Example sentences of "[det] [pron] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Half my time is spent with visiting new and on-going clients , a quarter visiting relatives and other professionals involved , and a quarter recording , planning , attending ward rounds , etc — but it changes from week to week . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But I do have to see that the servants do everything , and since they all seem to leave as soon as they 've saved up enough money , half my time is spent finding replacements and training them . |
| 3 | No wonder I 'm not getting anywhere when I have to spend half my time holding my tie in place to cover the gap ! |
| 4 | ‘ If Father agreed , I 'd spend half my time with you . |
| 5 | I spend half my time down in town there sorting out the problems ! |
| 6 | Spaniards remain insouciant about their currency ( so often a country 's virility symbol ) partly because , during Franco 's dictatorship , the state-owned press used to spend half its time explaining why the latest devaluation was a good thing . |
| 7 | She now spends half her time working in the Comic Relief office in New Oxford Street , London , when she is not doing her ‘ telly stuff . ’ |
| 8 | Of the remaining 21 , seven said they spent under half their time on training , and 14 said they spent between half and three-quarters of their time . |
| 9 | THE PUNK generation now spend half their time whining about the smothering blanket of baby boomer nostalgia . |
| 10 | The Balinese are remarkable in that they give but half their time to the chores of food and shelter ; the rest is devoted simply to the celebration of life . |
| 11 | That is why reporters at Westminster spend half their time drinking in the bars or taking politicians out to lunch and dinner . |
| 12 | In 1794 wool combers were accused of working only half their time for a wage of 10s ( 50p ) when 25s ( £1.25p ) was within their reach . |
| 13 | Presbytis melalophos ( banded leaf-monkey ) at Kuala Lompat and P. rubicunda ( red leaf-monkey ) at Sepilok spend about half their time eating leaves , favouring high-protein , low-fibre foliage found especially in young leaves . |
| 14 | At Los Tuxtlas , howlers spend half their time collecting fruits of 19 species with a preference for those of certain Moraceae and Lauraceae . |
| 15 | Fernandez back-pedalled on the Rainbow Curriculum , and waited for New York State to confirm that teachers could n't be forced into spending half their time for sex education on counselling abstinence . |
| 16 | The fearful heat of the city seemed to encourage him to sleep half his time away and she had never felt more English than when she observed his devotion that summer to the long siesta . |
| 17 | The proprietor 's brother was the only employee and , although a married man with a family , he seemed to spend more than half his time delivering orders on the almost universal tradesman 's bike , with its large wicker basket and the triangular sign carrying the owner 's name fixed to the frame . |
| 18 | To hear Mario talk about him , Brawner was one of those woolly American health freaks : suffering from chronic asthma he spent half his time talking about pollen counts and his symptoms . |
| 19 | How can he be expected to run the country when half his time is spent waiting for people who never turn up ? |
| 20 | But the stab man , and the man on piecework rates … has got to do it , possibly spending more than half his time in trying to decipher it . |
| 21 | It has been calculated that while Stapledon spent just under half his time before the 1320s in his diocese , once he became treasurer barely a tenth of his time was passed at Exeter ; he relied instead upon the machinery of deputies to maintain his authority and execute his wishes there . |
| 22 | Why does he have to spend half his time with that drunken , brassy bitch ? |
| 23 | Bringing commerce to the Province is part of it , he spends half his time with continental businessmen , Krauts and Dutchmen and Italians . |
| 24 | ( 4 ) Each manager must hold at least one ordinary share in Newco and work for more than half his time in the " management or conduct of the company " or an associated company ; alternatively he must own more than 5% of the ordinary share capital of Newco ( the " material interest " test ) ; for these purposes , the shareholdings of any associate of an individual manager are aggregated with his holding ; " management or conduct of the company " ( rather than its business ) connotes the function of directors and senior managers , so other employees and middle management will not be able to obtain relief , since they are unlikely to have a sufficient holding in Newco to satisfy the material interest test . |
| 25 | Er , then back to depot in forty five minutes because you work your way back up you know , towards , back towards the depot , you 're talking three hours forty five minutes , and exactly half your time is just spent on the road . |
| 26 | Then swears we 've idled half our Time away : |
| 27 | We spend half our time trying to escape the worries of adulthood , so it does n't make sense to rush children into it . |
| 28 | ‘ When I think how it was when I joined up … you 're not so badly off down in Florence where at least you 've got a central canteen , but ever since we 've had to do without a resident housekeeper in the smaller stations we 've had to spend half our time teaching mothers ’ boys to cook pasta . ’ |
| 29 | I 'd done nearly all me time in Styal , you know , and then the last thing they sent us out . |
| 30 | ‘ Lucy , ’ said Jay , ‘ you have all my time . ’ |