Example sentences of "spend less time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's concentrate on the important , serious issues and spend less time worrying about such matters as the quality of the beer . |
| 2 | His arrival suggests that Mr Bush will appear more often on television , spend less time at his Maine seaside retreat , and less time playing with his dogs . |
| 3 | Older people spend less time out of the house , on the street where the bulk of criminal activity occurs . |
| 4 | Let's hope the pessimism of the last edition is firmly left behind — perhaps with Edward Pearce — and that thinkers like Stuart Hall spend less time applauding the Tories and much more time helping to rid us of what he calls this ‘ nightmare ’ . |
| 5 | Some American analyses have indicated that their average life span may be as much as 10 years longer than that of meat eaters and they spend less time in hospital . |
| 6 | Current experimental work with mothers and infants sleeping together in sleep laboratories is tracing the interaction of their patterns of breathing , and has found that in such conditions infants spend less time in deep stages of sleep . |
| 7 | High achievers report less physical illness and spend less time discussing their ailments . |
| 8 | So you spend less time travelling and more time enjoying . |
| 9 | You spend less time searching for a place to work and more time actually working . |
| 10 | So they spend less time searching for you and more time in your company . |
| 11 | However , the proportion of women who are full-time housewives has significantly dropped during the post-war period and , since married women who have paid employment spend less time on housework than those without paid work , this means that overall , there has been a significant decline in the amount of time the average woman will spend doing housework . |
| 12 | Now with the motorcycles they spend less time travelling and they can spend more time in the villages doing their educational and health work . |