Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred , from Newcastle , still finds things hard , even after spending time in a ‘ halfway house ’ which let him get used to paying his own way . |
| 2 | Both his mother and sister said Mr Lee was never the same person after spending time in prison . |
| 3 | The person who gets on with the job instead of wasting time in chatter may show up the less zealous and cause the chatterers to feel vaguely guilty , which of course they wo n't like . |
| 4 | By triggering the unit manually , rotary control VR2 could be calibrated and a scale of operating time in seconds marked out on the front panel . |
| 5 | Du Pont says that its aerodynamic efficiency can cut about 10 minutes of biking time in a 180-kilometre run . |
| 6 | This change was made , for a transitional period , administratively and without any new legislation , presumably because of the difficulty of finding time in the parliamentary timetable to amend the 1958 Act . |
| 7 | There are many laboratory techniques for measuring time in speech , and measurement of the time intervals between stressed syllables in connected English speech has not shown the expected regularity ; moreover , using the same measuring techniques on different languages , it has not been possible to show a real difference between ‘ stress-timed ’ and ‘ syllable-timed ’ languages . |
| 8 | Or is it more like feeding time in a wartime army canteen ? |
| 9 | Second , a prior context imposes an additional processing load ( and hence an increase in processing time in Dooling 's experiment ) when a current sentence has to be integrated with information presented earlier in the discourse . |
| 10 | We are used to measuring time in decades and centuries and millennia . |
| 11 | The drawback to spending time in Câmara de Lobos is the hordes of beggar children who appear nowhere else on the island but are a real nuisance here . |
| 12 | Beryl welcomed Kay Evans and thanked her on behalf of everyone for finding time in her busy life to attend our training days and for the interest she always shows in all we do . |
| 13 | They lamb easily , producing wonderfully tasty meat lambs when crossed with a Ryeland sire , and give the softest of fleeces at shearing time in a variety of attractive shades , ideal for hand spinning and knitting . |
| 14 | We can only become familiar with this new world by spending time in it . |