Example sentences of "out [prep] a time " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The 20mm and 40mm quick-firing guns here were in or on concrete emplacements , and although the crew of the outer guns were knocked out for a time the Germans got this battery firing again , and the searchlight on the Mole 's tip was never put out .
2 He was knocked out for a time .
3 Depends on time you go out for a time
4 Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp .
5 erm employed people have a regular activity erm on a daily basis , and that activity is carried out with a time structure , so that the hours of the day are different from each other , the days of the week are marked out as being different from each other , the weeks are marked out by being different from each other as well , and also you 're situated in time in a different way — you 're on some sort of career , you can see some way in which your life is progressing .
6 These three jobs are carried out within a time dimension .
7 The project is first laid out on a time base and the job completion dates transferred to the horizontal scale representing planned time .
8 The project is first laid out on a time base and the job completion dates transferred to the horizontal scale representing planned time .
9 But the study was carried out at a time of economic expansion and three out of four of the firms had experienced growth in the year prior to the study .
10 His book comes out at a time when anyone who shares his concerns may be feeling particularly down-hearted .
11 Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane .
12 As a rule he was unobserved , as he took care to go out at a time when everyone in the house was occupied elsewhere .
13 In the latter case , the higher-level program is translated as a whole into a lower-level program as a whole , and that process is carried out at a time before and separate from the time when the ( compiled ) program runs .
14 An application for a warrant of further detention can be made up to 42 hours from the commencement of the detention clock , in a situation where the 36 hour period runs out at a time when it is not possible for a magistrate 's court to sit .
15 The annual report published by HMI has always been a loose-leaf , photocopied document , shoved out at a time designed least to embarrass Ministers .
16 His kidnapping was carried out at a time of great international tension , occurring only two days after US aircraft had conducted bombing raids on targets in Libya .
  Next page