Example sentences of "[noun] have [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , like Amy , Chelsea has little time for affairs of state . |
| 2 | This means that a 40 ton lorry travelling at 70 miles an hour has 53 times the destruction power and maiming power that is possessed by a 0.75 ton sports car travelling at the same speed . |
| 3 | Objects much greater than 1km in diameter do not fragment while traversing the Earth 's atmosphere , as an atmospherically induced pressure wave has insufficient time to cross the object before impact . |
| 4 | As I said earlier this year , there will not be enough of any one crop to give self-sufficiency , but the contribution this small plot has made to the good budget has ten times repaid the outlay on seeds and materials . |
| 5 | Each person in this cell has personal time allotted to use as he or she wants and this requires preparation and reflection beforehand . |
| 6 | Farmer Colin points out that this selfless operation is always carried out with a complete lack of regard for personal safety and reminds the committee that Josh has several times fallen off his load just outside the King 's Head . |
| 7 | In the secondary sector the disparities were even wider with the richest schools having thirty-seven times as much additional income as the poorest . |
| 8 | Robinson Crusoe was far too busy cultivating his island on the basis of hard work helped by all the capital goods he had salvaged from the shipwreck to have any time for fairy stories . |
| 9 | With entire responsibility for teaching and discipline , Hill had little time for original work ; but his edition ( 1816 ) of Artis Logicae Compendium by Henry Aldrich [ q.v. ] proved an acceptable university textbook , reaching a sixth edition in 1850 . |
| 10 | Kathleen had several times suppressed the thought that if they had telephoned to the doctor half a day earlier , Faith might . |
| 11 | Hertfordshire County Council has revealed that primary schools with the greatest additional funds had fourteen times the extra amounts available to the poorest schools . |
| 12 | Not that Bobby had much time for sea-bathing . |
| 13 | In her shorthand book , WPC Wright had ample time to write the word that Downes now shrieked ; write it in in long-hand , and in capitals . |
| 14 | It looks as though Richard had some time ago given up his insistence that Angoulême should be inherited by Vulgrin 's daughter Matilda . |
| 15 | Free neutrons are unstable , with a half-life of about 11 minutes , so as observed , the intensity drops off with time as the slower-moving neutrons had more time to decay . |
| 16 | Most sole traders have little time to spend on displays or promoting goods effectively |
| 17 | ShareLink , which claims to be Europe 's largest share dealing service , is open seven days a week : 8.30am to 6pm on weekdays , and 10am to 4pm at weekends , when many clients have more time to think about their investments . |
| 18 | The position and the number of the ridges so formed vary , but there is a tendency for the ridges at high and low neap tide levels to be the most permanent , as would be expected from the fact that the waves have more time to act at these levels than at intermediate levels . |
| 19 | Once the baby is settled , make sure the child has some time all to herself when she gets a cuddle and your undivided attention . |
| 20 | For example , a child might be told that certain behaviours will result in the loss of free time ; if the child misbehaves , the penalty creates a contingent relationship in which the child has less time to play . |
| 21 | The Parish Council has several times contacted Wyre Borough Council about this and I have letters from your department dated 24th January 1991 and 6 February 1991 on this matter . |
| 22 | GEMMA HAD TEN TIMES THE RISK |
| 23 | The National Child Development Study , a longitudinal study of a group of children born in 1958 , showed that the children of owner-occupiers had four times the chance of being in their own owned home rather than in a local authority rented home at age 23 in 1981 , compared with those children who were in the local authority sector at age 7 ( Social Trends 15 , Table 8.11 ; see also Jones , 1987 ) . |
| 24 | Most refugees have little time to prepare for life in a new country . |
| 25 | The aggressiveness and competitiveness of capitalism has little time for his Christian sensibilities . |
| 26 | The Labour party conference has three times voted to cut £6 billion from the defence budget , and we can see the extent to which that would devastate the defence industry and the defence of this country . |
| 27 | The possibility of obtaining loans from the Phnom Penh museum was then followed up by the curator in Asian art at the ANG , Doctor Michael Brand : ‘ Normally it would have been the ANG 's desire to have more time , but 1992 was chosen because the Japanese were trying to borrow some objects for a show to be held in 1993 . |
| 28 | He had been a deacon and church treasurer before coming to Darlington and he hopes in retirement to have more time for church work . |
| 29 | The rabbits in front went fast and Hazel had little time to sniff about as he followed . |
| 30 | In a comparison of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) nations , the high technology group had 1.49 times the sales growth , 2.8 times the productivity growth and 2.75 times the profit growth of the medium technology industries . |