Example sentences of "amount [prep] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doses received by local people would depend on the amount of time they spent near areas of higher radioactivity , and on whether any of the radioactivity passed through the food chain . |
| 2 | You would wonder how they could eat at all after the amount of time they spent talking about food . ’ |
| 3 | Many women found it difficult to put an exact figure on the amount of time they spent on the various areas of farm work . |
| 4 | The age at which children go to school , the amount of time they spend there and the disposition of that time have the very greatest bearing on the learning that is planned and provided for them . |
| 5 | Clients are charged for the amount of time they take up , including the length of the interview and any telephone calls . |
| 6 | The includers are not always merely disinterested advocates of a philosophy , but people who have become so through experience , through the sheer amount of time they spend with members of the excluded social group . |
| 7 | To analyse what managers actually do , Mintzberg categorised their activities and calculated the amount of time they spent on each . |
| 8 | If doctors are employed in a unit the amount of time they spend with a patient may be as little as fifteen minutes twice a week for a short-term attender and an astonishingly low four or five minutes per week for a long-term attender . |
| 9 | As Bennett ( 1978 , 1987 ) points out , one of the most important determinants of pupils ' learning is simply the amount of time they spend in it . |
| 10 | While the part-time handymen do tidy up the area from time to time the amount of time they can devote to this is strictly limited . ’ |
| 11 | Children are particularly at risk because of the amount of time they spend out of doors . |
| 12 | ( b ) Holidays etc In practice , partners will agree between themselves as to the amount of time they should be allowed to take away from the practice and when their absence from the firm will cause the least difficulty . |
| 13 | The new measures will bring the UK more into line with other western governments ' statistical bureaux that limit both the number of ministers with access to figures and the amount of time they have to consider them . |
| 14 | The amount of time we spent using media , their virtual inescapability and thus the extent of their potential influence , all make their history important . |
| 15 | I mean th , the amount of time we have to sit in the blasted garden anyway is er nothing in n it ? |
| 16 | Erm the J C one we 'll have to try and deal with that again as a separate issue but I do n't , I mean the amount of time we 're losing from high levels of sickness we talked about a c couple of meetings or so ago , about the absence levels with some people , we 've just got ta make sure we crack that on the head , we 're just haemorrhaging money , the fact that it is not just hours it 's money . |
| 17 | That is quite simply to reduce by say 25 per cent the amount of time the eager opera audience wishes to spend listening to famous old works about famous old people and places , and instead increase the amount of time it wishes to spend listening to new works about ordinary people now . |
| 18 | The City took a dim view of what it regarded as the inordinate amount of time it took for the group to return a profit there . |
| 19 | But professionals do not , in general , have to worry about the cost of the string or the amount of time it lasts . |
| 20 | The amount of time it takes for a lizard to turn into a bird ; love |
| 21 | To set it up , the amount of time it takes her to get it up , be prepared |
| 22 | Part of Keith 's interest in the documentary style of photography he excels in was , perhaps , further fuelled by the amount of time he has , over the years , spent in part-time social work which has given him access to various kinds of care units . |
| 23 | Old Charlie must have had a bit of a penchant for potholing judging by the amount of time he spent in every rock crevice north of Carlisle , but I prefer to suspend my scepticism and believe that the great man did indeed peel off his powdered wig and roll out a sleeping-bag in all the places that maps and local handouts would have us believe . |
| 24 | It would limit the amount of time he and Cora-Beth could be alone together . |
| 25 | The problem , we must make sure Ray does n't include the amount of time he nee extra he needs to arrive at every meeting half an hour early . |
| 26 | The audience was fidgeting behind him , and there was a limit to the amount of time he intended to chat to this crazy woman next to him in the soiled wedding dress and veil . |
| 27 | He , too , seemed visibly affected by the brief amount of time he had been able to spend with his brother . |
| 28 | She 's had to restrict the amount of time he spends playing them , and she 's warning other parents not to let children use the games for long periods unsupervised . |
| 29 | Simon has now cut right down on the amount of time he spend playing and has also undergone treatment from his doctor . |
| 30 | I do n't think it 'd been very lucrative work with the amount of time he took to it . |