Example sentences of "of time [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's always taken twice , three times the length of time as anybody else ? |
| 2 | The ribbon is made , and thenceforth she spends a great deal of time over her hair . |
| 3 | This was emphasised by those heads of department who had taken a lot of time over their self-appraisal and who claimed that as a consequence other things had had to suffer . |
| 4 | As Table 33 of Appendix 1 shows , when people were asked what factors they judged important in deciding on a particular type of credit they had chosen recently , the rate of interest was judged least important among the five factors suggested ( the others were cost of credit , convenience , amount of payment , and length of time over which payments are spread ) . |
| 5 | While it is true that the longer the period of time over which the child 's language is sampled , the more representative that sample will be of the child 's underlying linguistic knowledge , in practical terms the length of any recording will be constrained by the time available for transcription and coding . |
| 6 | Try to increase your attention span and extend the length of time over which you can work effectively . |
| 7 | Their half-lives of about 30 years will determine the length of time over which the doses will be delivered . |
| 8 | The total length of time over which a product may decline depends on a variety of factors , such as its relevance to basic needs , its adaptability in the light of economic trends and whether it is the focus of short-term fads or of longer-lasting fashions . |
| 9 | Proprietary life assurance companies are no different in this respect but it is very difficult to ascertain the amounts of profit arising from individual contracts and the exact period of time over which they can be said to have been earned . |
| 10 | They also agreed to a near doubling of aid to the Third World , but failed to reach a common position on the period of time over which the increase would be phased in . |
| 11 | The emphasis here on the length of time over which sound appraisal is built up , and the linking of self-evaluation with evaluation by other people , points to a broad approach to appraisal . |
| 12 | I 'll thank you then , when I can take plenty of time over it . ’ |
| 13 | mind , she took a lot of time over it |
| 14 | ‘ The last post does n't go till night , I believe , so there 'll be plenty of time for me to post it . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm glad Durham seem pleased with the way it worked out , but it will have been a waste of time for me if I do n't do well in Sri Lanka and in the home series against West Indies . |
| 16 | It took a good deal of time for me and it to get together . |
| 17 | Plenty of time for her to have had a string of boyfriends and perhaps kiss and tell lovers … |
| 18 | She 's not got a lot of time for him now , I can pretty well reveal that . |
| 19 | She has n't got a lot of time for him now . |
| 20 | To ask questions to which people can not give answers is a waste of time for everyone — but one does , from time to time , come across schedules which include questions which require such feats of memory or such difficult calculations that no reasonable person can be expected to give an answer . |
| 21 | They were ‘ very nice and sincere and had a lot of time for everyone ’ , overstaying their allotted time by 30 minutes on both occasions . |
| 22 | Finally , duration is correlated with the period of time for which the relevant neurones are active . |
| 23 | The second cause for concern is the sheer length of time for which the parties seem to continue . |
| 24 | The length of time for which the earth had been at a temperature suitable for life was estimated at not more than a million years . |
| 25 | We will introduce a 110-day limit on the length of time for which a prisoner may be held before trial , repeal the broadcasting ban , and provide for the videotaping of police interviews with terrorist suspects . |
| 26 | The length of time for which the warning stays on record depends in most cases upon the seriousness of the offence . |
| 27 | the maximum length of time for which you should store it — and the conditions of storage |
| 28 | The Lawson parameter is this time multiplied by the number density , the number of ions in a unit volume of plasma , n : the sustainment time is the length of time for which these conditions are maintained . |
| 29 | Availability is the percentage of time for which the plant is mechanically capable of producing full rated output of electricity , whether or not such output was called for to meet demand at the time . |
| 30 | In the case of L Rowland and Co ( Retail ) Ltd , the High Court found that the period of time for which the clock stops during an enquiry by Customs can only reasonably be limited to the period from when the local office initiates the enquiry with the trader to the day when a satisfactory answer is given by the trader . |