Example sentences of "time [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Forward planning ( matching load forecasts and planned capacity , thinking about the future regional spread of power stations ) , was , of course , necessary , but was in practice merely a part time function of the ex-CEB engineers in charge of system operation .
2 Er they 're the sort of things that if you were if you were digging on a site you 'd find these every day , you 'd find an awful lots of them , er and they 're really what the people of the time think of as rubbish .
3 I do n't want you to throw them away today , er , because you might actually in a few days ' time think of some use for them .
4 Yes , I mean this is the point I 'll be developing later , later in , in , in the lectures , I 'm currently spending a lot of time kind of researching and thinking about this , but i i it 's ultimately the question of genes affect behaviour and more and more I come to the to the view that they probably do so erm through what we call our emotions , that our genes kind of erm guide us to do so and things through various subjective feelings like when we 're hungry , we , we know we 're hungry and it 's a subjective feeling of hunger .
5 An extra novelty in the 1980 — 1 franchise competition was the new breakfast time contract .
6 All members of staff have standard conditions of service as set out here , with the exception of temporary staff or staff who are er on a short time contract or maternity leave cover who may have a short term er notice er erm for erm a period of notice .
7 Experience suggests that these posts will mostly be occupied by women wishing to work less than full time , particularly since the full time contract in many specialties implies a considerable amount of unpaid overtime work .
8 ‘ You seem to spend all your time grafting with no reward and you become disillusioned .
9 For each time segment look at three successful things that you achieved .
10 Each time segment will then add up to fifteen successes in your life .
11 There are a number of mechanisms in place that are good by themselves , but when I add it together , it 's a very large time segment that we are always fighting .
12 I thought of them studying the Military Manual of Fakhr-i-Mudabbir , the Adab al-harb Wa'l-Shaj'a , which was written at about the time Tughlukabad was being built .
13 At one time push-ups were done on the knuckles but since medical evidence proved that this could cause severe metacarpal damage they have been done on the flat of the palms .
14 Thus the inference from ( 16 ) to ( 17 ) will be valid only if the speaker index and the time index are held constant ( see e.g. Montague , 1968 ; Scott , 1970 ; Lewis , 1972 ) .
15 Redwood Shores , California-based Oracle Corp has joined the Greek chorus to say that it plans to convert its complete family of products to run on Alpha architecture under both OpenVMS and DEC OSF/1 ; the conversion effort on the VMS products is under way and should be out by the time DEC starts ships .
16 Locomotive Software has launched an entry level version of its popular LocoScript word processing package which is designed to get first time PC users up and running quickly and at minimum cost .
17 At the end of the First World War it was confidently and almost universally assumed that after a short time money would be back to its pre-war value and market prices ( including market rents ) to their pre-war levels .
18 Coleman got his fees and salary from the College , a daily retainer from the army , and for a time money from the sale of drugs provided for the College and the army .
19 And by this time money had started to be a problem .
20 She could recall the excitement of spending for the first time money she had actually earned .
21 At that time money made in this way could not be touched .
22 In the past two weeks he had had enough of being outgoing , talking to strangers , spending time money and love of a sort .
23 For administrative reasons it would be undesirable for base rates to change every time money market rates changed , but if the change is large enough , then a base rate change becomes necessary .
24 Up to the mid-1980s , there was a sharp distinction between most time and sight accounts as far as personal customers were concerned ( i.e. at the retail level ) : time accounts paid interest whereas sight accounts did not .
25 Other sight accounts , however , do pay interest at a rate only slightly below that on time accounts .
26 Higher interest rates may encourage depositors to switch their deposits from sight accounts ( earning little or no interest ) to time accounts .
27 Since money is less likely to be withdrawn quickly from time accounts , banks may feel the need to hold less liquidity , and therefore may decide to increase credit , thus expanding the money supply .
28 When the base is squeezed by open-market operations , etc. , the banks may be able to economize on cash balances by encouraging customers to switch to time accounts which have less risk of large cash withdrawals .
29 The Belgian , who had popped out of the clinches to snatch narrow verdicts in three mass sprint finishes , settled the race with a remarkable show in the 40km time trial .
30 Not since 1985 , when he won a Tour de France time trial , had Vanderaerden shown such form against the clock .
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