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Example sentences for "sufficient time"

  • In spite of these difficulties, Lieutenant Jenkins placed his torpedo in position exactly as arranged, and in sufficient time to return to the trench and to lead his party out to a point about thirty yards from the German wire.

  • These orders were, however, not received at Divisional headquarters in sufficient time to enable them to be transmitted to the attacking companies before the attack was due to start.

  • The first was completed in sufficient time to allow the mobile sections of the field artillery to be in action in close support of the infantry by 11 A.

  • We can not by any other means transport men and munitions of war from the Atlantic States in sufficient time successfully to defend these remote and distant portions of the Republic.

  • In order to perform this high and responsible duty, sufficient time must be allowed the President to read and examine every bill presented to him for approval.

  • But Hutton had made no step beyond Hooke, Moro, and Raspe, in pointing out in what manner the laws now governing subterranean movements might bring about geological changes, if sufficient time be allowed.

  • When it has been a sufficient time to take the flavour of the herbs, roast it, and when done, serve it with court bouillon, or any other fish sauce.

  • When it has stood a sufficient time, filter through a jelly-bag till the liquor is quite clear.

  • Sufficient time should be allowed for the making of opera cream, for it is necessary that this candy stand for several hours before it is worked up.

  • Therefore, before it is served, it should be kept on ice for a sufficient time to allow it to become thoroughly cold.

  • To keep a record of expenditures will not prove much of a task if it is done systematically, for a few minutes a day will be sufficient time in which to keep accounts up to date.

  • If water must be given, immerse the pots for a sufficient time, instead of using the water-can.

  • In a cold, late spring the heat may not last a sufficient time to carry the plants safely into warm weather.

  • When all these things are ready and have stood a sufficient time, they are put into a pan, one after another, in the proper order, and well beaten together, by which the lightness of the cakes is considerably increased.

  • After the ebullition or infusion has continued a sufficient time, the heat is removed, and the liquid portion drawn off.

  • The Sand being thus cleansed, expose it to the heat of the sun a sufficient time, to exhale entirely its humidity.

  • Compound Vinegars are made by mixing several aromatic substances together; observing only to bruise all hard woody ingredients, and to let them infuse a sufficient time in the Vinegar before you proceed to distillation.

  • It should be so arranged that when the contained gasoline becomes old and less volatile, the air may remain in its presence a sufficient time to become saturated by slow absorption.

  • It is wasteful of heat and there is always a possibility of freezing in case the fire in the furnace is extinguished a sufficient time to allow the water to grow cold.

  • There would not therefore have been sufficient time to write it out and practise it before the performance, had I not sent the two first parts of the work to Bischoff, immediately after their completion.

  • Although sorry to be disturbed in my studies, I allowed myself to be persuaded, and finished it in sufficient time for Hermstedt to practise it well under my direction.

  • In this hope he continued the course of baths with such unwearied perseverance and unswerving confidence that he was enabled to reach Berlin in sufficient time to assume personally the direction of his "Crusaders.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    amicable adjustment; closing the door behind; coarse grass; gaze upon; good common school education; highly developed; moderate winters; our city; piercing glance; place for; round head; strong tendency; sufficient amount; sufficient cause; sufficient degree; sufficient depth; sufficient for; sufficient force; sufficient number; sufficient proof; sufficient quantities; sufficient reason; sufficient size; sufficient strength; sufficient time; sufficiently done