Example sentences of "[vb pp] too much time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darling Mother , I have let too much time pass without writing , but I have n't forgotten you . |
| 2 | These men , either forgetting or not realising that work is but a component of life and not a reason for it , are likely to have spent too much time working , to the exclusion of family and leisure activities . |
| 3 | Henry Bordes-Pages , spokesman on research for the white-collar union CGG says : ‘ The government has spent too much time on debates . |
| 4 | I 've spent too much time with you . ’ |
| 5 | Nobody had spoken of this new responsible attitude , because to do so would be to admit that his behaviour had previously left something to be desired , and my mother had spent too much time in implicit denial of this to waste it all now . |
| 6 | Perhaps the conservatism of his views in 1857 derived from the fact that he had spent too much time studying the narrow-minded documents bequeathed by Nicholas I. In 1858 he was certainly impressed by The Bell , by reports of the disturbances in Estonia , and by his correspondence with Evgenii Obolenskii ( one of the three Decembrists of Kaluga ) . |
| 7 | Have you spent too much time in the sun today ? ’ |
| 8 | Training to be a doctor had n't left too much time for socialising , and maybe that was another reason why she had n't suspected that Paul was one of those rare people dogged by obsessive jealousy . |
| 9 | I 'm snowed under with work and I 've taken too much time off to be with you . |
| 10 | The CPV had made a number of errors in the past ; it had taken too much time setting forth the initial stage of the transitional period to socialism and had made " many mistakes " in reforming prices , wages and money and in ideological and organizational tasks . |
| 11 | That crack penetrated , but I had wasted too much time to deal with it . |
| 12 | Do you think students are given too much time to respond to each stimulus or not enough ? |