Stated to this Meeting that a regular Ferry from Skiba to Gartbreck would contribute much to the Convenience of Travellers " they agree " to Engage a proper person , who will engage to maintain a proper Ferry Boat ready at all reasonable times to Ferry passengers … " |
| 5 | It has been a common practice since ancient times to date official documents by the year of the rulers issuing them , or from within whose jurisdiction they emanated . |
| 6 | The Supreme Council , consisting of heads of state of member governments , has met four times to date ; it is the highest policy-making body and appoints the Secretary-General ( currently Helmi Mahmud Namar ) . |
| 7 | BY BRITISH RAIL NETWORK SOUTH EAST or contact your local B.R. station for train times to Battle station . |
| 8 | This is not too difficult if there are only a few media outlets involved and if their lead times to publication are the same . |
| 9 | The mean times to ulcer healing were calculated for patients exposed to different risk factors , and the combined effects of the clinically relevant risk factors were assessed by calculating the two , four , and eight week healing rates and the mean times to healing in the presence of increasing numbers of risk factors . |
| 10 | The mean times to healing were prolonged in patients with an ulcer greater than 15 mm in diameter ( 5.0 weeks ; 95% CI 4.3 , 5.7 ) , prior slow healing ( 4.7 weeks ; 95% CI 4.4 , 5.0 ) , multiple ulcers ( 4.8 weeks ; 95% CI 4.4 , 5.2 ) , prior complications ( 4.4 weeks ; 95% CI 4.0 , 4.8 ) , and smoking ( 4.2 weeks ; 95% CI 4.0 , 4.4 ) compared with a mean healing time of 3.3 weeks ( 95% CI 3.0 , 3.5 ) in patients with none of these risk factors . |
| 11 | He invited me several times to supper at his parents ' house . |
| 12 | The circumpolar tundra and desert were reduced several times to refugia as forests expanded into them , and reconstituted into continuous zones as the forests retreated ( Lindsey , 1981 ) . |
| 13 | Convincing indications have been obtained both by human observation and animal experiments that emotional stress during pregnancy in the maternal subjects was associated with disorder ranging from emotional instability and slower reaction times to Mongolism and schizophrenia in their offspring . |
| 14 | But one act of faith has remained a constant from palaeolithic times to cubism , from Tintoretto ( who also loved comets ) to Rothko . |
| 15 | The mean times to ulcer healing were calculated for patients exposed to different risk factors , and the combined effects of the clinically relevant risk factors were assessed by calculating the two , four , and eight week healing rates and the mean times to healing in the presence of increasing numbers of risk factors . |
| 16 | It was time to rope up . |
| 17 | Treatment of glue ear considerably shortened the time to fluid resolution , combined adenoidectomy and tube insertion being better than either procedure alone . |
| 18 | Although the time spent teaching was said to be similar on most wards , the trained staff on a good ward devoted more time to supervision , practical demonstrations and participation in ward reporting sessions . |
| 19 | The mean time to treatment was 15 hours . |
| 20 | Available evidence suggests that the efficacy of coronary thrombolysis could be augmented by shortening the time to treatment , by improving of the potency and specificity of fibrin-dissolving agents , by improving co-therapy with anticoagulant and antiplatelet agents , or by a combination of all of these . |
| 21 | The evening before he had procured from the local library a copy of Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's essay in autobiography , but a quick flick through the index had assured him there was no mention of Walter Machin , and he had n't had time to bone up on the details of the man himself 's career . |
| 22 | By the end of the healing phase , 19 ( 0.99% ) of the 1923 patients who had fulfilled the entry criteria had failed to heal : the time to healing was 12 weeks in 76 patients ( 3.95% ) , 24 weeks in 29 patients ( 1.51% ) , and greater than 24 weeks in seven patients ( 0.36% ) . |
| 23 | Effect of risk factors on time to healing |
| 24 | The effect of the risk factors on the time to healing was cumulative : patients with one , two , and three or more risk factors needed progressively longer courses of treatment to achieve ulcer healing ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 25 | The effect of these factors was cumulative in that the proportion of patients unhealed at each time point and the mean time to healing increased progressively with the number of risk factors to which the patient was exposed . |
| 26 | A visit to our unique museum will transport you back in time to wartime Britain . |
| 27 | But one day Miss Havisham decided it was time to apprentice me to Joe , and told me to bring him to her house . |
| 28 | The momentary lapse gave Donna time to edge away and she pressed so hard on the accelerator she feared she might shove her foot through the very floor of the car . |
| 29 | There was n't time to edge away or even think as his mouth possessed her and his hands moved on her body , caressing it beneath the soft folds of her cotton top . |
| 30 | It blasphemed God 's goodness to declare that one day , the seventh , was holier than the other six ( the Christian Sunday was seen as the eighth day , pointing beyond time to eternity ) ; that some food or animals were clean and others unclean ; that some nations were less God 's children than others , or that a natural function , such as menstruation , made women unholy and hence unfit for contact with God . |