Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] more time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Principal contenders are rightly given more time than fringe candidates . |
| 2 | It 's the last day of Week 2 and I suggest that you have your main meal at lunchtime again , so allowing more time to work it off before tomorrow 's assessment . |
| 3 | These people are called merchandisers and their activities provide support to traditional salespeople , who can thus spend more time selling . |
| 4 | It is a pity that we can not spend more time just looking at some of the issues — for example , clause 28 , which is quite important — which affect adult education . |
| 5 | She always had so many places to go and so many people who wanted to see her that he felt cruelly his own stolid boringness , and was not surprised that she did not spend more time with him . |
| 6 | We will not spend more time here on looking at the problems , but go on to look at some generalisations about suffixes and stress . |
| 7 | Horses paddocked on a hillside will normally spend more time running along the higher boundary than the lower one — they need to get to the top of the hill for visual freedom . |
| 8 | Fate , it seemed , was determined that Nell and he would not have more time . |
| 9 | He could not take more time off . |
| 10 | ‘ Do you think I 'm disappointed at not spending more time with Julius ? ’ she said bluntly . |
| 11 | yeah I 'm not failing more times than Dan , I mean it 's not really |
| 12 | Teachers in the same breath convey the message that they value ‘ quiet ’ pupils ( often girls ) , while patently giving more time and attention to noisy pupils ( often boys ) . |
| 13 | You just take more time over it . |
| 14 | It is exclusive inasmuch as it demands a recognition of a continuously expanding number of works of art , a process which finds its correlative in cultural criticism 's developing complexity of coding , with the result that works of art and their criticism becomes increasingly ‘ difficult ’ , forever demanding more time and more money to ‘ appreciate ’ . |
| 15 | He added that the defence also needs more time to examine and obtain documents relating to the case after new evidence came to light last week . |
| 16 | He added that the defence also needed more time to examine and obtain documents relating to the case after fresh evidence came to light last week . |
| 17 | We probably spent more time watching what happens in facilities where care is provided for the elderly than anyone has done before . |
| 18 | Boys were more often distracted , and also spent more time waiting for attention from their teachers . |
| 19 | I realized that Hindley did not care what conditions he lived in , and Joseph clearly spent more time praying than cleaning . |
| 20 | The VWA , one of five Dutch sado-masochism associations , is recommending stricter fire safety regulations because ‘ people who are handcuffed or tied up need more time to get out of a building ’ . |
| 21 | Working people probably spend more time in the company of their workmates than with their marriage partners , and almost certainly more than with other friends and relatives . |
| 22 | The more weak-willed of the defenders very often spent more time watching the native princes eating their banquets than they did watching the enemy lines . |
| 23 | The actual recycling processes , although similar to the normal manufacturing process , often takes more time , and costs a lot more , with only the same end result . |
| 24 | I have a modest interest in pictures and antiques and I will now have more time for the sale rooms . |
| 25 | On the next point , what initially appeared to have been an ace down the middle by Forget was shown to be no more than wishful thinking by spectators now spending more time on their feet than in their seats . |
| 26 | There , he and his fellow students ‘ often gave more time to books than drawing ’ , and his life became an attractive combination of early-morning reading , architectural work in the day , and evenings playing the violin with his father at festivities in and around Bockhampton . |
| 27 | However , Gershuny 's ( 1983 ) work has shown that married women typically spend more time on housework than their husbands , even if they also have paid employment . |
| 28 | It is very difficult to cover all the possible eventualities in the forty-odd hours of the PPL course , but I now spend more time teaching emergencies connected with power reductions . |
| 29 | He did n't need more time in this chilled room . |
| 30 | If a buyer ca n't be found for Viz , Chris hopes to employ extra staff so he can simply take more time off . |