Example sentences of "[noun] of a [noun] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , this is me with the Geiger counter looking for radioactive traces on the moor , nothing much actually , so in the end it was a bit of a waste of time ’ ) . |
| 2 | Even Owen , adventurer as he was , thought the codes a bit of a waste of time . |
| 3 | I feel they 're a little bit of a waste of time … the course I 'm doing , I 'm gaining knowledge which I can use ; which , I mean , you ca n't really use a history degree unless you 're going to be an archaeologist or an historian or a teacher . |
| 4 | I mean I know there 's been a lot of debate and I know that er you may feel it 's been a bit of a waste of time |
| 5 | Erm , of course it has to be remembered that all these lectures , or at least most of them , were erm voluntary compulsion and the men used to turn up because they were told to and er whether or not they showed little or no interest very often and it was all erm well a bit of a waste of time . |
| 6 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 7 | Erm , at which point influencing has somewhat become a bit of a waste of time . |
| 8 | a bit of a waste of time ! |
| 9 | The timely award of an extension of time may avoid problems which might arise at a later stage when a contractor submits a claim for taking extraordinary measures to recover lost time owing to the late issue of an instruction , for example . |
| 10 | .. sounds like discharges of artillery at intervals of a second of time , and a crackling noise , probably due to the impact of fragments in the atmosphere . |
| 11 | In place of a unity of time came the notion of discrete temporalities , with a recognition of a historicity proper to each discipline or area of knowledge . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , in spite of an investment of time , effort and money , the final product did not reach the bureaux . |
| 13 | We dash abroad at least twice a year ( we dashed over to California last November ) and we dash down South to my daughter 's in Hampshire umpteen times a year and we dash seemingly everywhere in the wake of our grandchildren when on school holidays or visiting but I ( if not so much Bett ) also spend a heck of a lot of time just watching ( I prefer to call it scientifically observing ) the world around me and contemplating . |
| 14 | We put a hell of a lot of time and effort into feeding your crowd detail on the Provos on your side of the water , and trying to get your judges to extradite the bastards back here is harder than getting water out of rock . ’ |
| 15 | They 'd brought a poor young woman with a baby in a pushchair and we traipsed all around , in and out of houses , it was bitterly cold , and at the end of the exercise I felt we could have saved a hell of a lot of time . |
| 16 | The people that do this , spend a hell of a lot of time and energy doing it . |
| 17 | Trevor with respect you 've just wasted a hell of a lot of time for you and me have n't you ? |
| 18 | Oh that 's twice , a hell of a lot of time but er |
| 19 | Yes but it 's worse having a hell of a lot of time in there cos that 's what you 're |
| 20 | We are going through enormous changes in the education system at the moment and as Governors we have had to struggle terribly hard to learn how to govern schools as more power and more authority has been devolved to us , and we should have been spending this year erm working together on learning how to run a more successful school , and instead erm we 've had to waste a hell of a lot of time on really what was an absolute political nonsense and irrelevance , and I am glad we can turn aside from that . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyhow it no longer matters to you or to me , but whoever has the last laugh in the whole business is going to have to spend a hell of a length of time laughing . |