Example sentences of "[vb past] much time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They devoted much time to the investigation and publication of wage rates ( A. L. Bowley was recruited for this purpose ) and investigation of labour conditions , including those in the sweated trades . |
| 2 | Not only did he do stupendous work in many areas of pure mathematics but he also devoted much time to probability , theory of errors , geodesy , mechanics , electromagnetism , optics and even actuarial science ! |
| 3 | In 1904 he sold part of his collection of eighteenth-century English water-colours to ( Sir ) Edward Marsh [ q.v. ] and thereafter devoted much time to his Botticelli studies , from 1905 living mostly in Florence , where he bought and restored an old palazzo , which became the Museo Horne after his death . |
| 4 | He was chairman of the finance committee of the royal jubilee exhibition in Manchester in 1887 , a JP for the city of Manchester and the county of Lancashire for over thirty years , and with his wife ( the daughter of William Crippin of Manchester ) devoted much time to philanthropic and charitable undertakings . |
| 5 | Over the next few years , it is true , both the Eden and Macmillan governments devoted much time and energy to schemes for partial demilitarization , disengagement , or confidence-building measures in the heart of Europe , schemes which were sometimes linked to the question of German reunification . |
| 6 | But the most ingenious theory is from Bishop Auckland historian John Land , who devoted much time to the Eden Theatre 's history and particularly its links with Stan Laurel . |
| 7 | Instead Mr Clinton devoted much time to a nightmare scenario of an America in the year 2,000 , struggling under huge interest payments on an escalating government debt . |
| 8 | ‘ I ‘ ar n't got much time . |
| 9 | Neither the captive nor her would-be liberator wasted much time complaining : these were the rules of the game , and the two of them could only be patient . |
| 10 | Not that her grandmother wasted much time preparing treats for her troublesome charge . |
| 11 | Few writers , however , wasted much time on theoretical justifications of this sort . |
| 12 | Leonard also had a little room in the basement in which a piano was kept , where they spent much time together . |
| 13 | In the summer of 1721 , Freville Lambton spent much time at Seaton Delaval , the grandest house in Britain , which Vanbrugh was building . |
| 14 | Its owner , Antonio Greppi , had social aspirations and spent much time and more money creating a fine façade and rooms so luxurious , and so dedicated to rich parties , that the city nobles came in droves . |
| 15 | Harrison spent much time visiting other clinics up and down the country advising on how they might be run more efficiently . |
| 16 | He bought a white 1964 Rover 2.6 Litre and spent much time speeding between Morrissey 's Kensington pad Manchester . |
| 17 | He has fittingly been given a measure of local immortality by Mrs Lavinia Mary Thwaites , who spent much time in the man 's jovial company . |
| 18 | Mr X found the sound of running water reduced his tinnitus ; on bad days he spent much time in the bathroom . |
| 19 | In gaol he refused to try to understand how he came to be there and during the years of his imprisonment spent much time sobbing in his cell as a desperately hurt child sobs . |
| 20 | With her was her bit on the side , one John Bryan , a financial wizard , all the way from Texas , who spent much time in close proximity , valuing her assets . |
| 21 | There are many historic and archaeological sites to visit including Osborne House , owned by the English Heritage , where Queen Victoria spent much time after the death of her beloved Albert . |
| 22 | While children ‘ followed their own interests ’ , the teaching staff , strong on ideals but weak in their implementation of them , spent much time engaged in heated debate with parents and with each other . |
| 23 | His second son , Lionel Duke of Clarence , had died in 1368 , and his third son , John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster , spent much time abroad in the early 1370s . |
| 24 | In 1939 , when the new double tubes were constructed , branching off the Bakerloo system , Ernest spent much time away from the school watching the digging of the new Metropolitan Lines under buildings at Finchley Road . |
| 25 | I was slightly built , and although I hated team sports and games , I spent much time in the school gym doing circuit training and fitness programmes . |
| 26 | He had had a good idea for a story the previous lesson and spent much time preparing a detailed picture to start it off . |
| 27 | He continued his serious studies , and spent much time visiting the sick as usual . |
| 28 | Of course , neither should we forget the shadowy Priory of Sion , the organisation that Lincoln spent much time on in his excellent bestseller The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail . |
| 29 | He spent much time visiting most states of the Union and acting as a super salesman for Iran . |
| 30 | She spent much time in Geneva , working on behalf of the women 's disarmament committee , which was preparing a petition for disarmament prior to the Geneva disarmament conference of 1932 . |