Example sentences of "quite [art] [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of us consumed quite a bit of time on the complications . |
| 2 | And it is you know it seems to take up quite a bit of time for members of staff and we do as many as we can but sometimes we have to say sorry we we ca n't do any more this week . |
| 3 | I like to make it [ the house ] nice , you know , and I like to spend quite a bit of time cooking and that . |
| 4 | I 've had the opportunity to observe other social strata recently having spent quite a bit of time in London . |
| 5 | And do y And do you spend quite a bit of time d on housework or n |
| 6 | ( This first turn can take quite a bit of time while the game gets under way ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd spent quite a bit of time then visiting district nurses and accident and emergency departments which gave me a real insight into the health service and an understanding of the commitment there was around , ’ Cruickshank said . |
| 8 | Oh yeah , you 've got quite a bit of time , number seven . |
| 9 | Now it 's quite likely that next time I come we can spend quite a bit of time doing this same thing again yeah cos there 's a lot in it there 's angles using a protractor adding things up to check they come to the total that the angles come to three sixty and there 's this thing about fractions there 's cancelling fractions and then there 's working with quite big numbers three hundred and sixty what 's two fifteenths of three hundred and sixty mm that 's quite hard . |
| 10 | And I 'd like you to both spend quite a bit of time just playing with the numbers that make up three sixty . |
| 11 | lasted quite a period of time because they wanted to make sure that he knew what he was doing and everything |
| 12 | The Foreign Secretary said : ‘ My right honourable friend knows that I have spent quite a lot of time in the last four years as Home Secretary , with his full support , trying to plug loopholes , trying to keep our immigration control strict and fair . |
| 13 | I had also been taking up quite a lot of time for public service , chairing the National Gas Consumers ' Council , and also , more relevantly , working under Richard Hoggart who was chairing the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education , which had a remit to develop national policies for education as a process continuing throughout life . |
| 14 | Ten minutes spent in this way could well save you quite a lot of time in the long run . |
| 15 | Although the family ties were not very close , we have always been very friendly and spent quite a lot of time together . |
| 16 | many improvements will not be instantly achievable — most will take time and some will take quite a lot of time ; |
| 17 | Yes , we spent quite a lot of time alone together , started going to bed and all that , and yes we were sensible enough to know that even when you 're falling in love you should n't live entirely in one another 's pockets . |
| 18 | Quite a lot of time ( and wood ) can be saved by careful preparation of the stock . |
| 19 | This leads us on to OBSERVATION : so that quite a lot of time should be given over to looking . |
| 20 | Remember that you will be spending quite a lot of time out there working , and probably some time observing . |
| 21 | Pater 's as busy as ever , of course , but the mater has kept on the house in London since Madeleine 's season , so I spend quite a lot of time in the Great Big City seeing shows , etc. etc . |
| 22 | Of course , Madame Duvalle will come over every month to see that I 'm doing things the right way and Monsieur Félix intends to spend quite a lot of time in London . |
| 23 | You can then complete it and then he will make an appointment with you to come to your house and he 'll spend quite a lot of time they really do ascertaining your personal circumstances . |
| 24 | The museums are going to take quite a lot of time . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll probably be spending quite a lot of time writing poetry . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ When we were first married , I knew you would have to spend quite a lot of time on your own , when I was tied up with business affairs . |
| 27 | Alyssia had for some reason thought that he spent the majority of his life in England , but it turned out that , although he owned a flat in London , he spent quite a lot of time working overseas . |
| 28 | You can spend quite a lot of time subsequently getting the machine configured just as you want it but at least you can relax in the knowledge that it all works and the difficult part of the upgrade is well and truly over . |
| 29 | The thing the thing about MPs is they they think erm You have to be fairly careful because I I spend quite a lot of time interviewing MPs and I I think that er er they 're quite interesting some of the time to talk to . |
| 30 | Well I do want to come back in fact an and reassure er you that er in fact er we are very concerned about that and we spend a great deal of time talking about the A P C's erm statement policy of intent because it was intended to be modified in the way which we thought would and we spent quite a lot of time erm discussing and am re-amending the importance . |