Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [unc] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | His shoes were stout brown brogues , suitable for the tramping from place to place which takes up most of a detective 's time . |
| 2 | Witness could not say how much of a man 's time this might occupy per day . |
| 3 | Letter-writing and diary-keeping filled an important amount of a lady 's time , and a well laid-out desk was a useful piece of bedroom furniture . |
| 4 | They observe and participate in every moment of a patient 's time in hospital . |
| 5 | A key issues review should take approximately 1-3 days of a manager 's time and 1 day of a partner 's time depending on the size of the transaction . |
| 6 | Planning and plans occupy much of a manager 's time at any level in the company , with important consequences . |
| 7 | The Podmore survey indicated that on average 15 per cent of a practices ' time would be taken up with company and commercial work . |
| 8 | Marrakech is worth not two days of a tourist 's time but at least seven . |
| 9 | Duthie ( 1970 ) , in studying the teacher 's day , estimated that about one-third of a teacher 's time was taken up with duties of a non-professional nature which ‘ auxiliaries ’ could undertake . |
| 10 | A key issues review should take approximately 1-3 days of a manager 's time and 1 day of a partner 's time depending on the size of the transaction . |
| 11 | This experienced man 's disquiet stemmed from the fact that the taking of a statutory sample , while visible in the organization , is ( as he saw it ) a potentially inefficient use of an officer 's time , and the pressure to take a formal sample to show up well in the league tables placed an improper constraint on the discretion necessary to do the job efficiently . |
| 12 | Enforcement agents , accordingly , organize intelligence systems to circumvent these problems ; in fact much of an officer 's time is devoted to the discovery of pollution . |
| 13 | She 'll say right going in she 'll say right the next lot will be going in in er ten minutes to one which may be a quarter of an hour 's time like , you know , so it 's all timed they do n't let a few there 's a the second go in . |
| 14 | Some of these companies also specialise in making tapes for syndication to local radio and with a strong topical theme this kind of approach can achieve a good deal of coverage without taking up too much of an executive 's time . |
| 15 | If there 's any oil or gas , they 'll hit it in about a fortnight 's time at 4,000ft — 5,000ft : |
| 16 | ‘ About a month 's time . |
| 17 | ‘ In about a month 's time . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm going down in about a month 's time . |
| 19 | This alone can make it worth a reporter 's time to come along . |
| 20 | Read completed a double with a 1min 03.82sec time for the 100m . |
| 21 | In just under a month 's time , Saturday June the fourteenth to be precise , the university will be holding its Silver Jubilee Open Day . |
| 22 | It was ten-thirty and the wedding was fixed for an hour 's time . |
| 23 | With the present pace of things these survivors may in a generation 's time become a picturesque memory like the yeoman 's smock . |
| 24 | We care about the old age pensioners the poor the single parents and all those people who in a winter 's time are going to struggle and some are tragically going to fail to pay seventeen and a half percent V A T on fuel and heating bills . |
| 25 | In a fortnight 's time , when the company replies to a call for a substantial increase in pay and a reduction in the working week , John Hougham , personnel director , will probably throw that philosophy back at him . |
| 26 | In a fortnight 's time she hopes to have 40 different organic producers and suppliers under one roof . |
| 27 | ‘ In a fortnight 's time , or perhaps a day or so before ; it all depends on the weather . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ At this moment , yes , but he 'd been promoted to registrar and would have assumed that title in a fortnight 's time . ’ |
| 29 | That denied David James the distinction of his first clean-sheet for Liverpool , but it will hardly raise Apollon 's hopes of a fight-back in Limassol in a fortnight 's time . |
| 30 | A tasty two-week campaign on national telly will go out in a fortnight 's time in the kids ' peak viewing slot — just between the early evening news and the popular Home And Away soap . |