Example sentences of "[adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Cambrian times onwards temperatures had been alternating between warm , moderate and glacial . |
| 2 | After Cambrian times , most of the sediments were derived from within the Welsh Basin . |
| 3 | When freshly prepared , a period of 30 min or more may be required to stain the slides , but with maturity , this stain " ripens " and staining times can be progressively shortened . |
| 4 | Staining times in particular are highly variable , and those given herein should only be used as a starting point . |
| 5 | The experimental limit on A given later in Section 11.5 is so that on Earth the acceleration due to the cosmological term is about 10–22 times that due to the gravitational pull of the Sun . |
| 6 | Malekith begins his great period of wandering around the world in search of magical artefacts of elder times . |
| 7 | Lloyd captained West Indies 74 times , winning 36 and losing just 12 , and he twice won the Prudential World Cup . |
| 8 | They had , especially in the hard hopeless times of the first half of the century , been fused into a homogeneous mass of the discontented and the oppressed . |
| 9 | As a result Diana considered her wedding day to be one of the most emotionally confusing times of her life . |
| 10 | Here ; in north Hertfordshire and south Cambridgeshire , we are on the chalk land , cleared of its woodland cover in pre-Saxon times . |
| 11 | because their husbands have made these settlements , often at very emotional times when the women were not really in a position to really make sure they |
| 12 | One of the most emotional times for anyone . |
| 13 | The repercussions of the introduction of cash crops have been analysed in detail in postcolonial times ( Dinham & Hines 1983 ) , particularly upon a reduced capacity of households to grow enough food for themselves , upon nutrition , and upon their ability to withstand drought and other , socially-induced , disasters ( Copans 1975 ; O'Keefe et al. |
| 14 | By Friday 8 July residents of Camelford were being supplied with water at up to 500 times the Maximum Admissible Concentration under the EC Drinking Water Directive of 200 ug/litre ( 0.2 mg/litre ) . |
| 15 | On 18 August it met with the Health Authority 's officials and asked them to conduct a public health survey which it would pay for , mainly to reassure the public that , although the EC limits for aluminium had been exceeded over 500 times , and those for sulphate , copper , zinc and lead had also been broken , there was no long-term harm . |
| 16 | She progressed eventually to the title role , playing it 500 times . |
| 17 | The windows covering the detectors had to withstand decelerations of over 500 times the acceleration due to gravity on Earth . |
| 18 | Every year there are 500 times as many alcohol- and tobacco-related deaths as there are deaths related to the use of illegal drugs . |
| 19 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
| 20 | Even if she is an overpaid brat in danger of losing her marbles , at least she provokes a reaction , and is 500 times more controversial than Madonna . |
| 21 | It is well over 1000 light-years away , and it is at least 500 times as luminous as the Sun , but its surface is very cool for a normal star — hence the crimson colour . |
| 22 | Al Nath is a bluish-white star , almost 500 times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 23 | The female , beating her wings as fast as 500 times a second creates the high-pitched hum that is so unsettling as you lie in camp trying to go to sleep without a mosquito net . |
| 24 | Individual storms may be 500 times more acidic than expected and exceptionally low pH values have been observed during rainstorms as , for example , at Pitlochry in Scotland when on 10 April 1974 a pH value of 2.4 was recorded ( Likens et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | The number density of energetic ions and electrons is so high that were you or I to cross the belt we would receive 500 times the lethal dose of such particles . |
| 26 | Spacecraft missions have yielded pictures with up to 500 times the resolution obtained from the Earth . |
| 27 | The line of typists would reach right round the Earth 500 times . |
| 28 | However , this is still about 500 times larger than the gravitational red shift that is to be measured . |
| 29 | THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city . |
| 30 | We estimate that the dissociation time for distamycin at 4°C ( <10 s ) must be at least 500 times faster than that of actinomycin under similar conditions . |