Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In much the same way implicit or explicit models for describing the evolution of stream channels or drainage basins commonly are used to make simplifying assumptions that eliminate considerations of time , history and sometimes even progressive change . ’ |
| 2 | Classroom studies will involve observation and discussion with teachers and children and will include periods of time when standard assessment tasks are being completed . |
| 3 | * A comment ( not in itself a complete clause ) about the main clause — like the comments in italics below , which may include indications of time , place and manner ( and which are called ADVERBIALS ) : Whenever she leaves the house , the heroine seems to become bolder . |
| 4 | Surely he 's got loads of time for people who struggle at maths , sport , speelling etc ? |
| 5 | Yeah I 'm going to getting the stamps off these en envelopes cos I have to put all these in a hurry in the end , also got loads of time , then I realised it was half past ten , no wonder I did n't get anything at home forgotten where we keep them |
| 6 | Trouble is granny does it and she 's got loads of time . |
| 7 | Five , fifteen , thirty five minutes six twenty , oh we 've still got bags of time then . |
| 8 | Oh I 've got bags of time I reckon to make notes on what I 'm doing as we talk here . |
| 9 | Most of the letters are straightforward and written in plain English ; the type that you may spend bags of time perfecting — Have I said exactly the right thing ? |
| 10 | — Bella spent loads of time round there . |
| 11 | Such an assertion presupposes a well-founded theory of performance , one which was able to assign periods of time to mental processes . |
| 12 | ( Later the bill was amended to provide that the Secretary of State would be prohibited from prescribing periods of time or proportions of school timetables to be allocated to programmes of study : see now ERA 1988 , section 4(3) . ) |
| 13 | After Celtic he spent periods of time with San Jose Earthquakes and Elgin City , and watched his hair and his money gradually disappear . |
| 14 | So where Bangladeshis spent periods of time in the United Kingdom interspersed with periods in Bangladesh and then brought their families to the United Kingdom , took temporary accommodation , and then applied to be treated as a homeless person , it was held that the local authority was entitled to refuse them . |
| 15 | Last Christmas , having loads of time on my hands over the holidays , I decided to take the plunge and make one at least as nice theirs . |
| 16 | ‘ At first it was quite good having loads of time , and money was n't really a problem , I just stopped buying things . |
| 17 | They started to especially trainee managers , spending periods of time in the smaller branch , and they 've got to get on with that concern , but I think there are benefits since they 've been doing that . |
| 18 | The pagan philosophers have introduced cycles of time in which the same things are in the order of nature being restored and repeated , and have asserted that these whirlings of past and future ages will go on unceasingly … . |
| 19 | First , it shares characteristics which are common to many of the activities typically undertaken by women , especially on an unpaid basis — routine , repetitive tasks which have few circumscribed limits of time or obligation . |
| 20 | This saves hours of time and greatly reduces errors caused by inaccurate key pressing . |
| 21 | So I rang the hospital and told them very calmly that we 'd be arriving shortly , then I woke up Tony and — thinking I had loads of time — ran a bath . ’ |
| 22 | He had told his wife that morning over breakfast in their bungalow on the edge of Barashevo and within faint sight of the outer wooden fence of Zone I , that he stood to gain a great prize … not tomorrow , not next week , but he had time , he had months of time to break this bastard . |
| 23 | She ai n't exactly my girlfriend , but we spend loads of time together , going out and that . |
| 24 | We spend loads of time each day tapping keys . |
| 25 | I spend hours of time with my engineers , briefing , de-briefing , briefing again . |
| 26 | Answer guide : The answers to this should encapsulate the idea of the static nature of a stock measure , and the way in which that differs from the dynamic nature of measures covering periods of time . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't worry , we have bags of time . ’ |