Example sentences of "[adj] time to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The median time to symptom control in those with cytomegalovirus infection ( and therefore treated with foscarnet ) was four weeks , which does not differ from the median time to control on those without cytomegalovirus infection treated with analgesics alone .
2 Median time to progression was 6.0 ( 2 to 14 ) months for treated patients and 2.3 ( 1.5 to 8.0 ) months for controls ; this difference was significant ( p=0.0008 ) .
3 The median time to detection of HBV infection was 33 days ( range 6–224 ) in the five patients who received six grafts which developed progressive liver injury ( fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis or cirrhosis ) compared with 39 days ( range 26–331 ) in seven patients with recurrent HBV associated with mild liver disease .
4 The average life of a bond is defined as the weighted average time to redemption using relative redemption cash flows as weights : where t = proportion of bonds outstanding redeemed in year t , B t = redemption price of bonds redeemed in year t , T= number of years to maturity .
5 Ninety per cent of people in residential care in Newcastle are on income support and the average time to death or discharge in residential care is three years , so his department will be picking up the whole burden by the third year .
6 If too many are undertaken the average time to completion will be unacceptably long .
7 It would also be an appropriate time to institute similar legislation to that of the US government in order to keep company profits stable , thereby maintaining research levels , and at the same time ensure that people may benefit from drugs that would otherwise not be available because they were not profitable to produce .
8 I will make the statement at the appropriate time to Congress .
9 Feeling overloaded with routine and emergency clinical work ( there are no deputising services in Bassetlaw ) and with administration , he did not see how he and his colleagues could commit any extra time to assessment .
10 Middlesbrough lost 3–2 after extra time to Dynamo Dresden after leading 2–0 in the final of a youth tournament in Austria .
11 we , that means I 've got ex , it 's because we do n't have period one and two on Wednesday , yeah , that means we 've got extra time for our French test , I think it was on Wednesday , extra time to practice
12 The time was 10.6 seconds , which was my fastest legal time to date ( that is , the wind speed was below 2 metres per second ) and would turn out to be my fastest that year .
13 We found that combination chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil , leucovorin , and cisplatin in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer increased time to progression and length of survival compared with those in patients given only supportive care .
14 Non-typists have difficulty finding the desired keys and may take a long time to type even a short word .
15 The current yield is therefore only really useful when there is a long time to maturity , in which case the capital gain or loss element will be small .
16 Like a wound in your own flesh , a clean cut heals quickly , but a jagged , ragged , bruised gash can take a long time to heel and is open to infection all that time .
17 It is usually women who have left work , or moved from full time to part time employment , to care for a sick or frail elderly relative .
18 From manufacturing to retail , from workshop to shop work , from full time to part time .
19 If training officers who devote their full time to training are rare , it is usually because they combine the role of training officer with other functions .
20 The mean time to treatment was 15 hours .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 Overall , the mean time to ulcer healing was 4.1 weeks ( 95% CI 4.0 , 4.2 ) .
24 This short fruiting season has inspired a rich folklore regarding the optimal time to stage morel hunts .
25 In terms of location , County libraries were most likely to devote specified managerial time to training , more likely to describe specific training functions of managers and more likely to note a named training officer ( see Table 20 ) .
26 If both consultants and house officers are to give dedicated time to education , then less clinical work will be achieved and waiting lists will grow longer .
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