Example sentences of "[prep] more time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |
| 2 | Assuming that you have retrieved your ferrets , reluctant though you may be to give up there is wisdom in recognising that you have reached the stage where the expenditure of more time and effort can not be justified . |
| 3 | This entails both a greater awareness of text features and provision of more time for reading . |
| 4 | Oh well there was a lot of more time than that taken up you see . |
| 5 | Even with more time lost , it was all over before the last hour . |
| 6 | Maybe they 'll elope to Gretna Green if they ca n't find a vacant Martello tower , then it will leave me with more time for my Roman friend and dear Boudicca not to mention Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals of which I have perused the first paragraph six times yet can not seem to recall it to mind . |
| 7 | Other explorers with more time available can go down the slope to Ease Gill and there locate Leck Beck Head ; here all the streams that disappear underground on Leck Fell join those from Ease Gill in a return to daylight . |
| 8 | With more time on your hands you may have to find more things to occupy your time : day trips , hobbies , societies . |
| 9 | At Northern Foods Horsley 's brother-in-law , Chris Haskins , was taking a bigger and bigger part in the running of the company , leaving Horsley with more time , and he was delighted to have a chance to help in a project which instantly appealed to his idealistic nature . |
| 10 | With more time available , you will understandably be tempted to spend more on outings , your hobbies and on longer holidays from home . |
| 11 | But today , with more time at her disposal , she could no longer resist the adventure , and in a moment she was out of her own plain black Sunday dress , with its detachable white collar and cuffs , and into the sumptuous white silk which had clothed her dead mother once and for just a few short hours . |
| 12 | In France , Bernard found himself with more time than he had ever been used to in his working life ; after his hour-long morning telephone call to John James the day stretched ahead . |
| 13 | In their dealings in the office they 'd worked well together , achieved an excellent rapport regarding the PR for the business fair , but somehow he 'd been the model of teasing aloofness , apparently with more time for Stephanie Marsa than for Caroline . |
| 14 | The extension provided Rabbani with more time to form a consultative assembly , the Council of Resolution and Settlement ( Hal wa Aqd Shura ) , which would elect a permanent president and prepare for a general election . |
| 15 | She required a consort with more time — and money — to spend on her . |
| 16 | Chores will be taken care of in record time today , leaving you with more time to relax and ponder your future . |
| 17 | Recently , Steve gave up his joinery business to set up a small security firm , hoping for more time to devote to the much-needed rescue . |
| 18 | The International Stock Exchange has called for more time to implement the changes but so far it has had little success . |
| 19 | Mr Marian Calfa is pleading for more time on the grounds that he has been given an even longer list . |
| 20 | By then Mr Reuter 's pleas for more time will be history . |
| 21 | Vice-chancellor Sir Donald Nicholls agreed to demands from a majority of the informal BCCI creditors ' committee for more time to consider the deal , under which the bank 's majority shareholders in Abu Dhabi will inject nearly £1 billion . |
| 22 | Where this is the case , it is the teacher 's responsibility to present the best case she can for more time to those who devise her timetable . |
| 23 | Certain branches of the Ulster Workers ' Council wished for more time to prepare their particular factory or section of industry . |
| 24 | Regardless of the amount of time involved it seems likely that staff will always opt for more time if this is offered to them . |
| 25 | Unsurprisingly , given this position , he is insistent that Anglo-Saxon and philology be retained as essential features of English studies , even in the light of the growth of the discipline : " Our first responsibility is to our subject , and , as that expands , we must not look for more ingenious methods of selection but for more time to do it justice . |
| 26 | Secondly , because of the integration between different components of the social system of the school , an innovation introduced by a single teacher will often have repercussions in other parts of the system — perhaps because there is a need for additional resources , or for more time , or because it is predicted [ sic ] upon new pupil roles , or involves a greater degree of integration . |
| 27 | His feet began to tap more and more loudly beneath the desk and his jaw quivered more and more violently as Blanche put her side of the story and pleaded for more time to finish the investigation . |
| 28 | All ages are interested in the sport and some men have even left their wives for more time to fish ! |
| 29 | On Aug. 24 , the prosecution granted Zhivkov 's request for more time , giving him until Sept. 11 to prepare his defence in connection with charges of alleged racial discrimination and incitement to racial hatred against Bulgaria 's ethnic Turks . |
| 30 | On Nov. 12 however , the High Court in Nairobi granted a request by a faction of the opposition Forum for the Restoration of Democracy ( FORD ) , FORD-Kenya [ see p. 39133 ] , for more time in which to nominate parliamentary candidates , criticizing the government for attempting to shorten the statutory 21-day nomination period , and on Nov. 16 the NEC announced a new election date of Dec. 29 . |