Example sentences of "[adj] lot of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We expend endless energy and an awful lot of time each day in pre-empting criticism ; in censoring our speech and our behaviour , checking our appearance , taking up less room , making ourselves invisible , smiling at the request of total strangers , feigning pleasure when we feel none — being good girls rather than real women . |
| 2 | You seem to me to be wasting an awful lot of time . ’ |
| 3 | Cos we 've spent an awful lot of time on it . |
| 4 | And you could waste an awful lot of time on it . |
| 5 | Ye tell me that , laddie , and it 'd save me an awful lot of time . ’ |
| 6 | They 're certainly not run with any notion of an actor 's potential and actors get unhappy because they spend an awful lot of time feeling creatively unused . |
| 7 | Many people spend an awful lot of time editing AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to re-configure memory managers and so forth when they switch between applications . |
| 8 | ‘ Are you going to save us an awful lot of time and trouble , sir , or are you determined to burden the taxpayer further ? ’ |
| 9 | I 've discovered that that is the only way , with one or two exceptions that might occur , the only way to stop yourself wasting an awful lot of time . |
| 10 | Because erm it 's gon na save you an awful lot of time and money . |
| 11 | been attacked over the last few months of not wasting time on the hunt I spend an awful lot of time relieving heavy goods traffic in my area , concerned totally about the environment , about mineral extraction quarries , mining , open cast , things of that calibre . |
| 12 | So that when you introduce yourself , you are seen as a haulier , was the phrase you used , er , and we , we 'd all need to spend an awful lot of time and an awful lot of effort into raising ourselves above that image , I mean there 's nothing wrong with being a haulier , all I 'm saying is that we have to raise ourselves above that image . |
| 13 | I had to go and collect grandma you see to take her to the station , and I did n't have an awful lot of time so I just sort of ran round and collected whatever I got . |
| 14 | saves an awful lot of time with us . |
| 15 | erm We park appallingly carelessly , some of us do it intentionally very often , some of us do it innocently or probably ignorantly , and perhaps to be fined on the spot would be a way of saving an awful lot of paperwork , an awful lot of time , and perhaps reminding people that they should n't be doing these things although I 'm always slightly worried , this is in a sense another problem , I 'm slightly worried by , by the inequity that six pounds or whatever it is will mean a lot to one person and hardly anything at all to another , and you do see some cars mis-parking again and again , and I 'm not sure that erm the instant penalty would make much difference there . |
| 16 | That took up an awful lot of time in my second year , although it was good fun . |
| 17 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in a garage at the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too ! |
| 18 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in the garage and the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too . |
| 19 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in a garage at the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too ! |