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

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1 It is important to realize that the scope of a scheme which apparently focuses on a relatively narrow area may be quite wide by the time all fringe topics ( which are relevant to or have some impact upon the core area ) have been noted .
2 But most of the time such punishment is wasted because it does not produce repentance or reform .
3 He notes that at the time that Hoover was engaged in this exercise , a basic Italian washing machine was gaining market share against a heavily promoted German product , in Germany .
4 When the source emits the next wave crest it will be nearer to us , so the time that wave crest takes to reach us will be less than when the star was stationary .
5 I 'll start from the time that darkness came on .
6 Oh in fact you 're not even you could never have to go back to that same place but depends on where what you 're doing at the time that assignment comes up for reselling .
7 Moore felt at the time that jazz-rock offered a more obvious challenge to his talents , and the Colosseum line up , apart from Neil and Gary , included Don Airey on keys and Jon Hiseman on drums .
8 There are some , like erm , oak trees live five or six hundred years if they 're lucky , pines can live for a thousand years , giant tortoises for two hundred , well these are quite impressive figures , but let's face it it 's not very long , erm , compared with the time that evolution has been at it .
9 The time that water spends in aquifers is an indication of their importance as natural stores of water .
10 At the time that Sun Life moved its head office to Bristol , it also had nine regional offices based in major cities .
11 Moreover , it must be remembered that the unit is extremely small , and also that by the time that man was struggling with the birth pangs of civilisation , it had already been produced , by the wondrous process of evolution , in astronomical numbers .
12 By the time that man gets to Riga he will know his way around the town and every detail of his life from the day his father gave him a light-brown teddy-bear , to the movie show he watched last night .
13 What we do know is that , particularly in the lower reaches of the rivers , they have suffered in the time that man has been around in Sussex , in say the last ten thousand years , very , very dramatic changes .
14 Even when all intended partners of the new firm have indicated assent it will still be necessary to establish some order of seniority and to select the first senior partner : though joint senior partners are not unknown , the better arrangement may be for some restriction to be put upon the time that office is held by any one individual so that by rotating it between the participating firms a reasonable balance is achieved .
15 We now see that the intermittency factor is most appropriately defined as the fraction of the time that vorticity fluctuations are occurring .
16 But I slowly became aware that they were all looking at me — just the time that sergia became aware of the direction of my gaze .
17 It 's a convenient unit , perhaps a useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the time that light takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun .
18 Six healthy adult volunteers collected urine specimens throughout the course of a normal day , noting the time that food and drink were taken .
19 By the time that Orchard made his last will in January 1504 he had married for a second time .
20 ‘ They 're built to cope with the largest demand , although most of the time that demand is simply not required .
21 People who owned such land at the time that pressure for development came upon it — whether industrial or residential ; indeed obviously , the two went together — were faced with two choices .
22 Shrewdly invested , that sum had turned into nearly £50 million by the time that planning applications , investigations of builders and a two-year public inquiry had been negotiated .
23 The rules as to the time that property passes are contained in section 16–1g and they differ according to whether the contract is for the sale of specific or unascertained goods .
24 Laurie Mains , the All Black coach , was plainly displeased at Schuler 's decision , for it came about the time that Mains was hoping rugby league scouts might not be chasing his All Blacks in the next few months .
25 Record the time each day that Keith spends watching television .
26 For the PB the parents were asked to enter the time each evening when Olwyn went to bed and stayed there .
27 So by the time each chapter has been read , the questions after each section answered , the knowledge review after each module completed , the final quiz and the video and class lectures undertaken , you know it pretty well .
28 If at the time any claim arises under this Policy there is any other existing insurance covering the same loss damage or liability the Corporation shall not be liable to pay or contribute more than its rateable proportion of any such claim provided always that nothing in this condition shall impose on the Corporation any liability from which but for this condition it would have been relieved under the provisions of Proviso ( a ) of Paragraph 2 of Section A of this policy .
29 If at the time any claim arises under this Policy there is any other existing insurance covering the same loss damage or liability the Corporation shall not be liable except under Part C of this Policy to pay or contribute more than its rateable proportion of any loss damage compensation costs or expenses .
30 However , by the time any action was taken the two had disappeared .
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