Example sentences of "good deal of time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Film historians have spent a good deal of time debating the significance of the gangster films and attempting to relate them to the whole ethos of the Wall Street crash and the onset of the depression . |
| 2 | The Authority spent a good deal of time trying to persuade such Boards to avoid deficits by raising tariffs to remunerative levels , but commercial disciplines were inevitably weakened by such dual responsibility and ad hoc decisions . |
| 3 | I have spent a good deal of time trying to improve cost-efficiency without detracting too greatly from the service you enjoy , and I trust this is an acceptable compromise . |
| 4 | On the whole , radio stations are friendlier places than TV stations and have a good deal of time to fill with non-controversial general interest material . |
| 5 | As a fellow Australian and all-round boozer , Flynn took a tremendous liking to Finch , and , not surprisingly , they spent a good deal of time drinking together . |
| 6 | The librarian continues to base selection and stock revision programmes on catalogue records which are no longer accurate , and wastes a good deal of time searching for books which are no longer in circulation . |
| 7 | In most day units , whatever they are called , attenders normally spend a good deal of time chatting to other attenders or sitting about watching the world go by , doing nothing very much . |
| 8 | This was not quite so convenient for her , and she spent a good deal of time travelling back and forth in her carriage . |
| 9 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield spends a good deal of time travelling up and down the country proclaiming his devotion to training and enterprise councils . |
| 10 | ‘ At my age you do n't need much sleep by night , and I spend a good deal of time sitting by the bedroom window , smoking my pipe and watching the sea … |
| 11 | Even though , as readers of the fabliaux , we may spend a good deal of time smiling at the preposterous ingenuity of gross deceptions and misdeeds — in other words things that are generically wrongs in terms of conventional Christian morality — we have already seen that substantial elements of positive Christian spirituality and conventional morality are widely represented amongst the French fabliaux . |