Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] more time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bush administration wants more time to consider this , and a third meeting has been scheduled for September . |
| 2 | As the record company , and its revenue from worldwide licensing deals , became more important , so Branson spent more time with Simon Draper and less and less with Nik Powell . |
| 3 | They are broadly consistent with those from earlier studies carried out in other parts of the country except that children in the present study spent more time waiting for attention , in spite of the presence of an unprecedented number of support teachers and other ancillary staff and helpers . |
| 4 | Rangers ' Stuart McCall spent more time on the ball than all of Hibs ' midfield put together and never wasted a moment , either . |
| 5 | Ca n't think what people see in them , ’ he added darkly , referring to the fact that most of the Zoo visitors who came by the Cages spent more time looking at the vultures than they did at African eagles like him . |
| 6 | Molly spent more time with the Corduroys and was introduced to the Tapscotts , a white-haired couple : Nicholas , who had been the British Consul in Florence , and his wife Connie . |
| 7 | At the height of the energy crisis , the enactment of the Energy Supply and Environmental Co-ordination Act of June 1974 suspended the emission standards until 1977 and 1978 to allow vehicle manufacturers to devote more time to improving fuel economy . |
| 8 | Free neutrons are unstable , with a half-life of about 11 minutes , so as observed , the intensity drops off with time as the slower-moving neutrons had more time to decay . |
| 9 | ShareLink , which claims to be Europe 's largest share dealing service , is open seven days a week : 8.30am to 6pm on weekdays , and 10am to 4pm at weekends , when many clients have more time to think about their investments . |
| 10 | Alan Shearer and Ian Wright need more time for their partnership to mature . |
| 11 | The position and the number of the ridges so formed vary , but there is a tendency for the ridges at high and low neap tide levels to be the most permanent , as would be expected from the fact that the waves have more time to act at these levels than at intermediate levels . |
| 12 | I would have thought that a decision to allocate more time to showing the event could have been taken , particularly in view of our previous successes . |
| 13 | Sebastian spent more time out of the house . |
| 14 | Cedric Humphreys , 65 , wants to retire as clerk to St Osyth Parish Council to devote more time to his interests in amateur dramatics and music . |
| 15 | This gives the glider pilot more time to find out why his glider is semi-stalled and is sinking like a brick . |
| 16 | Carers with a dependant living in the same household spend more time caring than those with a dependant in another household . |
| 17 | When the defence requested more time to prepare their case , Jeffries raged , ‘ I will not give him a minute 's time more to save his life ’ . |
| 18 | If the returns from farming dropped more time could be spent in the forest with consequent improvement in the level of management . |
| 19 | Costs will increase if there are a number of interested parties since the process takes more time . |
| 20 | A large management accounts team spent more time ‘ number-crunching ’ than interpreting the figures . |
| 21 | The only way that illegal wildlife trade will be successfully curbed is by governments committing more time and resources to do so . |
| 22 | My mind , my inner eye needed more time . |
| 23 | The possibility of obtaining loans from the Phnom Penh museum was then followed up by the curator in Asian art at the ANG , Doctor Michael Brand : ‘ Normally it would have been the ANG 's desire to have more time , but 1992 was chosen because the Japanese were trying to borrow some objects for a show to be held in 1993 . |
| 24 | He had been a deacon and church treasurer before coming to Darlington and he hopes in retirement to have more time for church work . |
| 25 | Instead of asking Robert to spend more time with her at the weekends , she blamed him for being absent when something quite minor happened to one of the children . |
| 26 | Until last week , she worked as a cleaner at the local community centre , but colleagues say she 'd given up the job to spend more time with her sick mother . |
| 27 | They enjoy being at home together : she attends keep-fit classes and meets her former colleagues for coffee once a fortnight , while Tom spends more time on gardening and playing whist . |
| 28 | The package has been devised by Colin McShannon , principal prison officer at Noranside , who hopes it will free social workers to spend more time with prisoners . |
| 29 | The client may have needs for a high level of social contact , which for various reasons are not being met , or , vice versa , they may have the need to spend more time alone which is not being met . |
| 30 | This , again , is a point appreciated by Goody : ‘ Some individuals spend more time with the written language than they do with the spoken . |