Example sentences of "[noun] of time [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Estimating the mass of all the matter in the Universe is not an easy task but , in the past few years , many scientists have devoted a great deal of time to it . |
| 2 | It took a good deal of time for me and it to get together . |
| 3 | I had to develop communication methods which became so automatic , so intuitive , that facts , ideas and opinions flowed easily and effectively without loss of time between me and the rest of humanity living or dead . |
| 4 | It 's best not to try and fit it in during school breaks because you need a continuous stretch of time at it . |
| 5 | We would have long , complicated discussions whenever the days allowed a stretch of time between us . |
| 6 | somebody 's going to have to spend a bit of time with them over the week about the presume I 'm gon na have the time |
| 7 | My Dad 's away on business again tomorrow and I want to spend a bit of time with him before he goes . |
| 8 | Accordingly , on 12 June 1940 Lord Woolton , Minister of Food , despatched a memorandum to the Food Policy Committee of the War Cabinet in which he identified three groups in the population to whom food distribution should be improved : workers in factories ( ‘ if we are to obtain the maximum production over a long period of time from them ’ ) , people on low incomes and ‘ children of school age and under and nursing mothers whom , on grounds both of humanity and of racial preservation , it is essential we should protect against malnutrition ’ . |
| 9 | Waste of time with ours , it wants bloody cementing in . |
| 10 | ‘ Sounds a waste of time to me . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm glad Durham seem pleased with the way it worked out , but it will have been a waste of time for me if I do n't do well in Sri Lanka and in the home series against West Indies . |
| 12 | I know but it 's just , waste of time in it ? they 'd been better spent to finish the order that they did have , and inject that , ha oh be fair to do that to use though , no doubt they will , pick out all the things we did n't do right bloody should done too many of this or not enough of that |
| 13 | It is the doing of one or more acts which individually or collectively amount to such adverse interference with or usurpation of the owner 's rights which constitute appropriation under section 3(1) and I do not think it matters where there is more than one such act in which order the successive acts take place , or whether there is any interval of time between them . |
| 14 | For instance , the yellow pansy can mean ‘ souvenirs ’ , or ‘ the oceans may part us but my heart is still with you ’ and the purple pansy means ‘ memories of time with you ’ . |
| 15 | Living to live in a world of time beyond me ; let me |
| 16 | So many people have an interest in this topic and would therefore expect us to spend a good amount of time on it . |
| 17 | My profession was so time-consuming it was hard to spend the proper amount of time with them . |
| 18 | Spending even this short amount of time with him had been a big mistake . |
| 19 | mind , she took a lot of time over it |
| 20 | The children had obviously spent a lot of time on them . ’ |
| 21 | And to be honest I said it was n't worth wasting a lot of time on them . |
| 22 | They did n't have a lot of time on it and it was effectively an engineer/producer , rather than a producer . |
| 23 | Cos we 've spent an awful lot of time on it . |
| 24 | And you could waste an awful lot of time on it . |
| 25 | He comes out , and he , he went down there , and looked out , because we 'd spent a lot of time on it , getting it right , and we were well chuffed about it . |
| 26 | ‘ When you are developing an act up to a record deal , you spend a lot of time with them , ’ confirms Doyle . |
| 27 | Well , Richard and I knew the Duke and Duchess of Windsor quite well , and spent a lot of time with them in Paris , and this was our favourite piece of jewellery . |
| 28 | I spend I spend a lot of time with them so I spend a lot talking to them . |
| 29 | But what I do n't like is that Hilary Frome seems to spend a lot of time with him . ’ |
| 30 | I spent a lot of time with him . |