Example sentences of "lot of time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A that time David was going through a period when he would n't fly , which was a pretty smart ploy because it gained you a lot of time between gigs , as you have to travel by some sort of surface transportation . |
| 2 | Team member Jack Tinsdale said : ‘ John was Bill 's right-hand man and has put a lot of time into the team . |
| 3 | And we had our hiccups and we had all sorts of you know difficult moments for all of us where we all had to face ourselves and You know I remember my little boy said , Oh Mum y what about my Christmas you know I was putting a lot of time into the the striker 's Christmas and he said how do you become a striker 's child ? |
| 4 | The humour is clever — daft but not really slap-stick — and the writers obviously put a lot of time into making sure it works . |
| 5 | This was emphasised by those heads of department who had taken a lot of time over their self-appraisal and who claimed that as a consequence other things had had to suffer . |
| 6 | Television stardom ( Man About The House is soon to be released on video ) ; holidays in America ( her husband is American and they spend a lot of time over there ) ; work in Los Angeles ( last year she appeared in Alan Aykbourn 's Henceforward . |
| 7 | mind , she took a lot of time over it |
| 8 | Campaigning is a demanding business and it swallows up a lot of time without guaranteeing success , said group secretary George Knowles . |
| 9 | Something you used to spend a lot of time at but have n't done for some time . |
| 10 | Those in the know — the core group of researchers in any field who spend a lot of time at conferences and seminars chatting about the state of the art — will simply disregard the anomalous result , or they will have gossiped it away in the bar after the meeting . |
| 11 | Carolyn gathered that she spent a lot of time at the Refuge . |
| 12 | She spends a lot of time at Jack 's now — most weekends . |
| 13 | Elliott spends a lot of time at home working on his designs . |
| 14 | Do you spend a lot of time at Alison 's ? |
| 15 | Unless you have a fair experience of building handicrafts and a lot of time on your hands , you will probably need to hire a builder , and you should take as much care over this as possible since the quality of building work varies very substantially indeed , and two different firms of builders , next to each other in the ‘ Yellow Pages ’ may reflect totally different standards and attitudes . |
| 16 | ‘ He spends a lot of time on his own , ’ Emily said in a brisk tone . |
| 17 | For a start , I spent a lot of time on my own , or with London friends . |
| 18 | They did n't have a lot of time on it and it was effectively an engineer/producer , rather than a producer . |
| 19 | That 's a lot of time on the flat stages , not so much on the fierce and extended mountain climbs that are to come . |
| 20 | Uncle Joe used to advise local farmers on sheep-breeding and had spent a lot of time on Tina 's family farm . |
| 21 | I 've spent a lot of time on this . ’ |
| 22 | This makes the statement easier for your customer to understand and reconcile and will help you be paid faster , as well as saving a lot of time on queries . |
| 23 | He has a lot of time on his hands . |
| 24 | I spend a lot of time on the bathroom scales — too much time — I really should throw them away ! |
| 25 | Although they feel ‘ cut off ’ from the mainstream of the knitting world , the knitters are very imaginative and prepared to spend a lot of time on one garment — and it shows ! |
| 26 | She spent a lot of time on the beach before she became ill . |
| 27 | It 's quite possible for the adventurers to waste a lot of time on trivia before — and maybe even instead of — finding the object of their quest . |
| 28 | Cos we 've spent an awful lot of time on it . |
| 29 | And you could waste an awful lot of time on it . |
| 30 | As a result , they had a lot of time on their hands . |