Example sentences of "time give " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Charles has at times given the impression that he would prefer to renounce the throne in favour of his son .
2 The weights and fuel consumption times given below refer to the larger CV470 .
3 And remember that times given for stages in guidebooks and on mountain path signposts are estimates for typical , more lightly equipped walkers .
4 This is relatively short , but there is also an operating time involved , and for safety a one-minute or five-minute overhead has been added to the actual sort times given in Fig. 7.22 .
5 This time interval is the sum of the times given by eqn ( 9.4 ) and ( 9.5 ) .
6 Charlton , who yesterday named an unchanged Republic side following their first training session in Vilnius , said : ‘ If it is the three players who I have watched four times give excellent performances for Lithuania , then I will be delighted .
7 Charlton , who yesterday named an unchanged Republic side following their first training session in Vilnius , said : ‘ If it is the three players who I have watched four times give excellent performances for Lithuania , then I will be delighted .
8 ‘ We recommend that users turn the tap on and off three times to give full rinsing , ’ he says .
9 Nolan , now married with two children , has tried several times to give up healing , but people wo n't let him .
10 Car mechanic Graham , 28 , of Stevenage , Herts , said : ‘ We 've tried many times to give up but this time it 's different . ’
11 Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case .
12 In fact some of our more ancient cities and boroughs have Charters still in existence granted in Saxon times giving to local areas powers which were in effect autonomous government .
13 The exceptions were Michael Crawford as Nuri , the Prime Minister 's son , who , from his first entrance , worked hard to give pace to this ponderous piece ; Barbara Atkinson also amused as Millie the coffee-bar manageress , at times giving quite a credible imitation of Hylda Baker . ’
14 This was done three times giving nine readings .
15 The Times gave prominence to cricket but thought the FA Cup Final in 1914 ‘ of comparatively little interest except to the Lancashire working classes ’ ( the game was between Liverpool and Burnley ) .
16 Mori in the Times gave Labour a one-point lead .
17 The media was not interested : the New York Times gave it two paragraphs ; Life and Look magazines turned down the excellent investigative article by Washington freelance journalist Seymour Hersh , and the big news organisations failed to follow up tips about the case .
18 The Financial Times gave up reporting such trifling information some time back , leaving investors to subscribe to one of the various services that now exist .
19 Even The Times gave the kind of distorted account of our treatment of grammar which would please retired head teachers of an old-fashioned cast of mind .
20 From slang to puns to points of conflict , the end result is something like homeboy fashion meets voodoo charm and , back in ‘ 88 , the LA Times gave her a fitting nickname , ‘ East LA 's Ambassador Of Culture ’ .
21 Gradgrind 's becoming an MP in Hard Times gives him further opportunity for satire : Parliament figures as ‘ the national cinder-heap ’ ( HT ii 11 ) where the MPs , ‘ the national dustmen ’ , get up ‘ a great many noisy little fights amongst themselves ’ ( HT ii 12 ) , and the image recurs in Our Mutual Friend when CD apostrophizes the nation 's legislators : ‘ My lords and gentlemen and honourable boards , when you in the course of your dust-shovelling and cinder-raking have piled up a mountain of pretentious failure , you must off with your honourable coats for the removal of it , and fall to work … or it will come rushing down and bury us alive ’ ( OMF iii 8 ) .
22 In another study , however , the time given to ‘ community contact ’ by community constables in one area each of Surrey and inner London was estimated at 45 per cent , compared to 4 per cent for regular officers , although even here more time was devoted to dealing with offences than community relations ( Fielding et al .
23 His successor was Sir Clive Wigram , who in June 1931 attended another dinner , this time given by a South African millionaire , Sir Abe Bailey , to promote the National Government conception .
24 Four months in France had quietened her down and at the same time given her a veneer of sophistication quite lacking before .
25 Everyone was keen to work hard at seeing as much as possible in the time given — including some places not normally open to the public , for which Martin Randall had made special arrangements .
26 Others may have shared my depression at the spectacle of party activists of various political persuasions sitting , stopwatch in hand , to measure the amount of time given to their views compared with those of their opponents .
27 The amount of time given to the development of the basics , the school 's approach to equal opportunities , special needs work , sex education , multi-cultural and anti-racist education and pupil assessment will be seen in action .
28 Because games may vary slightly in length you may not start at the exact time given .
29 However desirable this might be , in a highly complex and differentiated society such as ours this undertaking would need a very long time given our present methods , resources and interests .
30 Another factor working against effective communication may well have been the air time given to Zambian language news bulletins : these were only five minutes long .
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