Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This CD features 10,000 colour and black and white pictures of people from the world of sport , theatre , politics , art , religion and music and is designed to make picture research less demanding on both time and resources . |
| 2 | The fact that the average adult spends a minimum of 26 hours sitting in front of a television set in any one week represents not only time lost in sharing activities with their children and young people , but time lost in influencing and controlling them . |
| 3 | To go back a little , there is much to be said for spending six months to a year ( a small-minded regulation forbids any longer time ) in a solicitor 's office before pupillage . |
| 4 | In-service training takes up much time and expense , items in short supply in schools and school library services . |
| 5 | The hospital took her in , and you knew she had to go back there time she was five . |
| 6 | In the last chapter we discussed Giddens 's notion of time-space distantiation ; the idea that social life and social processes are becoming increasingly stretched over both time and space . |
| 7 | I asked him to go away after lunch and I asked him to go away after supper , and he went away both times . |
| 8 | Asimov also thought deeply about time . |
| 9 | Curzon was appointed chairman of committees in the House of Lords ( 1775–89 ) , which took up much time , but provided a regular income to help in completing the house . |
| 10 | They climbed into their chauffeured car and were whisked away to heaven knew where , and I thought frustratedly about time and the little of it there was left in Winnipeg . |
| 11 | Who one day we thought well about time we had something so I think we said to him er about these things off the ration ca n't ca n't get , what happens to them ? |
| 12 | Many would add not before time . |
| 13 | Demolition day was a cause for celebration , schoolchildren were given time off to watch and tenants ' leaders said not before time . |
| 14 | The attack was so sudden that Riven had not even time to be afraid . |
| 15 | I do not wish to take up much time other than to remind the Minister of the five-point agenda with which the NFU would like him to be armed in the poker games of Europe . |
| 16 | Bleary-eyed actor David Threlfall had n't even time to shave yesterday before taking a bow with his screen princess , Serena Scott Thomas . |