Example sentences of "[noun pl] time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 In October 1930 , ten months before the first National Government was formed , Sir Arthur Balfour , an industrialist and a member of the Economic Advisory Council , wrote to Ramsay MacDonald , saying that he had been forced to the conclusion : That our industrial and commercial economic situation is steadily deteriorating and if this continues , in a few months time , we shall be on the verge of a debacle .
3 ‘ The changes facing the industry with the ending of the variable premium in a few months time made buyers highly selective , ’ said auctioneer Michael Walton who managed to extract an average £1000 for ram lambs against a 1990 figure of £1209 .
4 The larger experiments would be preparatory to the demonstration of a thermonuclear power station elsewhere in Argentina in 6 to 8 months time .
5 Scientists working on the survey are now confident that the satellite will complete its mission before its cooling system runs out of helium in about seven months time .
6 They are negotiating with Canada to allow them to do it there , but it has not happened yet and the weapons are due here in six months time .
7 At the moment I find that I can just afford my fortnightly twenty-minute flights , but in eighteen months time , when I reach the age of seventy , I wonder if I shall be able to afford £130 per year for the ‘ privilege ’ of flying ?
8 The borrower had three ways of repaying his loan , either starting at once , in three months or nine months time .
9 On his return from the England tour of India in three months time Gooch had planned to separate from the mother of his three daughters and his wife of 16 years .
10 At the time the decision was that a review would be undertaken at the end of the conflict or ‘ in six months time ’ to look at the long-term future of the OCU .
11 If practise breeds professionalism and The Wishplants are this adept now , in six months time they 'll have the gap all sewn up .
12 IN exactly 12 months time Dublin will stage the International Golden Oldies festival when 6,000 of the seer and mellow generation will furnish teams for what is expected to be the biggest celebration yet .
13 An exciting development ( not necessarily for steam enthusiasts ) is the plan to introduce a three unit railcar in approximately 18 months time .
14 Meanwhile , Budapest-based Graphisoft , the privately-held Hungarian software outfit which claims to have sold more CAD packages on Apple Computer Inc Macintosh platforms than any other firm during 1991 , is thought to be readying Apple A/UX 3.0 and Microsoft Corp Windows versions of its ArchiCAD software for release in around six months time .
15 er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house
16 A PARISH council clerk is to retire in three months time after five years service .
17 Legal authorities who have taken over the case have imposed a blackout on information and until their investigations are complete and the case is ready to go to trial , probably in two to three months time , no-one can say how many fakes were involved , what their real value was , nor indeed how many people worked in the ring .
18 Having got a rough draft of a solution , now write it out neatly and in a logically developed manner so that you will be able to read and understand your solution in 6 months time .
19 On 3 February 1992 the justices made an order containing terms ( 1 ) that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the review by the local authority in six months time ; ( 2 ) that the mother should have reasonable supervised contact with the girl ; and ( 3 ) that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her older half-sister .
20 By their reasons the justices stated that the girl would continue to be liable to sexual abuse if allowed to return to her family as the mother refused to recognise the responsibility of the father for that abuse and that the mother would not protect the girl from the father on whom the mother was emotionally dependent ; that they had considered that the girl might be cared for by her half-sister but had concluded that it would be difficult to prevent contact between the girl and her father ; that they had formed the view that contact between the girl and her father would be harmful at the present time and therefore the local authority should refuse such contact until the review by the local authority in six months time ; and that there should be supervised reasonable contact between the girl and her mother and between the girl and her half-sister .
21 He suggests , for example , that instead of making a care order an interim care order should have been made with a view to reviewing the progress of rehabilitation in six or nine months time .
22 David Tait had arrived in New York in March , with the instructions to ‘ set up an airline ; we 'll be sending you a 747 a day in three months time ’ .
23 You 'll all be at my wedding in six weeks/six months time , and frequent guests at my house , and in my garden .
24 t to get it , is just right because i i in twelve months time we might have to tender for every job .
25 So , so , two months time we should know where we 're going ?
26 I mean were we talking about you know , I suppose a quick five minutes feedback but then you know , five minutes in three months time .
27 Cos the key thing with Clare is , she 's don she 's obviously gone back doing a lot , but who 's gon na follow it up in three months time , to see
28 Security in the context , not just of law and order , but security in terms of can they be sure that they have a job next month , in six months time .
29 And part of the reason why we 're not really out of the recession , is that people are not willing to commit themselves to any further expenditure because they 're not quite sure in six months or twelve months time , as to whether they 're going to have anything in the way of a job .
30 I know it 's tempting when see something at £5 instead of £10 , but in six months time it 's useless — that 's why it 's cheap . ’
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