Example sentences of "time on this " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave much happiness to his family and friends during his abbreviated time on this earth . |
| 2 | I realized I would get no help from the Treasury and , indeed , I suspected that they could not understand why the department was wasting its time on this issue at all . |
| 3 | I 've had a hell of a time on this tour , you know . |
| 4 | Women and children often spend most of their day collecting water ; in the hilly areas of Kenya women spend nine-tenths of their time on this single task . |
| 5 | I 've spent a lot of time on this . ’ |
| 6 | And , if one accepts the concept that the spirit is journeying through many lifetimes in order to achieve that degree of evolution which makes it unnecessary to spend further time on this earth , then surely it must be essential to experience life both as a man and as a woman . |
| 7 | So it is worth regularly spending time on this exercise . |
| 8 | However , if you feel they 're spending too much time on this , you can have a hostile Ghost arrive and attack . |
| 9 | ‘ May I steal a few minutes of your time on this unique occasion and go back to November 22 , 1944 when nine Mosquitos from our Squadron were briefed to mark the U-Boat pens at Trondheim for 171 Lancasters . |
| 10 | My very sincere thanks to everyone involved in the Art in Nature Competition — thank you for choosing me , and giving me the opportunity to spend a little time on this magic island , which so generously allowed me to paint , and to enjoy , its special beauty . |
| 11 | Simon Pepper of the WWF said : ‘ We have had to recognise that having spent a considerable time on this project and having devoted considerable resources by our organisations , it has not been possible to secure the overall package which we considered necessary for going ahead . |
| 12 | I love shopping for excellent ingredients and would rather spend time on this than anything else . |
| 13 | I just , it 's just a sort of an idea at this stage , I 'm not wanting to take up ogres of time on this , but |
| 14 | another sort of six marks or maybe eight marks for the the end bit of the question , erm you 'd spent a bit of time on this . |
| 15 | I know I 've been a long time on this but I 'll I think it 's nearly there . |
| 16 | Having been frustrated in her 1988 cruise to Scandinavia , Islander headed north-east once more last summer and this time succeeded in passing through the Limfjord , sailing down the Kattegat and up into the Baltic as far as Stockholm before retracing her steps to visit Copenhagen for the second time on this voyage . |
| 17 | Erm t just to er well there was a l a certain lack of time on this thing , I mean , Dennis had to come round and tell us to start our tick-list else we were n't gon na . |
| 18 | ‘ So if I buy more time on this job , you stand to benefit . ’ |
| 19 | Most of Gould 's time on this first brief visit to Yarrundi was spent in pursuit of one particular bird — the Menura or lyre-bird that abounded in the cedar brush on the slopes of the Liverpool Range . |
| 20 | Time on this axis , and wages rates , rural wage or against urban wages . |
| 21 | This is difficult stuff I 'm not gon na spend a lot of time on this because it 's covered on various other courses as well . |
| 22 | I 'd expect them to be wasting their time on this foolish nonsense and not me . |
| 23 | I 've spent a lot of time on this job — or rather wasted a lot of time — it meant a great deal to me . " |
| 24 | But while the feud hots up , so does the trade , so it 's unlikely either landlord will call time on this bitter battle . |
| 25 | And I think that 's a , that 's a key message which I , I do n't know what spends time on this , how in fact we always accord other people more consideration than we do ourselves usually . |
| 26 | I think we we have quite some time on this one and I 'm sure you will all agree that a reply that we do not go down the road of a cabinet government . |
| 27 | Because I have on good information and I 'll say it for the first time on this programme , I intend to give this in my evidence tomorrow , that Rover intend to close not the south works first , but the north works first . |