Example sentences of "spend [art] considerable time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , several men would spend a considerable time erecting steel scaffolding before such a job would be attempted . |
| 2 | Just over 70% spent a considerable time each week on stock work — most of the time spent checking , feeding and moving stock . |
| 3 | From the time that I was about eight , the Boxing Booth acted as a magnet to me and I spent a considerable time gazing in awe as the boxers paraded on the small stage outside the tent , ready to take on all corners . |
| 4 | Alejandro was so staggered by Fantasma 's progress that he decided to waive his prejudice against greys ; not so much that he was prepared to get on her back , but he spent a considerable time wondering how he could flog Fantasma to a rich patron without them finding out how vicious and unmanageable the mare could be when she was away from Luke . |
| 5 | The Hon. Member for Cunninghame , North spent a considerable time addressing amendment No. 5 , which would prevent any of the privatised bus companies from disposing of fixed assets within five years without the consent of the Secretary of State . |
| 6 | He has therefore used local newspaper cuttings as well photographs and spent a considerable time talking to some of the senior members of the club to produce the book . |
| 7 | Mr Stitt added that it was crazy to move the SAR flight away from the RAF Leuchars mountain rescue team , with which the crews spent a considerable time training . |
| 8 | Simon Pepper of the WWF said : ‘ We have had to recognise that having spent a considerable time on this project and having devoted considerable resources by our organisations , it has not been possible to secure the overall package which we considered necessary for going ahead . |
| 9 | Both he and Amiss had spent a considerable time comforting Sunil , who had been throwing up on and off for over an hour . |
| 10 | The development of these skills is dependent on the young animal spending a considerable time in normal relationships with its own kind . |
| 11 | In Geurrero State this waiting period was apparently not too long but it appeared that in other areas delays and crowded court lists inevitably meant some people spending a considerable time in custody . |
| 12 | In the Introduction to the Principles , Berkeley spends a considerable time arguing against the doctrine of abstract ideas . |
| 13 | All numerically computed trajectories eventually spiral into C+ or C but some spend a considerable time wandering near the strange invariant set ( which was produced in the bifurcation that occurred as r passed through its homoclinic value ) before doing so . |