Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Community care plans are often bedevilled by too many people from too many organizations spending too much time in endless meetings where no decisions get taken and where ideas and enthusiasm become diluted and , eventually , dissipated into thin air . |
| 2 | Straightforward deliveries direct to readers took comparatively little time for ‘ ordinary ’ books housed in the Main Building : more than half ( 52% ) were delivered within ten minutes , and more than nine out of ten ( 92% ) had been delivered within twenty minutes . |
| 3 | In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example . |
| 4 | Administrative support is inadequate , so that inspectors spend too much time on routine , low-level , clerical tasks . |
| 5 | In one sense they are the British equivalent of political advertising on American television ‘ but they differ from such advertising in three very important ways : first , PFB broadcasting is free ( although the parties have to bear at least some of the production costs — indeed , all of the production costs if they wish to use private production facilities ) ; second , the number of PEB broadcasts is fixed by agreement between broadcasters and the parties to reflect ( roughly ) the current popular standing of the parties ( in 1987 Labour , the Liberal-SDP Alliance , and the Conservatives got exactly equal time for PEBs while other parties received very much less ) ; third , the broadcasters have insisted , against the politicians ’ wishes , that PEBs be short programmes typically ten minutes long , rather than high-impact adverts of perhaps twenty or thirty seconds ' duration . |
| 6 | If you own a microwave oven , jacket potatoes take very little time to cook yet form a base for a tasty meal ( add tuna , beans , sweetcorn , cottage cheese or whatever low-fat filling takes your fancy ) . |
| 7 | The implications of this accelerated diffusion of technology and rapid translation into innovative products are that companies have very little time to rest on the strength of any one currently successful product . |
| 8 | Bands spend too much time chasing A&R personnel and other industry figures , and not enough time chasing punters , developing a following and creating a ‘ buzz ’ . |
| 9 | And , quite frankly , I think that that women these days have very little time in which to indulge themselves in their own hobbies and interests , and I think women should stand up and say to the government , no you will not inflict this responsibility upon us ! |
| 10 | The criticisms have fallen into certain categories , one general line being that the service has failed to adopt modern methods of management , that it has been slow in understanding the use of statistical information and of specialized knowledge of the social services , and that it does not think ahead enough or organize its planning on a sufficiently systematic basis , in part because officials spend too much time on routine departmental work . |
| 11 | That the potters devoted so much time and care into applying these techniques would appear to indicate the existence of willing purchasers . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , radio producers set aside some time each week to meet pluggers . |
| 13 | It is a paradox of modern-day business that , with time-saving devices such as desk-top computers , satellite telecommunications , electronic mail and supersonic aircraft , many managers find even less time to devote to essential profit-making activities — such as thinking and listening to people . |
| 14 | The aftershocks intensify threefold each time . |
| 15 | The frequency of such bids has made it seem that stockmarket valuations are arbitrary , that bidders are stealing money from somebody else rather than creating wealth , and that American and British managers spend too much time shuffling assets and too little investing ( that is , building factories ) for the future . |
| 16 | The worry takes two main forms : that American managers spend too much time thinking about short-term earnings rather than making long-term investments ; and that American firms face a higher cost of capital than Japanese or German rivals and so reject investment projects that others eagerly accept . |
| 17 | In essence , effective teams spend as much time on the how as on the what . ) |
| 18 | The daily routines of most working class wives left conspicuously little time for leisure . |
| 19 | The proposed new contract for general practice is trying to force general practitioners to spend far more time sitting in the surgery waiting to consult with patients . |
| 20 | As it is , Back Benchers have precious little time and it should not be reduced further . |
| 21 | But the poll had some good news for men — only one in 10 girls said their partners spend too much time in the pub . |
| 22 | Dampier had warned on the eve of the tournament that home hopes would suffer if his players spent too much time in the penalty box . |
| 23 | For years I found it very odd that the disciples spent very little time talking about the significance of the death of Jesus or even the person of Jesus . |
| 24 | A private party in some high-rise apartment block ; looking down into the city from the forty-second floor , it was like being inside a radio , one of those old valve radios , and Jed almost told Creed what he thought , he almost blurted something Creed would n't even have understood , You must 've had radios thrown away some time , did n't you ? but the rush blew over and he was still staring down into the forest of lit buildings and he still had n't spoken . |
| 25 | Her Majesty 's Inspectors in their report on the teaching of English published in 1987 were particularly concerned by the low standard of teaching for A level English : ‘ Teachers spend too much time scrutinizing past papers and then drilling students in what are taken to be the ‘ correct ’ answers . |
| 26 | She would read and everything else , and there was nine of us children had that much time , but we had a very happy childhood in lots of ways . |
| 27 | As can be seen in figure women in Nepal and the Ivory Coast spend the majority of their time in housework , whilst the men spend very little time . |
| 28 | Effective history teaching may also require that pupils spend as much time away from the screen , discussing , hypothesising and analysing their findings , as actually working at the keyboard . |
| 29 | I thank Tony Ridley , Chairman of the Transport Policy Committee , and Alan Waller , Dean of the Faculty of Freight , for their skill in persuading busy specialists to give so much time and effort to the CIT . |
| 30 | One of the basic things to be negotiated is the matter of running the home , now that there are two adults spending so much time in it . |