Example sentences of "[not/n't] afford [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | On such occasions you can not afford the time , no matter how little , to set up a clip-on bobbin . |
| 2 | I can not afford the time to try everything and often refuse review loans , both of hardware and software . |
| 3 | Lord Sempill could not afford the time , and flew home , so Fred Crocombe decided to take his place for the rest of the flight , with Wood as the sole pilot . |
| 4 | We can not afford to pussyfoot around with it , we can not afford the time not to be on the move , on the move because that 's the only way our members are gon na dictate what they want . |
| 5 | The school could not afford the time or expense of putting bar-codes on all stock in both libraries . |
| 6 | I could n't afford the time . |
| 7 | ‘ I could n't afford the time , even if I had the money , ’ says Robyn . |
| 8 | And the revenue got mean and decided it could n't afford the time of serving officers and it left pre-retirement council and other bodies with a gap to fill er the only other people who are er professional if you like , who could fill it , would be accountants and they were n't available . |
| 9 | Staff said they could n't afford the time to supervise him constantly.But although it may have been convenient to social workers to restrain a stroke victim in a trolley , Peter Chandler has one word to describe the experience : |