Example sentences of "[adj] deal of their time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inflation is regarded as a serious macroeconomic problem and governments ( and economists ) around the world spend a great deal of their time , energy and resources in devising and applying policies to combat it . |
| 2 | They both spent a great deal of their time and energy maintaining the primatial claims of Canterbury , and neither ever mentioned the papal privileges in support of their claim . |
| 3 | Englishmen who spent a great deal of their time on horseback around 200 hundred years ago liked to bathe and change before dining . |
| 4 | These creatures are the heavy armoured tanks of the insect world and they spend a great deal of their time on the ground , barging their way through the vegetable litter , scrabbling in the soil or gnawing into wood . |
| 5 | With the phenomenal explosion of information science in recent years , the vast increase in publishing costs and the reduction in government grants to educational establishments , librarians seem to spend a great deal of their time these days poring over computer print-outs on library utilization , in order to help them decide where to recommend cutbacks in library service ( e. g. shorter opening hours or reduced service from enquiry desks ) . |
| 6 | put in a great deal of their time erm going to work and that could be working for er a European or an American right , er some sort of help in the house , or in the garden or whatever , so you had the men doing the same sort of tasks the housework as it were for Europeans and Americans and the women looking after the , the economic development of that little |
| 7 | Like so many baby mammals , young elephants spend a great deal of their time playing . |
| 8 | For the answer is that they spend a very great deal of their time observing how and when and where kinship relationships are brought into play , and in trying to understand the discriminations which mark the boundary between kinship relationships and non-kinship relationships . |
| 9 | Thanks are due , in no small measure , to those on the list of arbitrators appointed by the Chairman , who spend a great deal of their time dealing with these disputes . |
| 10 | In practice , as Barrett and McMahon ( 1990 ) demonstrate from their learning-network of senior health service managers , this is what good managers spend a great deal of their time on . |
| 11 | Jill Ireland renewed her cuddling relationship with Williams and Donald Sinden , Donald Houston and Andrew Ray were among those who spent a great deal of their time wearing bathrobes and dressing gowns , hopping in and out of bed — for strictly medical reasons , of course . |
| 12 | We have been and are very well served in N V C O. Our President , Sir Kenneth , our vice-presidents , and in particular , the Chair , the Vice-Chairs , and Treasurer , give us a great deal of their time , and I do mean give , as they work for many hours on behalf of N C V O without payment . |
| 13 | Leapor and Freemantle spent a good deal of their time talking about poetry and religion . |
| 14 | Surfers are said to be as exclusive in their manners as the upper classes they have replaced , talking only among themselves and inevitably spending a good deal of their time incommunicado offshore . |