Example sentences of "their time [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sisters with a high orientation were found to spend on average 16% of their time teaching , whereas those with a low orientation spent 11% . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However , their daily search for food takes them on journeys requiring considerable navigation skills , and their time sense helps them here as well . |
| 4 | These three usually spent their time crying and quarrelling , but today they were sitting quietly around their mother in the sitting-room . |
| 5 | At its extreme everyone ends up spending all their time writing reports on everything they do . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Unlike many carnivores , for whom a single meal a day is often sufficient , herbivores have to spend much of their time eating . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The view seems to be that attractive young women have better things to do than spend their time doing science . |
| 11 | The women actually had rather strong ties , since they spent much of their time doing household tasks communally outside . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Some male birds spend all their time mating and do not provide the female with any benefits other than indications of their vigour . |