Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] more time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ca n't think what people see in them , ’ he added darkly , referring to the fact that most of the Zoo visitors who came by the Cages spent more time looking at the vultures than they did at African eagles like him . |
| 2 | At the height of the energy crisis , the enactment of the Energy Supply and Environmental Co-ordination Act of June 1974 suspended the emission standards until 1977 and 1978 to allow vehicle manufacturers to devote more time to improving fuel economy . |
| 3 | Free neutrons are unstable , with a half-life of about 11 minutes , so as observed , the intensity drops off with time as the slower-moving neutrons had more time to decay . |
| 4 | ShareLink , which claims to be Europe 's largest share dealing service , is open seven days a week : 8.30am to 6pm on weekdays , and 10am to 4pm at weekends , when many clients have more time to think about their investments . |
| 5 | The position and the number of the ridges so formed vary , but there is a tendency for the ridges at high and low neap tide levels to be the most permanent , as would be expected from the fact that the waves have more time to act at these levels than at intermediate levels . |
| 6 | The only way that illegal wildlife trade will be successfully curbed is by governments committing more time and resources to do so . |
| 7 | The package has been devised by Colin McShannon , principal prison officer at Noranside , who hopes it will free social workers to spend more time with prisoners . |
| 8 | This , again , is a point appreciated by Goody : ‘ Some individuals spend more time with the written language than they do with the spoken . |
| 9 | Research by other scientists showed that birds spent more time on the nest and laid more eggs when peckable objects were attached to the wall beside it . |
| 10 | He thought that the Businesses needed more time to work together and get a grip of their markets . |
| 11 | The show marries poetry with art , encouraging viewers to take more time looking at each picture , as he compares the words with the image . |
| 12 | No wonder , then , that the disc gods spend more time in bickering than in omnicognizance . |
| 13 | They may have turned down job promotions to allow more time to be with their parents , or to avoid moving abroad or further from home . |
| 14 | Oral and practical assessments take more time , yet yield richer , but more ambiguous , information . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's very good but goalkeepers have more time now , ’ says Bernard , 72 . |
| 16 | City : LUI arms gain more time |
| 17 | During Feb. 23 Gorbachev reportedly telephoned Bush and other coalition leaders to urge more time for negotiations to find a compromise between the Soviet plan and Bush 's conditions . |
| 18 | The delay in 10 cities had in many instances allowed more time for local coalitions to be negotiated . |
| 19 | Reading , thinning out and explaining the demands of NCC , SEAC , local authorities and governors takes more time than a head can find during a school day . |
| 20 | Cartwright and O'Brien found that doctors spent more time and discussed more problems with middle-class than with working-class patients . |
| 21 | The recommendation following from this diagnosis is that more attention should be directed to developing these kinds of competence in initial training , not least with regard to teachers spending more time on becoming more skilled and knowledgeable in their own subject specialisms . |
| 22 | The typical user of Ami Pro or Word for Windows spends more time putting in pretty fonts and graphics — and that 's after they 've customized the toolbars and the screen colours and … |
| 23 | Whether such sums are sufficient to enable councillors to spend more time becoming more involved in local policy-making is open to question especially given the ‘ career building ’ problem outlined earlier . |
| 24 | Murder police given more time to question husband |
| 25 | Bakeman and Brown found that mothers of preterm babies spent more time actively coaxing responses from their infants ; that joint communication was more likely to be initiated by full-term babies ; and that the flow of action between the four states was more varied and less predictable among full-term babies and their mothers . |
| 26 | To solve crimes , the police needed more time — not on the beat , but in their own cells . |
| 27 | Also for creative arts , a weekly period of music and art would be insufficient ; rather , a rotational arrangement should be employed which allowed pupils to spend more time on music , say , for part of two years , with the opportunity for work in art and perhaps drama at other times ' . |
| 28 | ANOTHER POS : Children had more time to be educated . |
| 29 | Indeed one possible advantage offered by computers is that they free children from lower order tasks and allow far more time for higher order thinking — instead of laboriously drawing a graph , pupils have more time for analysis of a graph produced by the computer . |
| 30 | Many children spend more time in front of the television screen than they do in the classroom . |