Example sentences of "amount [prep] [noun sg] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be difficult to justify spending a large large amount of course time on design , but asking colleagues in design institutions to recommend or teach a useful ( and usable ) subset of document design to occupy just a few hours is not likely to elicit an encouraging response . |
| 2 | Although the tyranny of ‘ promotion examinations ’ has mercifully decreased in the past decade , in many countries yearly and termly examinations and preparation for them account for a quite disproportionate amount of school time and teachers are virtually ignorant of how and why and when to test . |
| 3 | This depends on the amount of development time chosen by your hairdresser . |
| 4 | THE amount of working time lost in Britain through disputes and stoppages has fallen dramatically , according to figures out yesterday . |
| 5 | Incidentally , it enables the Census Dissemination Unit to monitor use of the data easily , both by counting the number of users currently registered and by using the project accounting package VMACCOUNT to find out the amount of CPU time which has been used and by whom . |
| 6 | The amount of computer time needed to obtain answers to inquiries falls and with it the time that has to be paid for . |
| 7 | If you ascend above the decompression ceiling , the amount of ascent time will be replaced by a flashing error warning and flashing downward pointing arrow . |
| 8 | The rating process can tie up a considerable amount of management time , and the company , of course , pays a fee to the rating agency . |
| 9 | I 'm not sure whether , you see I think the management time issue is very related to this , but I think it 's a separate issue , it 's a major concern I 've got at the moment that there is , I mean I know everybody 's got their own arguments but there has been no time at ever in the future that anybody who goes back further than twenty years in the service can recall , where York has had such a small amount of management time as it 's |
| 10 | Yeah the other thing on staffing tt which is a related , but in a sense I 'm trying to keep it as something of a separate issue , and that is to do with the amount of management time . |
| 11 | In order to cut costs in the design process , we looked at reducing the amount of design time required for each issue . |
| 12 | Even if one does not believe in the principle of intellectual conservation of quantity , the same amount of study time is being poured into different shaped vessels , one tall and narrow , the other flat and wide . |
| 13 | Moreover , such tests are a detriment to good education since teachers spend an inordinate amount of class time preparing students for them , particularly if the results are intended to be used to hold teachers and schools accountable for their performance . |
| 14 | I can not believe the amount of injury time actually , you see if I put a record on at half past eight they 'll have finished bang on half past eight but er the fact that I carry on rabbiting and telling you about the quiz competition three or four times er they decide to play plenty of injury time . |
| 15 | It is a sport which has something to offer almost everyone , regardless of age , fitness , amount of leisure time or depth of pocket . |
| 16 | , I hope you 're not , well several interesting things have come out of there , it just shows the sort of thing about working under pressure , and the limited amount of time , erm , the limited amount of planning time for the managers certainly . |
| 17 | Even a fifteen-minute programme will take up a considerable amount of lesson time if it is used at all flexibly , with pauses for discussion and repeat viewings of some sections . |
| 18 | Individuals with more complicated problems , that do not easily fit into the overall structure of the programme , may either be neglected or take up an inappropriate amount of group time . |
| 19 | he 's got to take consi into consideration the amount of recovery time that is required , and especially when they 're you know , interfering with the waterworks of somebody |