Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] amount [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , your travels will be dependent on the amount of time you 're prepared to invest behind the wheel . |
| 2 | Her mother was becoming suspicious at the amount of time she spent in her room , but Lizzie had told her everyone liked to be on their own at times . |
| 3 | Oxfordshire teachers who have been involved are negative about the amount of time that the scheme takes . |
| 4 | This result was particularly striking when junctions were considered individually and it became clear that this relationship was at least partly independent of the amount of time spent at the junction , number of vehicles seen and the judgment of estimated risk made at the same time . |
| 5 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 6 | The accredited representative , who was growing anxious about the amount of time being wasted while the flight recording remained unread , then told the magistrate that he was concerned that another BAC 1–11 might suffer a similar accident while they remained ignorant of its cause and that if this should happen the magistrate would have to bear the responsibility . |
| 7 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |