Example sentences of "amount [prep] time they " 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 . |