Example sentences of "[adv] a time [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Given the complexity of this task there is always a time lag in the publication of mortality by cause of death data . |
| 6 | This meant that there was now effectively a time limit on how long I was going to be able to stay in my broom cupboard . |
| 7 | There is also a time bar : the Commissioners may only investigate a complaint if it is made within 12 months from the date the aggrieved person first had notice of the matter complained or , but a Commissioner has power to accept a complaint outside the time limit if he considers that there are special circumstances which make it proper to do so . |
| 8 | There is also a time limit for lodging complaints which is normally within three years of the act , or failure to act , about which you are complaining . |
| 9 | The gulf between people 's voting behaviour and the polls was really a time lag . |
| 10 | In addition , there is often a time delay in analysing large amounts of complex data/information and facts/symptoms . |
| 11 | There is often a time lag between the commission of any rape and its reporting since the victim may have considerable misgivings about doing so . |
| 12 | A ( Soviet ) DRA proposal at the Geneva talks in February 1987 for the first time made public a time frame for Soviet withdrawal , eighteen months , with no conditions attached to the process of ‘ national reconciliation ’ in Afghanistan . |
| 13 | I mean it 's gon na I think it 's gon na be quite a time delay . |
| 14 | There is , though , quite a time lag before the Public Accounts Committee reports on the Appropriation Accounts . |
| 15 | Dad spent quite a time loading manure on to a flat-bedded cart , harnessed a horse , put it between the shafts and away to Bugmore we went , with me feeling like a king beside him . |
| 16 | Data is held temporarily within the cache until either a time delay expires , the computer is idle or the cache becomes full . |