Example sentences of "deal of time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both parents were able to devote a great deal of time to their son , walking with him in the park or going for carriage drives , sometimes as far as La Malmaison , for which Napoleon III had a special affection because of its links with his mother and grandmother . |
| 2 | When Calder-Marshall and Malcolm Lowry first met it was the latter who felt flattered , but though Calder-Marshall was a generous friend , there is something poignant in Gordon Bowker 's comment in Malcolm Lowry Remembered that he has ‘ given a great deal of time to writing and speaking about him ’ . |
| 3 | Estimating the mass of all the matter in the Universe is not an easy task but , in the past few years , many scientists have devoted a great deal of time to it . |
| 4 | It was not disputed that teachers ought to be aware of the relation between educational success and failure and the language children being to school , or that some teachers need to give a good deal of time to the study of reading . |
| 5 | Soon this mood of despair evaporated under the influence of serene letters from Helen , who flourished among the intimate circle of artistic Bohemian young people — including the poet Charles Dalmon and the actor Franklin Dyall — who lived in Hammersmith and spent a great deal of time at Mrs Logan 's large house which had been furnished and decorated in William Morris style . |
| 6 | The secondary school to which they went on would then have an accurate record of what they could do , and could save a great deal of time at present wasted in the transition from one school to another . |
| 7 | The the erm a great deal of time at that enquiry was taken up with the alternative sites proposed by the Council erm and their suitability in relation to the . |
| 8 | The ribbon is made , and thenceforth she spends a great deal of time over her hair . |
| 9 | Constanze was to spend a good deal of time over the next two years at Baden , where her husband often visited her . |
| 10 | ‘ Both put a great deal of time into their jobs , ’ Bloch says , ‘ and prefer rapid promotion to security and congenial work . |
| 11 | ‘ I can hardly be expected to have a great deal of time for gardening , ’ she said , ‘ I am forced to pay out money for gardening help . ’ |
| 12 | Her father had always had a great deal of time for the Sally Ann . |
| 13 | His nature had been over-mature and he had been focused so much on his career that he had never had a great deal of time for his family . |
| 14 | ‘ It has certainly taken a great deal of time for myself and the other ten or so members of our committee . |
| 15 | Our piloting suggests that there is very little information here which could not be filled in out of the heads of appropriate teachers on these courses , so filling in the questionnaire should not cost a great deal of time for each person . |
| 16 | It took a good deal of time for me and it to get together . |
| 17 | The latter was more likely ; he did not seem to have a great deal of time for God . |
| 18 | Having spent a great deal of time on learning to hover in the ‘ safe base ’ position , you will reach a point where your carefully acquired reflexes begin to work against you . |
| 19 | The other thing they say , if they 're Terrans , or actually , especially if they 're not , is , Well , you must have spent a good deal of time on Good Old Mother Earth . |
| 20 | He spent a great deal of time on the telephone and he was often out of the house on various missions , not returning until late at night . |
| 21 | Many cathedral and other choirs spend a good deal of time on making recordings , and derive from them a modest but useful income . |
| 22 | While not stated overtly by most interviewees , although some were asked specifically about this , there was a tendency to use the word ‘ friend ’ to signify a pre-heroin relationship , whereas phrases such as ‘ this guy I know ’ and ‘ a bloke who lives around the corner ’ were used to describe a post-heroin use relationship even though the user might be spending a great deal of time with that person on a daily basis . |
| 23 | I spent a great deal of time with housemasters ( see Chapter 22 ) and hence I became interested in the kinds of problems they encountered and began to follow-up the children I saw regularly in their offices . |
| 24 | Compared to political leaders in other states , British Prime Ministers spend a good deal of time in the legislature . |
| 25 | The Stotherts have invested a great deal of time in their house . |
| 26 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
| 27 | Finally he would spend a great deal of time in preparing people for membership and in visiting members although here he could be helped by the deacons and stewards . |
| 28 | A qualified homoeopath will have studied for at least three years and will spend a great deal of time in compiling a detailed history of the patient , including character , antecedents , likes and dislikes and so on . |
| 29 | Both the Lord Lieutenant and the Chief Secretary were politicians and had to spend a good deal of time in London attending Cabinet and Parliament ; therefore the Under-Secretary , who was a Civil Servant , was the effective head of British Administration in Ireland for most of every year . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're spending a good deal of time in New York now , Mark . |