Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps if you spent less time lurking behind doors ? ’ |
| 2 | Not that we had much time for feeling anything , we were so busy in the Met Office just then . |
| 3 | I had had nothing to read for three months , and now that we had some time to ourselves reading was a good way of distracting myself from the immediacies of life around me . |
| 4 | The chancellor would do well if he spent more time worrying about whether New York 's children are learning the three Rs — subjects in which they are sadly deficient . ’ |
| 5 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 6 | It meant however that we had little time to relate our studies at any deep level to Buddhism , but it seemed unanswerable that people must have a deep understanding of their own faith before they can go on to study that of other people . |