Example sentences of "spend much time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether there is any social morality or justice in such a system is not a matter which the detectives are given to question ; nor do they spend much time in reflecting on why some dubious property acquisition is outside their terms of reference , or what the relationship is of such practices to the maintenance of position and power . |
| 2 | What they do n't spend much time on is the way in which you are supposed to approach learning the new skills . |
| 3 | Nor do I spend much time listening to jazz . |
| 4 | But he did n't spend much time here . ’ |
| 5 | Although we need not spend much time on it , it is important to be clear that Marxism is atheistic . |
| 6 | So really , I do n't spend much time on it at all — five minutes maximum ! |
| 7 | Feminist psychologists acknowledge that low-status , female-identified traits , like nurturance and sociability , are also important for both sexes ; but they do not spend much time comparing men with women on these traits . |
| 8 | Finding no answers , partly because they do not spend much time looking for them , they assume that it can not be true ; the differences must be ‘ sufficiently deep and of sufficient significance to warrant , at least in a literate society , the continued emphasis on schooling and the acquisition of literacy ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 9 | " I do n't spend much time thinking about liking or not liking , " he said . |
| 10 | It is a Did you spend much time on that ? |
| 11 | As a profession , we in medicine do not spend much time thinking about our philosophy . |
| 12 | So do n't spend much time on that . |
| 13 | They might spend much time , therefore , patrolling their school and its classrooms , talking with children and offering comment to teachers . |
| 14 | ‘ Did you spend much time there ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You do n't spend much time here either , ’ she commented . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I did n't spend much time in Trob . |
| 17 | We could spend much time analysing the possible reasons for the failure of classroom multimedia in the 1970s . |
| 18 | He died in his studio ; did he spend much time there ? ’ |
| 19 | Please feel free to comment , I did n't spend much time on it and I 've still got that bloody hangover ! ! |
| 20 | So this is a digression just gon na whizz through it very quickly , we do n't really need to er , spend much time on it . |
| 21 | We will not spend much time on the syllabic pronunciation of these consonants . |
| 22 | Leonard also had a little room in the basement in which a piano was kept , where they spent much time together . |
| 23 | In the summer of 1721 , Freville Lambton spent much time at Seaton Delaval , the grandest house in Britain , which Vanbrugh was building . |
| 24 | Its owner , Antonio Greppi , had social aspirations and spent much time and more money creating a fine façade and rooms so luxurious , and so dedicated to rich parties , that the city nobles came in droves . |
| 25 | Harrison spent much time visiting other clinics up and down the country advising on how they might be run more efficiently . |
| 26 | He bought a white 1964 Rover 2.6 Litre and spent much time speeding between Morrissey 's Kensington pad Manchester . |
| 27 | He has fittingly been given a measure of local immortality by Mrs Lavinia Mary Thwaites , who spent much time in the man 's jovial company . |
| 28 | Mr X found the sound of running water reduced his tinnitus ; on bad days he spent much time in the bathroom . |
| 29 | In gaol he refused to try to understand how he came to be there and during the years of his imprisonment spent much time sobbing in his cell as a desperately hurt child sobs . |
| 30 | With her was her bit on the side , one John Bryan , a financial wizard , all the way from Texas , who spent much time in close proximity , valuing her assets . |