Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bataille 's key notion was that of expenditure without return , an orgiastic squandering of time and self . |
| 2 | I mean to have to work out from first principles erm four plus three is seven every time , you may be able to do that with great understanding , but there 's an awful waste of time if you 've got to understand it each time . |
| 3 | We expend endless energy and an awful lot of time each day in pre-empting criticism ; in censoring our speech and our behaviour , checking our appearance , taking up less room , making ourselves invisible , smiling at the request of total strangers , feigning pleasure when we feel none — being good girls rather than real women . |
| 4 | You seem to me to be wasting an awful lot of time . ’ |
| 5 | Cos we 've spent an awful lot of time on it . |
| 6 | And you could waste an awful lot of time on it . |
| 7 | Ye tell me that , laddie , and it 'd save me an awful lot of time . ’ |
| 8 | They 're certainly not run with any notion of an actor 's potential and actors get unhappy because they spend an awful lot of time feeling creatively unused . |
| 9 | Many people spend an awful lot of time editing AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to re-configure memory managers and so forth when they switch between applications . |
| 10 | ‘ Are you going to save us an awful lot of time and trouble , sir , or are you determined to burden the taxpayer further ? ’ |
| 11 | I 've discovered that that is the only way , with one or two exceptions that might occur , the only way to stop yourself wasting an awful lot of time . |
| 12 | Because erm it 's gon na save you an awful lot of time and money . |
| 13 | been attacked over the last few months of not wasting time on the hunt I spend an awful lot of time relieving heavy goods traffic in my area , concerned totally about the environment , about mineral extraction quarries , mining , open cast , things of that calibre . |
| 14 | So that when you introduce yourself , you are seen as a haulier , was the phrase you used , er , and we , we 'd all need to spend an awful lot of time and an awful lot of effort into raising ourselves above that image , I mean there 's nothing wrong with being a haulier , all I 'm saying is that we have to raise ourselves above that image . |
| 15 | I had to go and collect grandma you see to take her to the station , and I did n't have an awful lot of time so I just sort of ran round and collected whatever I got . |
| 16 | saves an awful lot of time with us . |
| 17 | erm We park appallingly carelessly , some of us do it intentionally very often , some of us do it innocently or probably ignorantly , and perhaps to be fined on the spot would be a way of saving an awful lot of paperwork , an awful lot of time , and perhaps reminding people that they should n't be doing these things although I 'm always slightly worried , this is in a sense another problem , I 'm slightly worried by , by the inequity that six pounds or whatever it is will mean a lot to one person and hardly anything at all to another , and you do see some cars mis-parking again and again , and I 'm not sure that erm the instant penalty would make much difference there . |
| 18 | That took up an awful lot of time in my second year , although it was good fun . |
| 19 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in a garage at the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too ! |
| 20 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in the garage and the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too . |
| 21 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in a garage at the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too ! |
| 22 | An expanded sense of time . |
| 23 | To allow a litigant to appeal would only encourage an unnecessary expenditure of time and money . |
| 24 | Fluctuations in market prices of some produce also make it difficult to assess an economic threshold to time sprays . |
| 25 | The light waves emitted from the surface of the star between 10:59:59 and 11:00 , by the astronaut 's watch , would be spread out over an infinite period of time , as seen from the spaceship . |
| 26 | If natural selection were given its head , and an infinite amount of time to work in , then it seems that all lineages would tend inexorably towards ‘ perfection ’ ; where perfection was defined as perfect adaptation . |
| 27 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 28 | He stayed close to fellow Rhodes Scholars Strobe Talbot ( now an editorial writer for Time magazine ) , Frank Aller and Richard Stearns ( now a Massachusetts judge ) . |
| 29 | They apply to the justification of the use of public power over a range of issues , for an extended period of time . |
| 30 | Previously , investigations like this had been done mainly from the outsider 's point of view , and it was men like Evans-Pritchard ( 1902–73 ) , Radcliffe-Brown ( 1881–1955 ) , and , particularly , Malinowski ( 1884–1942 ) , who determined that the only really effective way of understanding the way of life of these peoples was to go and live among them for an extended period of time , learning their language , and becoming accepted as a member of their social groups . |