Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 2 | Friday I spent some time here , half a day . |
| 3 | This was a challenging task even for an accomplished side which had little time to acclimatise or practise . |
| 4 | By adopting this method of study he wasted less time and it also enabled him to learn more efficiently . |
| 5 | ON August 25 , 1992 , in a report about the large amount of divorce legal costs , we inadvertently stated , due to a typographical error , that average costs of cases which take some time amounted to £250,000 , when the correct figure should be £25,000 . |
| 6 | But there are so many things to gladden the heart which take little time and no money . |
| 7 | In a case which occurred some time between 1037 and 1054 , the abbot of Marmoutier complained in Geoffrey Martel 's court that a certain Bouchard had seized back a mill which his brother , with Bouchard 's consent , had earlier bestowed on the abbey . |
| 8 | And there are few effects which require more time or effort to achieve . |
| 9 | The one member of the CPNI who was centrally involved in NICRA was Betty Sinclair ; as secretary of the Belfast trades council she had more time to devote to it than trade-union officials like Banks and Harris . |
| 10 | Well first let me say erm in answer to a question you put some time ago , what is it what is in this budget for the people of Oxfordshire , and all you got from both Councillor Waldon and Councillor Barnes was a list of the cuts . |
| 11 | The other device I saw some time ago was a timing light for diesels , this obtained its triggering pulse from a sensor clipped to no.1 injector pipe . |
| 12 | The establishment of a working routine which uses this time to the greatest effect is the most important task of the new undergraduate . |
| 13 | There has been a substantial increase in coverage of the Chamber and of committees in regional broadcasting ; some regions , BBC and ITV , have generated good week-end reviews which give more time to back-bench MPs . |
| 14 | The room was silent save for the angry swishing sound she made each time she turned the magazine 's pages . |
| 15 | The only heroes he had much time for were Bravd and the Weasel , who were out of town at the moment , and Hrun the Barbarian , who was practically an academic by Hub standards in that he could think without moving his lips . |
| 16 | Mr X found the sound of running water reduced his tinnitus ; on bad days he spent much time in the bathroom . |
| 17 | Once free of these troubles he wasted little time in turning his attention to England . |
| 18 | Most years he spent some time in Anagni or Segni , his home region ; otherwise Rome was his main place of residence . |
| 19 | There have been earlier references to the changing and elastic notion of priorities which takes some time to come to terms with . |
| 20 | Notice the rhythm of the different name you insert each time . |
| 21 | and , well no it 's not sociable but because you come out and it , it gets you away from here because you 've got so many things on during the day you want some time to yourself and because you , we 've found us a place that we wo n't get busted and we know we wo n't we go in and have it but I can guarantee that if we were , like walking into this room , if it was full of smoke it would put me off straight away . |
| 22 | The poorest families who spent more time at home , like the unemployed , were having anything up to £35 per week from their Social Security Benefits deducted and paid direct to the fuel companies to cover fuel debts . |
| 23 | When his friends the Barberini were obliged for political reasons to leave Rome in 1644 and settled in Paris he lost little time in entertaining them and the French Court with Italian operas . |
| 24 | In any event he had little time to give careful immediate consideration to the letter ; he merely wrote a short reply pressing Balfour to reconsider his position . |
| 25 | Now , there is no one in the world whose confidence I would rather share less than Iago 's , and that is one of the reasons for the discomfort I feel each time I experience this play . |
| 26 | God you take enough time . |
| 27 | Now with the motorcycles they spend less time travelling and they can spend more time in the villages doing their educational and health work . |
| 28 | While loading Frankenstein I took some time to read the inlay . |
| 29 | With some degree of er success I trust this time . |
| 30 | Kurt at No 39 with Lithium suffers from the rare ailment narcolepsy which strikes any time . |