Example sentences of "considerable [noun pl] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tawny owl does not usually produce large concentrations of pellets because of its habit of using different trees each day for roosting , and so all of these samples are either from scattered locations or were collected over considerable periods of time . |
| 2 | This is perhaps more evident in the case of longer courses where teachers are displaced from their pedagogic habitat for considerable periods of time , but it exists also in shorter courses . |
| 3 | These children may continue on puréed foods for considerable periods of time or even start to reject all solids and revert back to a liquid diet . |
| 4 | In the past , support meant removing the child for considerable periods of time into the care of remedial teachers either within the school or coming from outside . |
| 5 | An even lower profile is provided by teachers who may not set foot in the classroom at all but who may spend considerable periods of time in discussion with colleagues on ways in which the curriculum can be made more accessible to all children in the class , including the least able . |
| 6 | He introduced the term structure to emphasize that social life must be founded upon an orderly , organized basis , a determinate framework of positions , roles and expectations which remains constant over considerable periods of time . |
| 7 | But these can not yet be attributed to the activities of an individual mosaicist — although they might well indicate the predilictions of an influential client or close- knit group of clients — and are still most significant when viewed over considerable periods of time . |
| 8 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 9 | [ … ] By mid-1959 , other pressure groups external to the schools , in the form of an alliance of university mathematicians , representing mainly the applied segment of the subject , and employers of graduate labour had also invested some of their considerable resources of time , money and status into conveying to teachers from the selective sector ( who prepared their students and employees ) their ‘ requirements ’ of the school curriculum . |
| 10 | Since considerable resources of time are needed to input a large corpus successfully , textual processing by computer is impracticable for many researchers working on tight budgets . |
| 11 | For considerable amounts of time , I was paying five or six salaries . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's why the NFL World Partnership has been created and why we are putting considerable amounts of time , effort and financing into its development . ’ |