Example sentences of "[noun sg] from the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In France trade associations dealt both with ‘ economic ’ and ‘ social ’ matters , although , as far as industry-wide relations with trade unions were concerned , organisation among employers remained greatly underdeveloped until well after World War I. At confederal level the central ( peak ) organisation , the CNPF , also combined the functions both of an employers ' and a trade association from the time of its establishment in 1919 , as did the Confindustria in Italy . |
| 2 | Of course , it is not uncommon for alterations to be made to a side from the time it is announced until the team actually takes the field . |
| 3 | The life span of a human skin cell from the time it is born until the time it is shed is just a few weeks . |
| 4 | Ranulf thought of the Lady Agnes and moaned ; she had proved a fiery lover from the time he had first flung her on her back and lifted her lace-trimmed skirts . |
| 5 | In order that unified Germany could enjoy full sovereignty from Oct. 3 the four allies signed a document in New York on Oct. 1 suspending their " rights and responsibilities with regard to Berlin and Germany as a whole with effect from the time of unification of Germany until the coming into force of the treaty " . |
| 6 | There was a wide diversity of theories about the nature of light from the time of the ancients up to Newton . |
| 7 | She had been beaten into submission from the time she was a baby . |
| 8 | To use a popular metaphor from the time , getting out of Algeria was like paying off the mortgage on the nation 's future . |
| 9 | God had answered that prayer , and taught her that the people had their own ministry to offer in return from the time she first set foot on African soil . |
| 10 | Popper was aware of the problem discussed in section 1 right from the time he first published the German version of his book The Logic of Scientific Discovery in 1934 . |
| 11 | His was an ancient family , the first Oswald Mosley dating from the time of the Tudors . |
| 12 | Detail briefly the step-by-step procedure of handling the booking from the time the enquiry is made to the departure of the guests . |
| 13 | The " Hallelujah lasses " had been used to raising their own voices in protest and employing some fairly dramatic methods to attract attention from the time Catherine Booth took up the cudgels on behalf of women in the early days of the movement . |
| 14 | However , nothing happened during the period from the time the mistake was made until it was discovered to affect the company 's position , nor was there any unfairness or abuse of power . |
| 15 | The process of intervention will be studied over a four month period from the time of first referral . |
| 16 | In the longer run the accentuation of the sterling area policy , and its apparent success , especially in the explosion of colonial dollar-earning from the time of the Korean War commodity boom , re-established the pound as a major currency , a role which seemed unlikely in 1945 . |
| 17 | Broadly , goods are in course of transit from the time that they are delivered to an independent middleman for the purpose of transmission to the buyer , until the time that the buyer actually obtains or is entitled to obtain possession . |
| 18 | Acid clearance time was measured in seconds as the interval from the time of instillation of HCl to the time the pH rose to 5 and stayed at or above that level for 60 seconds . |
| 19 | This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’ |
| 20 | He is cautious about all the hype that has surrounded Alpha from the time of announcement and warns that too much is being promised by a chip that was designed in the first instance to provide a Unix migration path for VAX users . |
| 21 | Nothing could shake the steadiness of such men as Hugh Waterton or John Norbury , who had been in his service from the time when he had been merely Henry of Bolingbroke , earl of Derby , and even that title borrowed by courtesy from his father . |
| 22 | Such a one was John Kirk of Bowmore , who kept a diary from the time he went to America in 1852 , before the Civil War , and gives a vivid account of his impressions of Canada , Boston , and sweat and slavery in the South , but only a short account of his later years when he had returned to Islay . |
| 23 | Such a one was John Kirk of Bowmore , who kept a diary from the time he went to America in 1852 , before the Civil War , and gives a vivid account of his impressions of Canada , Boston , and sweat and slavery in the South , but only a short account of his later years when he had returned to Islay . |
| 24 | This river gets its name from the time of the first exploration of the island , when some of Zarco 's men were nearly swept away by the river but were rescued by other members of the party in a small boat . |
| 25 | Although this analysis is not strictly accurate — there is always a compression/decompression overhead of about 5 per cent — the benefits and potential cost savings are substantial and compression techniques have been a major field of development from the time of the very earliest digital databases . |
| 26 | ‘ even If we lose 10,000 brain cells a day from the time we are born , we have started with so many that the total number lost by the age of 60 would be less than 3 Per cent . ’ |
| 27 | It was as though an extraordinary story — a great mythology , with half-forgotten legends , languages and lore — had been unfolding in his head from the time he began to think ; and his appreciation of the Old Literature was at the deepest level imaginative and creative . |
| 28 | If a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting , the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and place or to such time and place as the Directors may determine . |
| 29 | If a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting , the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and place or to such time and place as the Directors may determine . |
| 30 | In the world of fiction from the time of Richardson ‘ home ’ is , in consequence , almost invariably located in the countryside , where the great house of the locality is the model for the lesser houses of other gentlefolk . |