Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of time [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My profession was so time-consuming it was hard to spend the proper amount of time with them . |
| 2 | But researchers continued to show people spending large amounts of time at it . |
| 3 | Estimating the mass of all the matter in the Universe is not an easy task but , in the past few years , many scientists have devoted a great deal of time to it . |
| 4 | It took a good deal of time for me and it to get together . |
| 5 | Accordingly , on 12 June 1940 Lord Woolton , Minister of Food , despatched a memorandum to the Food Policy Committee of the War Cabinet in which he identified three groups in the population to whom food distribution should be improved : workers in factories ( ‘ if we are to obtain the maximum production over a long period of time from them ’ ) , people on low incomes and ‘ children of school age and under and nursing mothers whom , on grounds both of humanity and of racial preservation , it is essential we should protect against malnutrition ’ . |
| 6 | So many people have an interest in this topic and would therefore expect us to spend a good amount of time on it . |
| 7 | Spending even this short amount of time with him had been a big mistake . |
| 8 | saves an awful lot of time with us . |
| 9 | Cos we 've spent an awful lot of time on it . |
| 10 | And you could waste an awful lot of time on it . |
| 11 | It is the doing of one or more acts which individually or collectively amount to such adverse interference with or usurpation of the owner 's rights which constitute appropriation under section 3(1) and I do not think it matters where there is more than one such act in which order the successive acts take place , or whether there is any interval of time between them . |
| 12 | It 's best not to try and fit it in during school breaks because you need a continuous stretch of time at it . |