Example sentences of "time spend " in BNC.

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1 I loved meeting the people , and the times spent drawing amongst friends in their homes were the most memorable .
2 The times spent in Cape Town were certainly among the happiest highlights of my cricketing travels .
3 I watch intently for a half-hour , seeing how often the chub move out of the darkness and into the light , and that the time spent there is more or less the same on each occasion .
4 The sweater is very simple and yet with a little time spent you can produce a complex looking garment .
5 The only time spending on the national health service has been cut was when the Labour party was in power .
6 In How Prints Look , first published in 1943 , he wrote ‘ an elementary introduction to the appearances ( the outward and visible signs ) of prints ’ , and cautioned that : ‘ Most of the time spent over it should be given to looking at its pictures . ’
7 Time spent looking for toy cannon .
8 Later that evening Henry , who was a firm believer that time spent in reconnaissance was seldom wasted , raised the matter of the dinner party with his brother-in-law .
9 Time spent puzzling how to avoid these problems is time wasted which you could use for looking around more .
10 I know several inspectors who have refused a college scholarship , arguing that the time spent away from the force was time spent in structural limbo , and it has become almost a common adage that time away is time lost in ‘ the promotion stakes ’ .
11 I know several inspectors who have refused a college scholarship , arguing that the time spent away from the force was time spent in structural limbo , and it has become almost a common adage that time away is time lost in ‘ the promotion stakes ’ .
12 There is a version of the roundhouse kick which reduces the time spent turned away from the opponent .
13 The time spent at his summer jobs — perhaps not least that spent in his uncle Lawrence 's brass foundry reinforced this view .
14 The length of time spent stretching depends on the sport you are training for and the degree of flexibility you wish to attain .
15 My grandfather had always taken a keen interest in my work , and I had an equal admiration of the stories of his time spent in Burma during the Second World War .
16 The White Paper implies that waiting lists will be reduced by increased efficiency — often meaning more operations and shorter periods of time spent in hospital by patients .
17 Here , unfortunately , no restaurant area is yet available to allow customers to eat what they buy where they buy it , but the time spent waiting for a takeaway sandwich will be an invaluable education in Italian food .
18 But time spent on science was still inadequate .
19 The primary purpose was to reduce the costly time spent on oral argument in so far as that was not necessary for the proper determination fo the appeal .
20 The sheer length of time spent in the field ensured that this , too , lost its novelty .
21 That anyone could dream up the notion of quantifying time spent on prayers was indicative of the ‘ scientific ’ attitude of the central authorities , to whose actions in 1922 we now turn briefly before considering the middle level of the local party men in Smolensk .
22 Tony had just returned from Iceland , his epic cycle tour , and I was back from Switzerland , buoyed up by time spent working at the Research Station on the Jungfraujoch .
23 It is easy to say that the time spent considering the Matisse is time better spent than that spent considering a Gerasimov , let alone a Bouguereau .
24 But what of time spent otherwise ?
25 fatigue increases and mental performance worsens as the amount of time spent on the task increases , particularly if we have lost sleep or the task is repetitive and boring .
26 Fatigue contributes to the fall-off in performance that occurs as the time spent awake ( or on duty ) increases .
27 The laboratory experiments also exclude the time spent on the actual flight itself .
28 The time spent getting to know other Berlin servicemen away from the more common disciplined environment is good for both sides , and helps to generate a good relationship between the police and the military community .
29 To Charles he was an indispensable source of wisdom and experience and he relished the time spent in his company .
30 The Prince felt he was in the company of someone very special , took great delight in time spent talking to him , and was inspired by all that he heard .
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