Example sentences of "[art] amount [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expectations of the two parties may be very different , as may be the amount of time and effort they each put into the deal . |
| 2 | That is quite simply to reduce by say 25 per cent the amount of time the eager opera audience wishes to spend listening to famous old works about famous old people and places , and instead increase the amount of time it wishes to spend listening to new works about ordinary people now . |
| 3 | That is quite simply to reduce by say 25 per cent the amount of time the eager opera audience wishes to spend listening to famous old works about famous old people and places , and instead increase the amount of time it wishes to spend listening to new works about ordinary people now . |
| 4 | Written as a result of attending a Labour Party conference , it was the product of shock at what then seemed to me the amount of time and energy politicians and journalists spent chasing each other 's tails on such occasions . |
| 5 | Doses received by local people would depend on the amount of time they spent near areas of higher radioactivity , and on whether any of the radioactivity passed through the food chain . |
| 6 | As the total area allocated to these crops increased , so the amount of time and land which a family could devote to food crop production for its own consumption often diminished . |
| 7 | You would wonder how they could eat at all after the amount of time they spent talking about food . ’ |
| 8 | fatigue increases and mental performance worsens as the amount of time spent on the task increases , particularly if we have lost sleep or the task is repetitive and boring . |
| 9 | In principle , therefore , if the concentration of 14 C atoms remaining and the initial , or equilibrium , concentration can be evaluated by experiment , then one can determine the amount of time which has elapsed since death . |
| 10 | The quantity of detail and the resultant record size will also affect the amount of time involved in the creation of a single record . |
| 11 | It was almost as small as the circle of names and acquaintances of the average senior civil servant , and was reduced further by the fact that once they had got on to a board , many businessmen rapidly came to resent the amount of time the job demanded . |
| 12 | Others may have shared my depression at the spectacle of party activists of various political persuasions sitting , stopwatch in hand , to measure the amount of time given to their views compared with those of their opponents . |
| 13 | Very little was known about the type of work and the amount of time spent on farm work by the farmer 's wife so the questions in this section were aimed at trying to identify : ( a ) how important her role was ; ( b ) the level of her present skills ; ( c ) whether training could expand her contribution to the farm business ; and ( d ) whether training for the benefit of the farm as a whole could be conducted through women . |
| 14 | Many women found it difficult to put an exact figure on the amount of time they spent on the various areas of farm work . |
| 15 | The amount of time spent on this activity was similar to that spent in paperwork , namely under five hours per week . |
| 16 | Being on duty was generally acknowledged by the team to be stressful and disruptive of one 's home life , but the figures indicated that in relation to referral and investigative work at least , the amount of time in active work was not great . |
| 17 | The amount of time given to the development of the basics , the school 's approach to equal opportunities , special needs work , sex education , multi-cultural and anti-racist education and pupil assessment will be seen in action . |
| 18 | The prosecution laboured long on the amount of time the whittling had taken which therefore proved considerable premeditation . |
| 19 | Part of Keith 's interest in the documentary style of photography he excels in was , perhaps , further fuelled by the amount of time he has , over the years , spent in part-time social work which has given him access to various kinds of care units . |
| 20 | Again , the amount of time you run depends on your current fitness level . |
| 21 | This alternates with the amount of time until desaturation is achieved ( no flying time ) , signified by an image of an aeroplane . |
| 22 | Old Charlie must have had a bit of a penchant for potholing judging by the amount of time he spent in every rock crevice north of Carlisle , but I prefer to suspend my scepticism and believe that the great man did indeed peel off his powdered wig and roll out a sleeping-bag in all the places that maps and local handouts would have us believe . |
| 23 | More a matter of the amount of time required … excessive … good coaching does not come cheap … ’ |
| 24 | You will reduce the amount of time and energy spent on trying to deal with ‘ square pegs ’ . |
| 25 | Those attending will look to you , the chairman , to limit or control the amount of time spent on various topics . |
| 26 | However , if the score is less than five , you will need to increase the amount of time spent or the number of times a week you practise it . |
| 27 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 28 | Tunbridge Wells , without a computer as yet , records some estimate of the amount of time spent on each client problem , including interviewing and follow-up work . |
| 29 | The amount of time off must be reasonable having regard to the councillor 's responsibilities on the council , the circumstances of the employer 's business and the effect on that business of the employee 's absence . |
| 30 | According to the development officers ' monthly reports to their supervisor the distribution of their work could be broken down into roughly three or four elements ( though the amount of time spent on each changed somewhat as the project progressed ) . |