Example sentences of "[vb past] more time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the time spent teaching was said to be similar on most wards , the trained staff on a good ward devoted more time to supervision , practical demonstrations and participation in ward reporting sessions . |
| 2 | Mr. Gow : While recognising the undoubted right of all members of the General Synod to deeply held views for or against the policies of the present Government , would it be helpful if my right Hon. Friend were to point out to the General Synod that its reputation would be enhanced if its members , when in Synod , devoted more time to matters spiritual than to matter political ? |
| 3 | If the returns from farming dropped more time could be spent in the forest with consequent improvement in the level of management . |
| 4 | The delay in 10 cities had in many instances allowed more time for local coalitions to be negotiated . |
| 5 | Newton spent more time and energy on alchemical speculations than on the scientific discoveries which galvanised the Western world : Storr reconstructs the neurotic drive which impelled him to heroic intellectual feats . |
| 6 | The total number , though far higher than in earlier studies , is not so significant ; after all , we spent more time tracking in deep water than all previous studies put together . |
| 7 | Bakeman and Brown found that mothers of preterm babies spent more time actively coaxing responses from their infants ; that joint communication was more likely to be initiated by full-term babies ; and that the flow of action between the four states was more varied and less predictable among full-term babies and their mothers . |
| 8 | Research by other scientists showed that birds spent more time on the nest and laid more eggs when peckable objects were attached to the wall beside it . |
| 9 | They spent more time on their feet than they did sitting . |
| 10 | The chancellor would do well if he spent more time worrying about whether New York 's children are learning the three Rs — subjects in which they are sadly deficient . ’ |
| 11 | Vincent 's father spent more time ministering to the Catholic majority than to his own Protestant flock in the Brabant . |
| 12 | A large management accounts team spent more time ‘ number-crunching ’ than interpreting the figures . |
| 13 | As Niki relates it , Chiti spent more time looking after two score stray dogs that roamed through the Alfa factory than he did making sure his engines actually ran . |
| 14 | We probably spent more time watching what happens in facilities where care is provided for the elderly than anyone has done before . |
| 15 | But , having said that , as I got older and spent more time with my father I began to learn more about him . |
| 16 | The more weak-willed of the defenders very often spent more time watching the native princes eating their banquets than they did watching the enemy lines . |
| 17 | During the United Nations International Women 's Year in 1975 , the Salvadorean government spent more time and much more money on ensuring that the Miss Universe beauty contest went off without a hitch , than on debating the issues of discrimination against women . |
| 18 | Sebastian spent more time out of the house . |
| 19 | Molly spent more time with the Corduroys and was introduced to the Tapscotts , a white-haired couple : Nicholas , who had been the British Consul in Florence , and his wife Connie . |
| 20 | The poorest families who spent more time at home , like the unemployed , were having anything up to £35 per week from their Social Security Benefits deducted and paid direct to the fuel companies to cover fuel debts . |
| 21 | He spent more time hanging out at Jacqueline 's flat . |
| 22 | As the record company , and its revenue from worldwide licensing deals , became more important , so Branson spent more time with Simon Draper and less and less with Nik Powell . |
| 23 | Ca n't think what people see in them , ’ he added darkly , referring to the fact that most of the Zoo visitors who came by the Cages spent more time looking at the vultures than they did at African eagles like him . |
| 24 | He did not feed this to the eagles but sat and ate it himself , and spent more time staring into the deserted depths of Minch 's cage than any other . |
| 25 | The local doc — the guy who 'd helped save Andy after he almost died under the ice all those years earlier — was on holiday at the time and there was a locum , a deputising doctor in charge of the practice , except from what the locals muttered later it seemed he 'd treated his stay in Strathspeld as a holiday , too , and spent more time on river banks with a rod in his hands than at bedsides toting a stethoscope . |
| 26 | And Tucker was saying , ‘ He spent more time in the islands these past years than ever before . |
| 27 | Cartwright and O'Brien found that doctors spent more time and discussed more problems with middle-class than with working-class patients . |
| 28 | They are broadly consistent with those from earlier studies carried out in other parts of the country except that children in the present study spent more time waiting for attention , in spite of the presence of an unprecedented number of support teachers and other ancillary staff and helpers . |
| 29 | Boys were more often distracted , and also spent more time waiting for attention from their teachers . |
| 30 | In maths and language they were less distracted and spent more time on work and routine activities , although in art the pattern was reversed : older children were more often distracted and did less work . |