Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of police officrs in the Thames Valley in relation to the population is still less than it was twenty years ago , yet crime has gone up six times . |
| 2 | What annoying snag had cropped up this time ? |
| 3 | Over the centuries Cornwall 's tin output has totalled about 10 times the annual quantity the world produces now . |
| 4 | The growth of the international bond market is evident from Table 5.1 , which shows that issuance has increased over ten times in nominal terms since 1975 . |
| 5 | Henry Bordes-Pages , spokesman on research for the white-collar union CGG says : ‘ The government has spent too much time on debates . |
| 6 | Judging the competition has taken quite some time and was no easy matter . |
| 7 | In the past 11 years , the publicity budget for the Department of Education and Science has gone up 28 times . |
| 8 | Work preparing the ‘ Marco Polo ’ story for the studio had taken up more time and resources than was originally envisaged . |
| 9 | The team at the project have set up some times when everyone can pop in , as well as a special session on Wednesday mornings which is only for women and children . |
| 10 | After the ship 's foghorn had blasted out six times , they set sail from Dover , one thousand men huddled together on the deck of HMS Resolution singing , ‘ It 's a Long Way to Tipperary ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |