Example sentences of "[noun] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a few moments , to give Hookum Singh time to get to the hall and ring the bell for the last time , the Collector held the toppling pile of bodies by himself , then he sped across the drawing-room after the Sikhs , his boots crunching broken glass from the cases of stuffed animals ; the Sikhs had bare feet , however , and did not crunch it so loudly . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , it might not be just a matter of rescheduling ‘ waking time ’ and ‘ mealtimes ’ along the lines we have suggested above , since the body does not adjust immediately to the new routine . |
| 3 | We passed the waking time playing Articulate and eating a picnic meal before turning the seats into layers of beds — a complex procedure when there are six people and sets of luggage , but not impossible . |
| 4 | If there were to be nightmares , she could not control that ; but she would not waste her waking time frightening herself with a terror which was past . |
| 5 | The integrator time constant can be varied by adjusting the timing resistor RA to give the required rate of acceleration . |
| 6 | The idea of giving a backward horse time , of not over-racing his less tough charges , of giving the vet the benefit of the doubt when he said a leg was liable to break down on hard ground — these were alien concepts to Harry Short . |
| 7 | He turned his horse time and again , and went ploughing through the thickest of the struggle with bared sword , exchanging strokes with any who cared to stand and debate with him . |
| 8 | This gives each musician time to practise so that you all arrive at the rehearsal ready to try out new , revised musical parts . |
| 9 | It is not widely used for research outside the military because of the cost of high fidelity simulator time . |
| 10 | The uniform hour of sixty minutes soon tended to replace the day as the fundamental unit of labour time in the textile industry . |
| 11 | From Ricardo , Marx took the idea that the value at which products exchange in a market is proportional to the labour time required to produce them . |
| 12 | But since owners of capital control the production process , workers are not paid for the full labour time expended at work . |
| 13 | One of the most basic features of capitalism is the separation of the workers from the means of production and one of the most basic aims of socialism is to abolish that separation , to regulate the allocation of resources and the expenditure of labour time according to the ‘ republican and beneficent system of the association of free and equal producers ’ ( Marx , 1974 , p. 90 ) . |
| 14 | The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit . |
| 15 | An additional benefit is that the machine is easy to clean , meaning a reduction in labour time . |
| 16 | To rationalise , according to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary , is to bring into conformity with reason , or in the economic sense , to eliminate cost in labour time and materials . |
| 17 | Variations in the source characteristics of Labrador Sea Water can be traced across the North Atlantic , with a circulation time of 18–19 years between the Labrador Sea and Rockall Trough . |
| 18 | This suggests that the effects of the renewal of LSW in the early 1970s have just reached the Rockall Trough , and from this we can deduce that there is a circulation time of 18–19 years between the Labrador Sea and the Rockall Trough . |
| 19 | Celluloid time is malleable , even reversible ; the stability of real time meanders and comes under question the way many of our other unquestioned perceptions of solidity and certainty stumble in the confusion of deliberate sensory re-alignment " . |
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| 22 | This usually means little pruning and , potentially even more serious , since large problems frequently have to be terminated before they have been completely solved to avoid excessive computation time , frontier search may provide no solution at all . |
| 23 | Since much of the computation time is used to establish that the solution is optimal , premature termination of the procedure can often save time and yet still give the optimal solution , although its optimality can not be guaranteed . |
| 24 | Although the existence of common solutions to distinct branches does not affect the validity of the B & B procedure , it could conceivably lead to increased computation time . |
| 25 | However , the remedies for avoiding common solutions , for example a positivity constraint on one branch , are likely to involve more additional computation time than their use would save . |
| 26 | For example , a non-separable term such as can be written , where are added as constraints , although the use of such tricks can adversely affect computation time . |
| 27 | Donald had forgotten to reset his alarm clock for Daylight Savings Time , and was out in the street at 5.30am : prime drug-dealing time . |
| 28 | The Frenchman was a lawyer , and Sir Anthony was on the board of the building firm which Gillian 's father mostly owned ; air traffic was increasing , bonanza time , and the company had appointed Anthony to be their emissary on a proposal for a joint venture on a new terminal . |
| 29 | Worse ( < ) spring time or on going from cold to warm , becoming warm |
| 30 | Worse ( < ) spring time or on going from cold to warm , becoming warm , they can not breath in the heat . |