Example sentences of "have more time " in BNC.

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1 A more gentle upbringing means that the animal has more time to build up the reserves of fat necessary to lubricate the meat .
2 And because a bored person has more time to think about himself and his problems , those physical results of stress may well progress more rapidly in him than in the person whose mind is always on other things .
3 and I do n't think anybody has more time in in four weeks time
4 It can be easily executed from either the leading foot or the back foot , but a roundhouse kick delivered from the rear leg is the more powerful , it has more time to gather speed .
5 I would like to thank them all for their gifts and their good wishes , ’ said Dorothy , who is looking forward to cultivating a few hobbies now that she has more time .
6 He does sometimes get into a ‘ delayed ’ mood where he thinks he has more time than he does … the reason for the square/back passes I reckon is noone moves into space for him or looks for it up front .
7 Had BR had more time and more funding , had the government been more sympathetic towards the railway investment and had there been no recession , the APT might have eventually been successful — but that is another story .
8 Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized .
9 indeed visiting headteachers said to the young teachers from university , polytechnic and college courses in September 1989 , ‘ You tell us about it — inevitably you have had more time to learn about it than we have . ’
10 I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home .
11 She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession .
12 The Executive Committee discussed the case at several further meetings and decided to re-examine it when Black 's solicitor should have had more time to ascertain the prospects of money compensation from the government for the injuries .
13 If he 's had more time between the engine signing off and the aircraft hitting the ground , he could probably have dumped the drop tanks and jettisoned the canopy .
14 Erm I suppose got here a bit later you would have had more time to sort this lot out .
15 Although responders may be biased towards independent , articulate individuals in employment , unemployed people may have had more time to reply , and this is supported by a higher response rate among women , who had a lower employment rate .
16 If only I 'd had more time .
17 He 'd had more time to think , to get used to this slightly absurd rapture .
18 Following further approaches from my hon. Friend , a direction was issued to South Glamorgan county council on 11 December requiring it not to approve the proposal until the Secretary of State had had more time to consider whether to call in the matter for his own determination .
19 Since I retired I 've had more time on my hands and I pass it , you might say , in reading and reflection on my area of interest .
20 I think would have probably , had more , if we 'd had more time and reversed all and been clearer on our roles .
21 Fran wished that it had been further away , wished that she 'd had more time to compose herself and remove all traces of that kiss , but as she opened the door and got out of the car when they stopped in front of the neat little semi she was aware of the throbbing redness of her bruised lips , the faintly dishevelled state of her silvery hair .
22 Yeah , well if we had , if we had of had more time we could 've , like , written each individual room but really I just put the numbers down quickly just to , to demonstrate
23 Constant hum , people started from the first day and they 've been flowing through ever since with a high point at the weekend when they 've had more time to come up to London to have a look at things look at things .
24 I would have done better if I 'd have had more time .
25 Some will revel in having more time for themselves ; others will feel lost .
26 My research indicates a variety of routes to class , trade union and gender consciousness and the probability of interaction between several factors : hardships experienced in a working-class childhood ; changes in household structure , such as taking over the ‘ man 's ’ role of breadwinner ; becoming involved in industrial action ; developing a new awareness of how social life is organised through contact with political or trade union ideologies ; and just growing older and having more time free from actual and ideological family constraints .
27 He was most anxious to know the result of his investigation and whether the cause of his pain could be treated without his having more time off work .
28 An exhausted Miranda found that instead of having more time , she had almost a full-time job keeping present and future shareholders informed and happy : she prepared official reports , gave institutional and pension-fund presentations , attended city lunches , and made time in her overfilled schedule for the financial press .
29 Sammy is already an accomplished player of the electric organ and looks forward to having more time for this and volunteer work .
30 Mrs Grove-Stephensen is leaving the post at the age of 60 and is looking forward to having more time to devote to church work .
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