Example sentences of "of time [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 've only been there one day — half a day , really , since I took a good bit of time off this afternoon to talk to you . |
| 2 | Our piloting suggests that there is very little information here which could not be filled in out of the heads of appropriate teachers on these courses , so filling in the questionnaire should not cost a great deal of time for each person . |
| 3 | The radioactive decay , through which a radionuclide loses half its radioactivity , is a fixed length of time for each element , and is referred to as the half-life of a substance . |
| 4 | A c.c.d. delay line provides a delay because it takes a certain amount of time for each input sample to be passed along the chain of capacitors and to finally emerge at the output . |
| 5 | There 'll be plenty of time for all night parties when you 're grown up . |
| 6 | The length of time for these processes to occur is very short ( up to 6 seconds ) . |
| 7 | He has plenty of time for these creatures . |
| 8 | It would have taken a considerable amount of time for any Government taking over their shambolic performance to improve the quality of just about everything in the environment , as we have been doing . |
| 9 | Confusion and muddle resulting from mislaid books and materials involve a waste of time for any pupil , but are even more of a nuisance for one who sees poorly . |
| 10 | Still plenty of time for this game to go either way though . |
| 11 | The most common period of time for this sort of agreement is three or four years , and the advances payable should reflect this . |
| 12 | Teachers often report that they completely switch off at the beginning of the holidays , or sleep for abnormally long periods of time for several days . |
| 13 | But , you must remember to leave the correct interval of time between each letter , which is one dash . |
| 14 | The most interesting condition occurs under item 9 ( Liability of seller ) : Under the Trade Descriptions Act , SLAD may not stipulate the period of time of this warranty , but it recommends that its members guarantee the authenticity of what they are selling for a period of six years . |
| 15 | While not stated overtly by most interviewees , although some were asked specifically about this , there was a tendency to use the word ‘ friend ’ to signify a pre-heroin relationship , whereas phrases such as ‘ this guy I know ’ and ‘ a bloke who lives around the corner ’ were used to describe a post-heroin use relationship even though the user might be spending a great deal of time with that person on a daily basis . |
| 16 | Zeinab spent a lot of time with this shopkeeper . |
| 17 | For a programme in which you can devote six hours a day to language learning , Brewster and Brewster suggest the following amounts of time on each phrase : In your daily programme you may experience two reactions — boredom or frustration . |
| 18 | I 've spent a lot of time on this job — or rather wasted a lot of time — it meant a great deal to me . " |
| 19 | Erm t just to er well there was a l a certain lack of time on this thing , I mean , Dennis had to come round and tell us to start our tick-list else we were n't gon na . |
| 20 | The the erm a great deal of time at that enquiry was taken up with the alternative sites proposed by the Council erm and their suitability in relation to the . |
| 21 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in a garage at the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too ! |
| 22 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in the garage and the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too . |
| 23 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in a garage at the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too ! |
| 24 | But some in-laws do manage to get along remarkably well together , even when they have to spend a great deal of time in each other 's company . |
| 25 | He has a branch office in Gracechurch Street , and spends a considerable amount of time in this country . ’ |
| 26 | A&E staff spend a considerable amount of time in this type of work . |
| 27 | The average length of time in this accommodation was 10 months . |
| 28 | They obtain an expression for the stress as a function of time In this form , and at long-term equilibrium the material resembles one considered by Signiorini ( 1955 ) , whereas if A/2 + B = 0 it is of Mooney form and if A = B = 0 it is Rivlin 's neo-Hookean material . |
| 29 | However , as a ‘ courageous ’ cut and sewer , as well as being a past owner of a Brother Electronic with garter carriage which casts off automatically , I decided that I would never go back to a latch tool cast off and that it was a waste of time in any case if I was intending to cut the fabric ! |
| 30 | Earlier we find little trace of it generally , and so we ought not to be surprised to find it missing from the ordinary Person 's consciousness of time in those days . |