Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] from the time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 There was a wide diversity of theories about the nature of light from the time of the ancients up to Newton .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Members can avail of the competitive terms of Autocover from the time they become qualified to drive .
6 This is especially true in the context of Latin America where this kind of duality and fusion has been a feature of culture from the time of the conquest right up until today — both on the popular and the intellectual level .
7 Where there has been a lapse of more than a reasonable length of time from the time the contract was made .
8 She had been beaten into submission from the time she was a baby .
9 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 " .
10 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 .
11 This , we hoped , would permit us to see the various stages of the project in operation from the time when a school began to plan its proposal to the time when the materials purchased with project funds were already in use .
12 His dream of uniting Germany and Italy was based in reality from the time of his marriage to Constance , heiress to the kingdom of Sicily , whose kings ruled over both the island and the southern part of Italy known as the Regno .
13 I am , I was born in Essex , in in hospital and my family all come from Essex , and I was brought up in Upminster and I was very fortunate in that I was born into a christian home and I had christian parents and christian grandparents and christian aunts and uncles and I went to church from the time I was about two or three weeks old .
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