Example sentences of "how [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We toasted the couple with champagne , sampled Jean-Paul 's cake ( not bad , considering how little time he had to make it ) and were allowed to throw confetti over the happy couple in their BBC function room — or was it really Grey Gables ? |
| 2 | Both pieces of research stress how little time is spent with adults and how much time is spent either teaching or in fragmented and relatively trivial administration at the expense of creating effective personal relationships and articulating a sense of common purpose . |
| 3 | It was amazing how little time children wasted . |
| 4 | I bet even they were surprised at how little time it took ! ’ |
| 5 | You know , I was on the phone to a customer for fifteen to twenty minutes because they 'd had a bad experience and I was actually making an appointment for Roy to go in and that twenty minutes is a long time , and I think really if anything , it 's just brought to me really , , how little time sometimes , it 's not always the case , it does vary , that , depending on the incoming calls , depending if you 've got got through the emerging paperwork for whatever reason , how little quality time perhaps you do actually spend on the phone , making outgoing calls to sell . |
| 6 | Note how this time the glider has a very pronounced inner wing-drop at the stall and tries to spin . |
| 7 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 8 | By how few times he has lost his way ? |
| 9 | Her response — such a lighting up of her face — made me remember how few times it was likely she had been kissed in her whole life : not as a child , by the parents who had given her away ; not by her old foster parents ; not often , I guessed , even by Beatrice and her boys . |
| 10 | How much time to I need to give ? |
| 11 | I think you 've got to be fair about how much time you give the family . |
| 12 | How much time was that going to take , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 13 | Knowing how much was there to start with and how much remains determines how much time has passed . |
| 14 | ‘ How much time have you got left for digging ? ’ |
| 15 | We ca n't really see , for instance , what help it is to the driver to know how much time he spent with wheelslip above the preset 18% limit . |
| 16 | Rosener ( 1978 ) finds much consideration in the literature of participation as an end in itself , and this is relatively easy to evaluate : how many clients participated ? what kinds of people ? how frequently ? how much time did they invest ? what were their attitudes ( and those of the workers ) to participation ? |
| 17 | How much time can preservation win for the object — is it worth it ? |
| 18 | It has been surprising , nevertheless , to find how much time is being devoted in schools and colleges to a subject of whose real identity there is no general agreement ( p. 2 ) . |
| 19 | Both pieces of research stress how little time is spent with adults and how much time is spent either teaching or in fragmented and relatively trivial administration at the expense of creating effective personal relationships and articulating a sense of common purpose . |
| 20 | It is my view that our generation has been much too preoccupied with the ‘ trimmings ' ; goodness knows how much time and energy has gone into the practising of accent and command of language , how many hours spent studying encyclopedias and volumes of ‘ Test Your Knowledge ’ , when the time should have been spent mastering the basic fundamentals . |
| 21 | In essence , it tells you how much time you have left before reaching the no-decompression limit and also how to manage decompression stops if you inadvertently exceed that limit , or elect to enter decompression . |
| 22 | For example , suppose the success of a meme depends critically on how much time people spend in actively transmitting it to other people . |
| 23 | In order to help the patient learn to judge distances , you can practise crossing roads with him , pointing out how far away any oncoming traffic is , and telling the patient whether there is time to cross the road , and , if so , how much time you have to get across . |
| 24 | It should also lead you to ask another vital check question : Exactly how much time have I got for the presentation ? |
| 25 | For presentations to senior management it is essential that you establish precisely how much time you are allowed , if necessary by asking the chairman . |
| 26 | Another innovation made in 1932 was a huge 45-minute clock which Chapman had installed at the north end of the ground so that players and spectators could see at a glance how much time was left for play . |
| 27 | Asked why Hulme , with an open goal before him , did not move up further to be certain of his target before shooting , he answered that the man on the field did not have as clear a view of the situation around him as did the spectator and was not always aware of how much time he had for his moves . |
| 28 | To attempt to calculate the cost for the long-stay psychogeriatric wards in the particular hospitals in the project would have involved an observational study of all the staff who had an input , for example doctors , nurses , occupational therapists , social workers , community psychiatric nurses , etc to see how much time they spent directly with the patients in the long-stay wards and how much time they spent indirectly in work connected with these patients such as in case conferences , meetings , administrative work , telephone calls and so on . |
| 29 | To attempt to calculate the cost for the long-stay psychogeriatric wards in the particular hospitals in the project would have involved an observational study of all the staff who had an input , for example doctors , nurses , occupational therapists , social workers , community psychiatric nurses , etc to see how much time they spent directly with the patients in the long-stay wards and how much time they spent indirectly in work connected with these patients such as in case conferences , meetings , administrative work , telephone calls and so on . |
| 30 | They will want to know how much time each teacher spends in front of the class and the size of classes in the different subjects and year groups . |