Example sentences of "[pron] be little time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's little time left . |
| 2 | Residents realise there 's little time to deal with a fire … |
| 3 | Residents realise there 's little time to deal with a fire … |
| 4 | There is little time for free play — most toys are used in structured group activities . |
| 5 | There is little time , and little scope for an in-depth analysis of the political-economic context of the conservation programme . |
| 6 | But where television-viewing is virtually unrestricted there is little time for reading , imaginative or realistic play , for making things or talking to parents . |
| 7 | ‘ There is little time , ’ said Joan nervously . |
| 8 | ‘ There is little time left , ’ he said . |
| 9 | There is little time within our course for students to experiment with information design in any serious way , but those who also undertake their major undergraduate project in this area frequently become ambitious in experimenting with complex information structures . |
| 10 | However , there is little time advantage to be gained from doing this . |
| 11 | They would spend a disproportionate amount of time moving between feeding areas and , in the bleak heights of the Rocky Mountains , there is little time to spare . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , such discovery is often of limited value , since by the time the site is recognized and reported , it is usually more than half destroyed : in most cases , there is little time for archaeologists to salvage information from what is left of the site . |
| 13 | There is little time for introductions , however , as the Daleks attack the city , determined to find the Doctor 's group . |
| 14 | However , when delivery is about to take place there is little time for further information to arrive , and so the information that does appear is relatively important . |
| 15 | Outside working hours Andy still likes to paddle although there is little time in the summer . |
| 16 | The Minister of State is not yet the Foreign Secretary and there is little time left for him to become Foreign Secretary . |
| 17 | Ray is filmed in Liverpool visiting Claudette at her home , where there is little time for pauses : She talks very frankly about herself . |
| 18 | Small wonder that there was little time or taste for theorizing about ideal forms of secondary education . |
| 19 | It may seem harsh to criticize the Labour government for its inner-urban Policy at the end of the 1970s — there was little time for the introduction of a comprehensive programme of action towards the cities before the political realities of the 1979 election . |
| 20 | There was little time for dalliance when we came out from Sunday School as I was expected to be home for tea at half-past four . |
| 21 | The pupils all began looking round at each other and Mildred knew there was little time before someone recognized her . |
| 22 | There was little time to stand admiring the view of this or that season when there was a big farm to run and a house and family to be looked after . |
| 23 | There was little time to reflect on the implications as Prince Charles had already asked her to Balmoral for the weekend of the Braemar Games early in September . |
| 24 | It was a miserable moment but there was little time to reflect on the tragedy . |
| 25 | The imperial preference aspect was important because it might arrest the trends pulling the Empire apart ; reciprocity had shown the danger and there was little time left to halt the slide . |
| 26 | There was little time left before his meeting with Merymose , so he did not return to his house , but took a circuitous route which would bring him to their rendezvous at the moment the sun touched the top of the western cliffs . |
| 27 | After the fall of France in June 1940 there was little time to think about the shape of the post-war world . |
| 28 | Over the next few days , as the rush to load the Broompark became more frantic , there was little time for anything except work . |
| 29 | There was little time for thinking as they progressed lower down this new valley . |