Example sentences of "[prep] time on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time after time on his Scottish travels he conjured original ideas from his encounters with the unfamiliar . |
| 2 | Last Christmas , having loads of time on my hands over the holidays , I decided to take the plunge and make one at least as nice theirs . |
| 3 | GPs probably spend a similar proportion of time on patients who are not in immediate danger . |
| 4 | Unless you have a fair experience of building handicrafts and a lot of time on your hands , you will probably need to hire a builder , and you should take as much care over this as possible since the quality of building work varies very substantially indeed , and two different firms of builders , next to each other in the ‘ Yellow Pages ’ may reflect totally different standards and attitudes . |
| 5 | That left a large space of time on Saturday where there was little possibility of establishing that Peter Yeo had been where he said he was . |
| 6 | ‘ He spends a lot of time on his own , ’ Emily said in a brisk tone . |
| 7 | For a start , I spent a lot of time on my own , or with London friends . |
| 8 | In an age of greater leisure , it meets the needs of a society with an increasing amount of time on its hands . |
| 9 | They know that they will get their allotted portion of time on the news , whether or not they say or do anything newsworthy . |
| 10 | In fact when you enter a large mental hospital you do enter a special kind of world , a village with streets and sign posts , and usually , for in such places , everyone has plenty of time on their hands , no shortage of people willing to direct you to where you want to go . |
| 11 | Indeed , it has actually been an idea of mine for some time that the retaining of unnecessary numbers simply for tradition 's sake — resulting in employees having an unhealthy amount of time on their hands — has been an important factor in the sharp decline in professional standards . |
| 12 | His familiar way of observing things from a distance while highlighting a small detail — described in a different context by Hardy himself when he wrote , ‘ If I were a painter , I would paint a picture of a room as viewed by a mouse from a chink under the skirting ’ , and by the modern poet and critic Tom Paulin when he talks of Hardy wearing his imagination like a miner 's lamp — was now enriched by the workings of memory and the passage of time on the original observation . |
| 13 | In his responsiveness to temporal processes he differed from many of his contemporaries and we can look upon him as the forerunner in literature of those , like Spenser and Shakespeare in the late sixteenth century , who were greatly concerned with the irreversible effects of time on the human mind and Spirit . |
| 14 | They did n't have a lot of time on it and it was effectively an engineer/producer , rather than a producer . |
| 15 | So , it does n't need the rigorous coaching of , for example , athletics to improve , merely plenty of time on one board learning how it behaves . |
| 16 | Take a seat aboard a flying desk and spiral backwards through the corridors of time on an exciting journey of discovery ; the story of Oxford University is uncovered to reveal its remarkable impact on Western civilisation . |
| 17 | The increase in rank of coaly ( vitrinitic ) material is essentially a temperature controlled reaction with little evidence for the significant influence of time on the process ( Price , 1983 ) . |
| 18 | That 's a lot of time on the flat stages , not so much on the fierce and extended mountain climbs that are to come . |
| 19 | These include the relativistic dependence of time on velocity and the strange new features of time in black holes , as well as the ambiguity of direction of time that has emerged in the mathematical description of the interactions of elementary particles . |
| 20 | But we have an officer designated ‘ staff officer ’ who spends 50% of time on training ’ . |
| 21 | Uncle Joe used to advise local farmers on sheep-breeding and had spent a lot of time on Tina 's family farm . |
| 22 | I 've spent a lot of time on this . ’ |
| 23 | Each of us consumed quite a bit of time on the complications . |
| 24 | Having spent a great deal of time on learning to hover in the ‘ safe base ’ position , you will reach a point where your carefully acquired reflexes begin to work against you . |
| 25 | Desperate to halt the march of time on face and figure , Streep is directed to a large Gothic mansion where mysterious Lisle Von Rhuman ( Isabella Rossellini in large gilt choker and very little else ) sells her the Elixir of Eternal Youth . |
| 26 | This makes the statement easier for your customer to understand and reconcile and will help you be paid faster , as well as saving a lot of time on queries . |
| 27 | He has a lot of time on his hands . |
| 28 | The match will provide Ipswich with a chance to give some of the players who have spent a considerable amount of time on the bench with some badly needed match practice . |
| 29 | I spend a lot of time on the bathroom scales — too much time — I really should throw them away ! |
| 30 | Although they feel ‘ cut off ’ from the mainstream of the knitting world , the knitters are very imaginative and prepared to spend a lot of time on one garment — and it shows ! |