Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | What annoying snag had cropped up this time ? |
| 2 | Thereafter the intervention proceeds to reward gradually increased time spent working . |
| 3 | Henry Bordes-Pages , spokesman on research for the white-collar union CGG says : ‘ The government has spent too much time on debates . |
| 4 | Judging the competition has taken quite some time and was no easy matter . |
| 5 | After their first foray into a national championship , Farnham ladies made a stern resolve to do better next time . |
| 6 | Work preparing the ‘ Marco Polo ’ story for the studio had taken up more time and resources than was originally envisaged . |
| 7 | Nobody had spoken of this new responsible attitude , because to do so would be to admit that his behaviour had previously left something to be desired , and my mother had spent too much time in implicit denial of this to waste it all now . |
| 8 | Privacy was hard to achieve , especially while all the family wanted to spend as much time as possible with him . |