Example sentences of "the more time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more times we successfully complete a manoeuvre , the more opportunity we are giving the mind to reproduce the same movements . |
| 2 | He is right — the more times a golfer is in contention , the more often he will lose . |
| 3 | Just dial any of the above numbers , the more times you enter the better chance of winning ! ! |
| 4 | significantly , the more time that bands take becoming successful is often reflected by their longer stay at the top . ’ |
| 5 | The ‘ change of life-style ’ argument is unsound because the change is not necessarily greater the further you fly or the more time zones you cross . |
| 6 | The slower the growth , the more time AT&T will have to strengthen the challenge to OS/2 from its rival Unix operating system . |
| 7 | A number of those with their own businesses commented that the more their wives undertook on the farm the more time they themselves had to earn off-farm income . |
| 8 | The more time you have to concentrate on training , the quicker the results will be . |
| 9 | The more time in the day the patient is idle , the more he is likely to sink into a torpor of laziness . |
| 10 | The more unnecessary journeys you can cut out , the more time you can save . |
| 11 | The more time you spend with horses observing their behaviour , the more effectively you will be able to judge their moods . |
| 12 | The more time we have had to consider the GCSE , the less revolutionary in any true sense it seems to be . |
| 13 | ( 8 ) The more female ducks the males have to look at the more time they spend looking at them . |
| 14 | The larger the flock , the less time individual doves spend peeking and the more time sleeping . |
| 15 | The more time another male spends close to the Female , the more the courting male pecks at the cloaca . |
| 16 | The opportunist housebreaker will not shirk from breaking a window , of course , but the more levels of protection you create , the more time it will take him — which is a risk he may not wish to take . |
| 17 | Second , most workers believe that the more time they spend searching for a job , the more likely it is that they will obtain one which meets their requirements , particularly in so far as the wage rate and working conditions are concerned . |
| 18 | The more time to see it approach . |
| 19 | The longer the tube stays on the pump , the harder the vacuum , but the more time and money spent in production . |
| 20 | Thus the more time it took to program a job , the more likely that programming and operating were differentiated . |
| 21 | The more a person is integrated into a close-knit social network , the more time they spend speaking to the same group of people and the less they spend in contact with others who might change their speech . |
| 22 | Of course the more time available the better . |
| 23 | The sad fact is that many of these ‘ irruptive ’ birds spend their last days in the islands , because if they do not move on immediately while they still have the strength , the more time they spend searching for what is n't there , the less chance there is of their being able to make another long sea crossing . |
| 24 | The more time you have spent making notes from lectures or from books and rewriting and ordering those notes , the greater the importance that material will be to you . |
| 25 | The more time given to the agency , the more likely it is to provide a satisfactory response . |
| 26 | The dilemma can be expressed as follows : the more accessible teachers seek to make themselves to all their pupils as individuals , the less time they have for direct , extended and challenging interaction with any of them ; but the more time they devote to such extended interaction with some children , the less demanding on them as teachers must be the activities they give to the rest ; and the less demanding an activity is of their time and attention as teachers , the more the likelihood that the activity in question will demand little of the child . |
| 27 | The more that is desired , the more time it is likely to take to produce the annual report . |
| 28 | The more time he spent with Jeopardy , the more he realised Jeopardy only ever saw people as extensions of his work . |
| 29 | So the finer it is the more time or expense it is to knit it . |
| 30 | As Fig. 2 shows , the lower the median age at first marriage in a country , the more time elapses until the first birth occurs . |