Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Barclays and Lloyds have spent much time and energy privately rubbishing Switch , in efforts to promote their own debit cards . |
| 2 | The Dallas daily says that General Motors and General Electric have met several times in recent months to examine ways to increase their influence over the likes of IBM Corp , Compaq Computer Corp , Dell Computer Corp and Apple Computer Inc , quoting executives involved in the talks and industry analysts and the pact could create a consortium with a requirement as many as 100,000 desktop personal computers annually . |
| 3 | The past three months have proved difficult times for community mental health care policy . |
| 4 | Since then , senior representatives of General Motors , Ford and Chrysler have met several times administration officials led by the president 's science adviser , John Gibbons , and Deputy Secretary of Commerce-designate John Rollwagen . |
| 5 | British banks have had less time than their American counterparts to develop clear strategies towards property . |
| 6 | As the focus of the Bretton Woods institutions has moved across the Atlantic to central Europe deep-seated fears have arisen that time , resources and energy will be diverted from the economies of the southern hemisphere . |
| 7 | Since Cooke took charge the teams have played four times with the score standing at 2–2 . |
| 8 | And there 's so much voluntary work to be done if people have got spare time to go and help but , I do n't know whether it 's the sign of the times that people only want to do jobs for monetary gain . |
| 9 | Now the speculators have hit hard times and are desperately trying to off-load the cars which have become millstones around their necks . |
| 10 | Few divers have spent more time under waters as diverse as the Pacific Ocean and the Red Sea . |
| 11 | Sociologists and political scientists have devoted much time to developing a variety of theories on the determination of public sector expenditure . |
| 12 | It is a tribute to the importance of her personality that her advisers have spent much time on her image . |
| 13 | In fact , by the time they reach the age of 18 , most children have spent more time in front of the TV set than at school . |
| 14 | ( Incidentally , the official club year and Annual General Meeting date have shifted several times over the years ) . |
| 15 | Such has been the pace of South Africa 's re-entry into the world arena that Rhodes and his team mates have had little time to be overawed by the situation , which for a youngster from a small town in Natal is quite remarkable . |
| 16 | Health units have found that over the past two years nurses have taken more time off sick with qualified nurses taking an average of 14 days off each year . |
| 17 | Within the marine environment itself some palaeontologists believe that the overall richness of the marine fauna was established early on , say by the Silurian period , and that there has not been a great increase in the total number of species living in the sea at any one time since then , although of course the kinds of organisms inhabiting the sea have changed many times . |
| 18 | Studies of food workers ' skin have shown die-off times within half an hour . |
| 19 | Since 1964 the Furniture unions have tried three times to organise the workers of Spiralynx ; each time a small number of workers have joined a union , the management have found out and workers have been dissuaded from joining . |
| 20 | Since 1955 the amount of CFCs in the atmosphere have increased 25 times . |