Example sentences of "[art] more time " in BNC.

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31 If all input owners have a say in all decisions , decision-making is a costly process : the greater the number of decision-makers , the more resources are used up in sending out the information needed to make the decision ; and the more time is needed , in total , to give each person the opportunity to argue his preferred solution to any problem .
32 The more the threat the less worthwhile , the more time consuming and subjective ;
33 The more time and energy you give to developing residencies in hospitals and working with other people the less time there is for your own work .
34 The more time they took , the more time there was for a crowd to gather .
35 The more time they took , the more time there was for a crowd to gather .
36 The assessment of the acid clearance time could be a useful alternative to the more time consuming and uncomfortable overnight evaluation of pH .
37 Erm , it 's because you need land , and er , the bigger the area of land you 've got , the more time it takes to get your combine harvester from one side to the other er , and so on and so forth .
38 The historian normally wants a longer perspective and the more time passes , the more likely it is that research will be concerned with change over time rather than with a ‘ snapshot ’ of 1991 .
39 The lengthier the document the more time is saved .
40 The more time she spent with Miguel Rafaelo , the more she wanted to .
41 He gave warning that the longer the Council of Ministers waited before taking a decision on the former , the more time trading partners had to change their minds on the latter .
42 Now you can come in every day , and sit and sort out your bumf , but I always believe that the great British public are out there , so the more time you spend out there , the more profit you 're gon na make , there 's less profit being in the branch .
43 so the more time you 've got to do that , the easier it 'll be for you wo n't it ?
44 There was no more time for sight-seeing if I were to catch my train , but the helpful Matthews told me of martyr Sir Oliver Plunkett 's head , preserved in a church at Drogheda .
45 The initial reason must have been Protestant fears of what Henri II , using his daughter-in-law , might do after the treaty of Chateau-Cambrèsis ; the public Protestant call to arms and the private and tentative contact with England were part of the same desperate reaction to a situation which left the Protestants no more time to move slowly , and forced them into overt action against the regent — the representative of legitimate authority — and , perhaps , a covert move against her daughter — the legitimate authority .
46 In the same way , they took care to spend no more time together than the daily round of school life made appropriate , but the simple knowledge that there was now one person in the small , enclosed community who cared for him healed Richard 's wounded spirit .
47 It took no more time to produce the gas by the new method than it did using metals and acids .
48 But she had no more time for abstract thoughts .
49 Now it 's just a lost ending and no more time scramble .
50 There was no more time to redesign that feature of the building .
51 No more time , darling .
52 There is no more time .
53 I could n't stay with him any longer : there was no more time .
54 Left message with reception that I had only dealt with three calls — no more time to deal with any others .
55 ‘ Now , we gon na waste no more time .
56 ‘ Then let's waste no more time . ’
57 So he decided to waste no more time , and thrust the trapdoor up and back with his shoulders .
58 Already he had spent an hour wandering around the town — it needed no more time than that — trying to get the feel of the place .
59 She felt the heat of his skin against hers , the rising tide of hot passion overwhelming them once again , and there was no more time for gentle , slow lovemaking .
60 Mr Hill said : ‘ Mr McGregor appreciated something was not right but had no more time than a split second to begin to look round the corner of his chair when he was struck two extremely heavy blows to the base of his skull and the back of his neck by this defendant wielding a heavy fire extinguisher .
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