Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a run up to this , the London-based group devoted a good deal of management time to restructuring the US operations , mainly in the sphere of sales and customer support . |
| 2 | This power station construction programme absorbed the greater part of their capital budgets , as well as a good deal of management time both at headquarters and in the divisions . |
| 3 | All it takes to give this work a decent hearing is five intelligent and compatible singers , a good deal of rehearsal time , sensitive discussion about the best way of tackling the considerable demands both of the words and the huge span of music , and some recording equipment . |
| 4 | There are children and families who take up a great deal of teacher time and attention . |
| 5 | It has gone very sweetly ever since but that was a good deal of production time that was lost that cost me a lost more money than I had anticipated . |
| 6 | In the early days of the war it was the practice for all staff to take shelter on the ‘ alert ’ , but loss of production time demanded a better system , and late in 1940 , a ‘ spotter ’ was detailed to observe enemy aircraft and to warn when danger was imminent . |
| 7 | There was one field in particular that I had made some good finds on and I had searched this piece of land time and time again . |
| 8 | Morrissey is needed , not as an ombudsman , or a figure of the eighties , but as a horrified figure against the eighties , who has turned his back on the march of pop time as the last keeper of the sanctuary of self-pity , apartness , exile ’ ( David Stubbs ) . |
| 9 | Thus , it is not just imaginative ideas which are required but an increase in investment of management time . |
| 10 | I was not a pioneer of part time senior registrar training in Wessex : several people were already in post . |
| 11 | We 've had not almost two minutes of stoppage time . |
| 12 | Just gone , we 're obviously working to Italian time in this Italian job because we 've had really five minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half and I 'm a bit baffled as to why we had it . |
| 13 | A few minutes of air time on a small radio station ? |
| 14 | The Prime Minister takes the last 15 minutes of question time on Tuesdays and Thursdays . |
| 15 | Competition Every competitor within 20 minutes of walking time was visited , and we can report that lunchtime trade was good to excellent , and that those restaurants remaining open in the evening were well patronized . |
| 16 | After 30 minutes of flight time , Dick felt comfortable enough to join up on our wing so a picture could be made which commemorated the moment . |
| 17 | The method has been in use since 1977 and requires only two and a half minutes of therapy time , according to reports . |
| 18 | Irwin and Paul Ince were booked for ungentlemanly conduct as the referee added nine minutes of injury time to a tepid second-half which was in contrast to the excitement of the first . |
| 19 | The referee added seven minutes of injury time in a stop-start first half . |
| 20 | And with seven and a half minutes of injury time Milton hung on to their slender lead ; final score here at Bishops Cleve was Bishops Cleve nil , Milton United one . |
| 21 | A few minutes of television time was so precious . |
| 22 | Until 1974 it focused upon reform of the ESF , but its agenda has now widened to include unemployment , reorganisation of working time and youth unemployment . |
| 23 | The second effect would appear earlier than the first and would be manifest by a reduction of survival time — the interval between diagnosis of cancer ( incidence date ) and death . |
| 24 | The hazards model also showed no reduction of survival time in a comparison of the period when atenolol was prescribed ( 1977–90 ) with the period in which it was not prescribed ( 1972–6 ) . |
| 25 | If the presence of Amy eating her food is the signal ( antecedent ) for Keith to take it ( problem behaviour ) then the change of lunch time arrangements leave Keith without the signal or the food to steal . |
| 26 | Perhaps the producer thought the gentleman had had enough media exposure for a while , as I was given to understand that he had been granted quite a bit of air time one way and another in the recent past . |
| 27 | Er I think she does a bit of part time I 'm not really sure what she does she comes and goes , she probably works in an old folks ' home or something , she has a uniform . |
| 28 | She used to do a bit of part time buying from the accounts department . |
| 29 | So eleven minutes remaining plus a little bit of injury time , it 's still Spurs three , Oxford United one , United go forward , a chip forward there by Simpson . |
| 30 | So eleven minutes remaining plus a little bit of injury time , it 's still Spurs three , Oxford United one ; United go forward , a chip forward there by Simpson , there 's a chance for Martin Foyle , Martin Foyle — and he 's scored . |