Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the centuries Cornwall 's tin output has totalled about 10 times the annual quantity the world produces now . |
| 2 | Teresa Moylan ( Mrs Clements ) has given up full time work because of her children . |
| 3 | He is in the 100 kilogramme class and has lifted nearly four times his own weight . |
| 4 | Henry Bordes-Pages , spokesman on research for the white-collar union CGG says : ‘ The government has spent too much time on debates . |
| 5 | Mr Clinton has spent far more time on foreign policy than he or most of his staff anticipated . |
| 6 | The first is a quote from Al Deere , one of the most famous Battle of Britain pilots : Fate is a strange master and I have always been a fatalist , — he should be a fatalist he has baled out nine times in his air-lighting life . |
| 7 | Gerber , South Africa 's record try-scorer with 19 , has touched down four times in as many internationals and his centre partnership with Pieter Muller poses a more difficult challenge to Carling and Jeremy Guscott than they may have envisaged three months ago . |
| 8 | The growth of the international bond market is evident from Table 5.1 , which shows that issuance has increased over ten times in nominal terms since 1975 . |
| 9 | The number of police officrs in the Thames Valley in relation to the population is still less than it was twenty years ago , yet crime has gone up six times . |
| 10 | In the past 11 years , the publicity budget for the Department of Education and Science has gone up 28 times . |
| 11 | Assuming that the Congress , which has wasted so much time so far , does not get round to final approval of any of the versions of the constitution , Mr Yeltsin could either wait until its next scheduled meeting in the autumn , seeking a compromise with parliament . |
| 12 | With our new store opening programme running to around 20 locations a year , it has taken relatively little time for the idea of the supermarket bakery not just to gain credence , but to become remarkably successful . |
| 13 | Judging the competition has taken quite some time and was no easy matter . |
| 14 | It has to take up private time — and at home . |
| 15 | For instance , a sales pitch claiming that a major discovery has been made in the North Sea sounds suspect to the investor who has lost out several times in the past . |
| 16 | Betty uses the scheme once a week , although she is unhappy about the fact that she has to spend so much time getting the equipment ready . |
| 17 | Gooch has complained too many times now that the players needed to compete more keenly . |
| 18 | It has burned down three times and is today known as Her Majesty 's . |
| 19 | For instance , the computation of the monthly statistics has changed over thirty times in the past decade . |
| 20 | It was only eight o'clock ; obviously I 'd conked out some time before everybody else , and they were still asleep ( I had heard appropriate log-sawing-like noises coming from Hamish and Tone 's room on my way back from the bathroom ) . |
| 21 | So then , with no better grace and without even a passing thought for Josie 's safety , Lucy pinned back her own hair and began to carry out the makeup job that she 'd undergone so many times before . |
| 22 | She told me , as she 'd done so many times , that happiness could never be created out of the misery of other people , that Héloise was already jealous of her and unhappy because of her influence with the children . ’ |
| 23 | Well , I 'd had so much time on the sick , they put me on half pay . |
| 24 | We 'd thought perhaps this time next year . ’ |
| 25 | he could get social security but here they closed the social security bit down in and he 'd nowhere so he came up here , oh he 'd stayed here many time previous to that . |
| 26 | Yeah I 'm sure you 'd packed up last time I saw you . |
| 27 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 28 | The Prime Minister 's speech was pitiful , not just because policies had collapsed but because he 'd spent so little time preparing it , so busy was he trying to help his chum . |
| 29 | The marriage must have broken up some time in 1980 . |
| 30 | I 'll just have to try harder next time … you 've got to keep going |