Example sentences of "have little time " in BNC.

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1 Except for Sting and George Michael ( 'wonderful voice , writes great songs ' ) , she has little time for most modern pop .
2 Particularly , she has little time for a group called Yello , the Swiss electro-band with whom she collaborated on a single last year , much in the way Liza Minelli and the Pet Shop Boys or Gene Pitney and Marc Almond have .
3 He retains the influence , if not the constitutional power , of a feudal monarch , has little time for Dr Mahathir and is related by marriage to the leader of Semangat '46 .
4 He lists no hobbies in Who 's Who ? but then again , he has little time , although he and his wife , Caroline , a high-flying recruitment consultant , are renowned ‘ foodies ’ .
5 The aggressiveness and competitiveness of capitalism has little time for his Christian sensibilities .
6 And , like Amy , Chelsea has little time for affairs of state .
7 Heseltine has little time left .
8 Examples of this reciprocal effect lie in the man who is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life or the woman who is so wrapped up in her children that she has little time for her husband .
9 David Pool has little time for the mystification of artists and their art , and his sole intent is to see the momentum of improvement roll of regardless of fragile egos .
10 Even in the off-season , McBride has little time to relax .
11 Waggoner supports the first theory , but has little time for the whiners .
12 He may be an MBE , but Moorhouse has little time for Britain 's sporting establishment .
13 Mr Houghton has come across protests , but has little time for their case or their tactics .
14 Like many women who have crashed through the glass ceiling — or , perhaps , ignored it — she is strongly opposed to positive discrimination in favour of women and has little time for the argument that women do n't succeed because they are women .
15 The extra cost of a harder and more lasting cutting edge was a wise investment — warriors would have had little time to re-sharpen their blades in the heat of battle !
16 So great had his concentration been on finishing the maps that Green had had little time to do anything else in those difficult years excepting for a brief visit to Buttermere in 1791 , and in 1793 he went to Wales and the Lake District with his stalwart helper Thornton ; but in 1794 he revisited Cumberland for twelve weeks two of which were devoted to Buttermere .
17 Such has been the pace of South Africa 's re-entry into the world arena that Rhodes and his team mates have had little time to be overawed by the situation , which for a youngster from a small town in Natal is quite remarkable .
18 Pearn and I were very concerned to ensure that the troops who would liberate Burma should know something of the country and its people , for the army that fought the retreat in 1942 had had little time to learn any of the background .
19 They had had little time to socialise and some had lost contacts with friends and neighbours as a direct result of being in full-time employment .
20 For the last year , I have had little time for writing , though I get something down on paper when I can .
21 ‘ We 've had little time to rest since Saturday , and with the temperature soaring past the mid-eighties , the training has been quite tough and very exhausting .
22 I 'm afraid I have had little time to entertain you or introduce you to Hochhauser .
23 She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other .
24 Watford will have little time to bask in their glory — manager Steve Perryman has pulled them in for training at lunchtime today .
25 Mr Sharif will have little time to think about the budget , which is due next week .
26 Up to 3,000 students at Bucharest Polytechnic , as well as demanding sweeping changes in education policy , expressed concern that the NSF was dominated by communists who were trying to ensure that they stayed in power by scheduling the elections so that the emerging political parties would have little time to organize .
27 Both Simon and Nigel had felt very uncomfortable , and the old bunch had been ‘ cliquey ’ , having little time for these less-affluent and state-educated newcomers .
28 He gave the impression of having little time for the Member , despite Grunte 's many years spent in the motor trade .
29 His mother , preoccupied with paying the bills , seemed to have little time and energy for her children — particularly Graham who , as the only boy , was a bitter reminder of her husband .
30 Further , Lorca , a gifted painter and pianist , had little time for the academic qua academe .
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