Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] little time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was notable that , in his introductory speech , the Home Secretary devoted very little time to the content of the Bill and scarcely sought to justify it . |
| 2 | It allowed too little time for the furore provoked by Howe 's resignation to die down . |
| 3 | He got the boot after his wife walked out and half the players quit because he spent so little time trying to improve the side 's miserable record in Delmenhorst , Germany . |
| 4 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
| 5 | I spent as little time with Syl as I possibly could . |
| 6 | Aurangzeb spent as little time as possible in the city , preferring to continue his campaigns from Aurangabad , his own foundation in the Deccan . |
| 7 | His skin was bronzed , his thinning hair was bleached by sun and sea , and Wycliffe felt sure that he spent as little time as possible away from boats , the sea , and the club bar . |
| 8 | For years I found it very odd that the disciples spent very little time talking about the significance of the death of Jesus or even the person of Jesus . |
| 9 | Virginia 's success had shown what could be done , and the West Indian settlement spent very little time considering any other commercial prospects for some years . |
| 10 | If you had a bloke like John tha that virtually ran the force for several years whether you liked him or whether you did n't he he he was efficient in running the force erm especially when Charlie was was into the erm in a big way and he spent very little time with Nottinghamshire John ran the force made the decisions and cracked on with it |
| 11 | Straightforward deliveries direct to readers took comparatively little time for ‘ ordinary ’ books housed in the Main Building : more than half ( 52% ) were delivered within ten minutes , and more than nine out of ten ( 92% ) had been delivered within twenty minutes . |
| 12 | One former Edinburgh male compositor who worked at Constable 's told me in a letter that " we as apprentices … used to help the ladies by lifting the formes of type on to the stones , so as they could do corrections , and lift them down " It could in fact have perfectly well been done by a strong woman or by two women cooperating , and in any case took very little time . |
| 13 | The daily routines of most working class wives left conspicuously little time for leisure . |
| 14 | It 's not the right song for the show , but we had so little time and a decision had to be made . |
| 15 | She did n't want to quarrel with Maria , today of all days , when they had so little time left together . |
| 16 | One can not help but feel that one of the reasons why Edberg was beaten in his opening singles — without in any way detracting from Nestor 's fine achievement — was that he had so little time for either his body or his tennis to adjust after the journey to another time zone — and surface — from Australia . |
| 17 | Daddy had so many plans for Walker Hall but then he had so little time to do much . |
| 18 | In a muffled voice she added , ‘ They had so little time together that I hope they were happy . ’ |
| 19 | But in a television interview at the end of 1989 Kylie confessed that the pressures of international stardom meant that now she had precious little time to spare for making her own clothes . |
| 20 | Sally , her father 's wife , had advised her on more than one occasion , but Harriet had as little time for stylists as she had for clothes — and besides , she rather liked her hair just as it was . |
| 21 | And he would probably rather enjoy looking after a woman , even one he had as little time for as her . |
| 22 | The mother was very distressed at the living arrangements as she was the housemaid for the whole extended family and had very little time to spend with her son . |
| 23 | I had very little time . |
| 24 | The sea was trying to break the ship into pieces , and we had very little time . |
| 25 | Two years ago , I really had very little time to myself . ’ |
| 26 | Its people , as exemplified in the plays of Sean O'Casey and Denis Johnston , had very little time for the pieties of Irish nationalism . |
| 27 | He knew he had very little time before the performance began . |
| 28 | To put it another way : when the cat is on heat ( which she has n't been since the vet gave her the unkindest cut of all ) , nevertheless when she was , she had very little time for chasing moths hanging unsubtly round the fridge or cuddling up for a neck scratch . |
| 29 | They had very little time . |
| 30 | Still , over the next hour she had very little time to think about the forthcoming meeting . |