Example sentences of "[det] more time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others have to be left until the weather improves and/or we have some more time ; even so , spring is a good time to rethink your routine and perhaps make next winter easier to get through . |
| 2 | I got a call from the Chairman of a company , asking if I would be willing to spend some more time — on learning to use a completely new keyboard used by the then-new British system called Microwriter . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you wish to order now , or do you need some more time to add up the calories ? ’ |
| 4 | The detailed mechanism of these currents has kept lots of physicists busy ever since Ampère made the hypothesis , but apparently some more time is needed to find a proper solution . |
| 5 | We spent some more time moving around Leicester , going from tavern to tavern trying to discover if anyone else had seen Irvine 's strange companion . |
| 6 | Er , I think as the other previous document was usefu useless , this is useful , and I mean , I think it 's er something we ca n't take in a day and night , to spend , to spent some more time over this , because , yo you know , it does reflect very well on , on er , particularly that er , information that we needed earlier , in terms and and er . |
| 7 | Erm and I really want to I will build up some more time but I have n't got any to take at the moment . |
| 8 | When I 've got some more time I 'm going to offer my services again . |
| 9 | A few more times and you 'd get it . |
| 10 | However , Sally did try sniffing a few more times ( fortunately , without coming to any harm ) but then decided it was n't for her , and instead started drinking alcohol with her friends . |
| 11 | She began to feel that if she did this a few more times she would get the hang of it . |
| 12 | I went along a few more times , but just sat there in silence . |
| 13 | The speaker scraped and clicked a few more times , but after half a minute of no reply the phone was rehooked . |
| 14 | Turkey Lurkie blew his beak loudly and sniffed a few more times . |
| 15 | He flicked the switch up and down a few more times . |
| 16 | In a high-context culture business meeting , for instance , the parties may spend much more time establishing friendship and mutual trust rather than discussing the particular item of business . |
| 17 | ‘ We hope they will resume talks , but we can not waste much more time . |
| 18 | By contrast , a ‘ Solarz for President ’ campaign sounds improbable : the congressman has spent much more time in Asia than in Iowa . |
| 19 | As a first step in the reform of teacher training , postgraduate students will spend much more time in school classrooms , learning their skills under the practised eye of senior teachers . |
| 20 | Most of us need to spend much more time talking with children and listening to them . |
| 21 | Actually , there was a footpath through Wardle Wood from near her village , and if she had dared to go along it she could have walked to Brownies in not much more time than it took her to ride by way of the long winding lane ; but she was sure she had n't the courage to go through the witch 's wood by herself . |
| 22 | Such advisers will certainly be expected to spend much more time in schools and to ensure that the demands of the National Curriculum are being met . |
| 23 | ‘ So much more time is spent practising , particularly the short game , which the amateurs seem to overlook … |
| 24 | Furthermore , although it 's much more time consuming to properly achieve this type of finish , there is no extra cost incurred by the prospective owner . |
| 25 | Let's hope the pessimism of the last edition is firmly left behind — perhaps with Edward Pearce — and that thinkers like Stuart Hall spend less time applauding the Tories and much more time helping to rid us of what he calls this ‘ nightmare ’ . |
| 26 | His original plan had been largely dependent on much more time to play with , and involved a much closer personal interplay between himself and the young pilot . |
| 27 | One or two tribes have been given much more time on the radio than others . |
| 28 | But , in the nature of things , old people spend much more time indoors . |
| 29 | ‘ Rogal Dorn has blessed you with wisdom , ’ Lexandro said airily , knowing full well that Tundrish spent much more time in the scriptories than praying in cell or chapel . |
| 30 | There was less violence , the ‘ appels ’ were not so severe , and we spent much more time in the classroom doing theoretical work for our exams . |