Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] [verb] [adj] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to 3,000 students at Bucharest Polytechnic , as well as demanding sweeping changes in education policy , expressed concern that the NSF was dominated by communists who were trying to ensure that they stayed in power by scheduling the elections so that the emerging political parties would have little time to organize . |
| 2 | Honeydew melons ripen slowly and will often keep up to a month , but smaller varieties will take less time to ripen . |
| 3 | The appearance of such systems , often in advance of any Western equivalent , usually generates flurries of excitement , yet early versions tend to possess rudimentary capabilities , and effective variants may take considerable time to emerge as the component technologies are brought up to standard . |
| 4 | creating opportunities and providing conditions in which teachers can spend more time working together , sharing problems , commenting on each others ' performance , and collaborating in curriculum planning . |
| 5 | The remaining material in Volume 1 — the so-called ‘ additional analyses ’ — which included detailed information about departmental subprogrammes and the English , Scottish and Welsh components should take more time to produce and be made available in alternative ways , as technical releases , in the spring . |
| 6 | This means that potential competitive bidders will have more time to organise rival bids . |
| 7 | I wish Labour politicians would spend less time searching for points of disagreement in the Labour Party constitution , and more time pointing to the total absence of democracy in the Tory Party where there is no participation , no ballots , and they do n't even have the confidence to tell Party members where the money comes from . |
| 8 | Time spent studying how others write can be helpful , although old habits can take some time to die , and some nurses who have difficulty in grasping new concepts can persist in applying old rules to new procedures , so do be warned . |