Example sentences of "[adv] much time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He continued to conduct retreats : the old students at Cuddesdon , clergy at Pleshey in Essex , the Franciscans at Cerne Abbas in Dorset , the nuns at Whitby ; probably he was the first archbishop in the history of the see to make so much time for such days of peace , even though , for the conductor , they were days of intellectual and emotional effort . |
| 2 | I had so much time to look at him I can hardly believe it still , pushing the trolley , standing up in Nibs 's clothes . |
| 3 | It was no coincidence , perhaps , that its president was the Marquess of Salisbury , married to Mollie Salisbury who had spent so much time helping with the garden at Highgrove . |
| 4 | As a bachelor , Adeane had no concept of the intense pleasure fatherhood had brought the Prince , and no understanding of why he should want to spend so much time at home . |
| 5 | She could not understand why he should want to spend so much time away from home and his family . |
| 6 | Ministers are spending so much time wondering who else might go that little governing is getting done . |
| 7 | The ecclesiasticism that so often gets in the way of the gospel ; the temporal concerns of church politics that take up so much time ; the fussiness of much of church life ; our obsession with ‘ churchy ’ things — all these and more are aspects of additions that are really secondary concerns . |
| 8 | Christopher Petrie and Jane lived for a year as neighbours : he in the manor and she in the stables-converted cottage , which she made much cosier and more inviting than the manor — one reason perhaps why Christopher spent so much time there . |
| 9 | At first I could not devote so much time to the orchestra but by the early 1960s I was coming to a position where I was able to be with the orchestra a very great deal , working for eight or ten days at a time on concerts , records , and films . |
| 10 | Sometimes it gets to me , I give so much time and energy to everyone else , that there is nothing left for me . |
| 11 | Will he be as happy as his stepmother to indulge the coach parties , the corporate guests , the Japanese tourists with whom Raine and her husband spent so much time ? |
| 12 | Assuming that the Congress , which has wasted so much time so far , does not get round to final approval of any of the versions of the constitution , Mr Yeltsin could either wait until its next scheduled meeting in the autumn , seeking a compromise with parliament . |
| 13 | They spend so much time immersed in unglamorous stuff — transient and trivial details that vanish and reappear to be done again the next moment . |
| 14 | But it takes so much time and you 're leaving tomorrow . |
| 15 | It is most curious to see that you have so much time on your hands that you are able to simply wander about this house bothering others with gratuitous comments . ’ |
| 16 | If you have so much time to spare , I suggest it might be more profitably spent taking some fresh air . ’ |
| 17 | It is not entirely clear what its Darwinian purpose is , but it certainly must have one , for the beavers expend so much time and energy to build it . |
| 18 | In fact they spend so much time flying head first into burns , one would have thought they could save even more time by simply opening their mouths and taking on water without the inconvenience of having to reach for the day-glo bottle . |
| 19 | Having lavished so much time , money and effort on their house , you might expect it to be a work of art — which , as Peter modestly admits , ‘ It is . ’ |
| 20 | She was here , the very person he had spent so much time and energy and money tracking down . |
| 21 | From these you can begin questioning why you are spending so much time on certain activities and less on others . |
| 22 | The alternative would be to spend so much time defining the task or problem that the manager would indeed be better off doing it personally . |
| 23 | By all means make plans for tomorrow but try not to spend so much time engrossed in those plans that you forget to live today . |
| 24 | ‘ It would be extremely sad to see this railway go to the wall , after so many volunteers have put in so much time and money to keep steam travel alive in Hampshire . ’ |
| 25 | Then you were given so much time to get back home again . |
| 26 | It seems at first sight strange that in a disposition essentially formless so much time should be spent by the jurists on questions of wording . |
| 27 | Pat was more sympathetic , but also admitted that she had become irritable with Tony now that he was spending so much time at home . |
| 28 | It 's a bunch that rides steadily , guided by experienced domestiques who know how to keep going and not lose so much time that they will be eliminated from the Tour as a whole . |
| 29 | One of the basic things to be negotiated is the matter of running the home , now that there are two adults spending so much time in it . |
| 30 | It is not long , however , before the reader realises that in investing so much time and effort in a small number of individuals . |