Example sentences of "[pron] time [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hello , just to tell you they 've finished and gone now so I 'm well within my time schedule . |
| 2 | Keeping a work diary provided myself and my managers with quantitative data on my time management which can be scrutinised and kept as one tool to evaluate change . |
| 3 | I therefore decided to investigate my time management before and after the implementation of the scheme of DMR within my school . |
| 4 | According to the last good book I read , this means that I am half way through my time travel , my travel through time . |
| 5 | By the time I was ten , swimming had become my main occupation , and I spent most of my time butter-flying across the pool , swallowing large gulps of water in my excitement . |
| 6 | I ca n't even tell you so it 's in my time plan , I 'll show you . |
| 7 | It was yo-yo 's in my time yo-yo 's and parasols . |
| 8 | But I 've seen in my time coble to ship cattle with to swim them off . |
| 9 | Sisters with a high orientation were found to spend on average 16% of their time teaching , whereas those with a low orientation spent 11% . |
| 10 | Some people hate their relations and spend all their time gardening , and it is certainly the bone of much contention that racial and colour affinities , together with religious ones such as Judaism or Islam , cut across and militate against national allegiances . |
| 11 | However , their daily search for food takes them on journeys requiring considerable navigation skills , and their time sense helps them here as well . |
| 12 | These three usually spent their time crying and quarrelling , but today they were sitting quietly around their mother in the sitting-room . |
| 13 | At its extreme everyone ends up spending all their time writing reports on everything they do . |
| 14 | For citizens can not spend all their time being nationalists : they have to take time off to be members of families , producers , local government councillors and the like . |
| 15 | Unlike many carnivores , for whom a single meal a day is often sufficient , herbivores have to spend much of their time eating . |
| 16 | Pigs live in forests and grasslands and spend their time eating ( almost anything ) , sleeping ( always under cover ) and , if they 're female , being with each other . |
| 17 | This seems an odd reversal of the usual rule that Arctic animals are whiter , but otherwise they behaved as fulmar do in Shetland , appearing to spend much of their time flying and gliding over the sea . |
| 18 | The view seems to be that attractive young women have better things to do than spend their time doing science . |
| 19 | The women actually had rather strong ties , since they spent much of their time doing household tasks communally outside . |
| 20 | By contrast , the research reported here suggests that controlling is not what British solicitors — even those at the bottom end of the market — spend most of their time doing . |
| 21 | And while these women were not displeased with the role of housewife they did not like housework , despite the fact that this was what they spent most of their time doing . |
| 22 | Puffins spend most of their time fishing out on the open ocean , but in spring , in order to nest and breed , they have to return to land . |
| 23 | Some male birds spend all their time mating and do not provide the female with any benefits other than indications of their vigour . |
| 24 | We now have a stratigraphical set-up that has a second formation " y " which seems to pass laterally into " x " and to be its time equivalent . |
| 25 | Felton , California-based , Crosswind Technologies Inc , says Synchronise 1.2 , its time management tool , is to support Santa Cruz Operation 's Open Desktop 2.0 . |
| 26 | This experience might have caused LIFFE to evaluate more carefully what the value of its time zone advantage actually is . |
| 27 | The term attenuation may describe any reduction in magnitude of an electrical signal but an electrical network is only called an attenuator if it reduces the magnitude of a signal without changing its time dependence . |
| 28 | The animal was thought to have many tentacles and to spend most of its time sleeping . |
| 29 | She spent her time shopping , reading women 's magazines , listening to pop music and watching television . |
| 30 | Some people I mean , Elsie loves cleaning things so she 's spends all her time waxing things cos has to be cleaned very carefully . |