Example sentences of "[noun] of time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Had you said this first instead of producing emotional gush about the hospital 's welfare , we could have saved a good deal of time . |
| 32 | He would point out that scientific projects need a great deal of time to come to fruition , and premature publication of , er , data can damage progress . |
| 33 | We spend a great deal of time talking at children . |
| 34 | Both parents were able to devote a great deal of time to their son , walking with him in the park or going for carriage drives , sometimes as far as La Malmaison , for which Napoleon III had a special affection because of its links with his mother and grandmother . |
| 35 | All this of course took up a great deal of time and delayed the completion of Robyn 's thesis on the nineteenth-century industrial novel , which had to be constantly revised to take the new theories into account . |
| 36 | His nature had been over-mature and he had been focused so much on his career that he had never had a great deal of time for his family . |
| 37 | The secondary school to which they went on would then have an accurate record of what they could do , and could save a great deal of time at present wasted in the transition from one school to another . |
| 38 | The areas involved are very large and it will take the oil companies a great deal of time and money to cover them . |
| 39 | A qualified homoeopath will have studied for at least three years and will spend a great deal of time in compiling a detailed history of the patient , including character , antecedents , likes and dislikes and so on . |
| 40 | Since foxes are basically nocturnal animals it takes a great deal of time and patience to shoot a fox , and also a good shot at close range . |
| 41 | The librarian continues to base selection and stock revision programmes on catalogue records which are no longer accurate , and wastes a good deal of time searching for books which are no longer in circulation . |
| 42 | I said I thought a great deal of time was taken up with Committees . |
| 43 | The ribbon is made , and thenceforth she spends a great deal of time over her hair . |
| 44 | Both the Lord Lieutenant and the Chief Secretary were politicians and had to spend a good deal of time in London attending Cabinet and Parliament ; therefore the Under-Secretary , who was a Civil Servant , was the effective head of British Administration in Ireland for most of every year . |
| 45 | We spend a great deal of time arguing and going against these very simple instructions , but through practice we will find how much care and love is behind these messages . |
| 46 | In its initial year the new department spent a great deal of time and energy intervening in the private sector to try to save jobs , especially in the cutlery and engineering sectors . |
| 47 | In retrospect , the research might have been easier in a situation with fewer functional elements , as a great deal of time and effort was directed at trying to tabulate the information links between the system components and construct a comprehensive information model . |
| 48 | Many teachers try to compile their own programmed texts , but it must be said that this takes a great deal of time to prepare . |
| 49 | Carers can be completely tied to their homes , their days a daily round of housework , laundry , dressing , feeding and toiletting which consumes a great deal of time and effort . |
| 50 | It is clear that Watson spends a great deal of time wrestling with his conscience over the choice between morals and results . |
| 51 | Third on fuel costs , the inquiry is likely to spend a great deal of time looking at coal-price assumptions , because Sizewell would be uneconomic if coal prices do not experience any real increase . |
| 52 | He carried out this aspect of his work assiduously , spending a great deal of time obtaining detailed accounts of Soviet work of significant practical use to British academics in disciplines ranging from ergonomics to biotechnology . |
| 53 | It is argued that zebras , unlike antelopes , spend a great deal of time grooming one another 's bodies , especially in the neck region . |
| 54 | ‘ Both put a great deal of time into their jobs , ’ Bloch says , ‘ and prefer rapid promotion to security and congenial work . |
| 55 | As a result , cats spend a great deal of time every day dealing with their toilet , and in addition to the typical licking movements they perform repeated scratchings . |
| 56 | ‘ You 're spending a good deal of time in New York now , Mark . |
| 57 | As my transsexual obsession deepened I was prone to bouts of morbid depression and I spent a great deal of time thinking about suicide ; suicide was almost a twin obsession at times . |
| 58 | This can save a great deal of time when they are being worked in the field . |
| 59 | No doubt you will be putting a great deal of time and effort into the arrangements for your wedding , ensuring that your chosen colour theme and style are just right . |
| 60 | But some in-laws do manage to get along remarkably well together , even when they have to spend a great deal of time in each other 's company . |