Example sentences of "amount of time to " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1960s , under the leadership of Terence O'Neill , the Unionist Parliamentary Party found itself devoting an increasing amount of time to questions of economic and social reform . |
| 2 | The Justices of the Forest were for the most part important men who can have devoted a limited amount of time to their Forest duties . |
| 3 | There is nobody making you study , you have to motivate yourself , dedicating a certain amount of time to a better appreciation of the horse and its care . |
| 4 | Rather than all the rare qualities discussed , the person serving young people in the latter part of the century needs to be able to work in a no-nonsense way with young people , to be a good manager prepared to fight for a fair share of the funds , to ensure that staff are able to devote a generous amount of time to users of the services in groups and as individuals , and to ensure that there is a good stock of books and other materials to explore . |
| 5 | So he manages to dedicate an immense amount of time to people . |
| 6 | The Prince of Wales is president of my organisation , Scottish Business in the Community , and ever since he agreed to take on that role he as dedicated a large amount of time to helping us , and in turn , helping communities , not because it 's it 's fashionable because he really believes in it and he wants to do hard work on our behalf and on the countrys ' behalf . |
| 7 | Like pluralists , structuralists are aware of the dysfunctional nature of military expenditure for capitalism and devote a considerable amount of time to dismantling any simple economist or reductionist account of the growth of the military-industrial complex . |
| 8 | Neither have I been someone who devotes an enormous amount of time to the care of my own face and figure . |
| 9 | SCOTVEC has devoted a substantial amount of time to debating how staff development might proceed and set up an ad hoc group to undertake more detailed discussions . |
| 10 | and then they can expect them at the end of like x amount of time to be able to take over a department , then when it falls apart they 're gon na be the one to take it . |
| 11 | The amount of time to be spent on learning about tone languages should depend to some extent on your background . |
| 12 | What affected my career was having children , which immediately means that you ca n't devote the amount of time to your career as you can if you do n't have other responsibilities , and the reason that I 'm now a Research Fellow here , and I work part-time — only eighty per cent of the time — is because of trying to tie in one 's responsibilities as a mother with those as a scientist , and this has obvious effects . |
| 13 | From that year onwards , he became progressively more absent from the conduct of daily political affairs , relying as much on the inertia of the system he had created as on his ministers to keep the country running , while he devoted increasing amounts of time to hunting , shooting and fishing . |
| 14 | Compare : Encouraged by the success of her early publications , Charlotte Brontë gave over increased amounts of time to writing . |