Example sentences of "how [adj] time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bet even they were surprised at how little time it took ! ’ |
| 2 | We toasted the couple with champagne , sampled Jean-Paul 's cake ( not bad , considering how little time he had to make it ) and were allowed to throw confetti over the happy couple in their BBC function room — or was it really Grey Gables ? |
| 3 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 4 | To attempt to calculate the cost for the long-stay psychogeriatric wards in the particular hospitals in the project would have involved an observational study of all the staff who had an input , for example doctors , nurses , occupational therapists , social workers , community psychiatric nurses , etc to see how much time they spent directly with the patients in the long-stay wards and how much time they spent indirectly in work connected with these patients such as in case conferences , meetings , administrative work , telephone calls and so on . |
| 5 | To attempt to calculate the cost for the long-stay psychogeriatric wards in the particular hospitals in the project would have involved an observational study of all the staff who had an input , for example doctors , nurses , occupational therapists , social workers , community psychiatric nurses , etc to see how much time they spent directly with the patients in the long-stay wards and how much time they spent indirectly in work connected with these patients such as in case conferences , meetings , administrative work , telephone calls and so on . |
| 6 | Ask the average person how much time they put into training their voice or obtaining feedback about the effect of their voice on others , and they will probably consider you to be a little mad . |
| 7 | Er , that enables that they choose how much time they need , er because it , do I need to go that time or that time ? |
| 8 | This is something we said we were going to discuss at a time in the future and I thought I 'd stick it on and see how much time we 'd got left . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know how much time we 've got with Piper , but I would n't have thought it was much . ’ |
| 10 | He said to the Thing : ‘ And do you know how much time we have before he starts going to Florida ? ’ |
| 11 | God knows how much time we spend in our lives scrutinizing our bodies . |
| 12 | Or perceptions of how much time it takes |
| 13 | It is useful , as a guide , for the staff to decide how much time it intends overall to devote to different subject areas , and what the pattern of delivery will look like for the learner . |
| 14 | you have this amount of trade in and this amount of prospect and your telling me if I have half trade in and half prospect , I 'd like to see the difference in how much time you spent on |
| 15 | Just so you know how much time you 've got left , Lorna , I would like you off that table please ! |
| 16 | Erm , even if you know how much time you 've got left , you never how long they 're going to talk for . |
| 17 | Forward planning consists simply of working out what you have to do to make a success of your course , working out how much time you require to complete the tasks and then breaking those tasks down into weekly schedules . |
| 18 | I think you 've got to be fair about how much time you give the family . |
| 19 | ‘ It does n't seem to make any difference how much time you spend with him , ’ she said equally bluntly . |
| 20 | It depends on how much time you want off . |
| 21 | When preparing a suggestion for costs to your opponents you should run through a checklist of the following tasks which are likely to have occupied your time during the case and assess how long you have spent on those tasks or how much time you think you should charge for having completed those tasks : Letters out , miscellaneous telephone calls . |
| 22 | Would give you that continuous conversation , erm where is , is life is it 's surprising how much time you do have to put into it . |
| 23 | In essence , it tells you how much time you have left before reaching the no-decompression limit and also how to manage decompression stops if you inadvertently exceed that limit , or elect to enter decompression . |
| 24 | In order to help the patient learn to judge distances , you can practise crossing roads with him , pointing out how far away any oncoming traffic is , and telling the patient whether there is time to cross the road , and , if so , how much time you have to get across . |
| 25 | Depends how much time I 've got . |
| 26 | How much time I have had to meditate on what transpired between us . |
| 27 | Asked why Hulme , with an open goal before him , did not move up further to be certain of his target before shooting , he answered that the man on the field did not have as clear a view of the situation around him as did the spectator and was not always aware of how much time he had for his moves . |
| 28 | Finch finished the movement and then came back to the other room , thinking of how much time he had spent with Henry and Betty over the years . |
| 29 | When I asked Michael how much time he spends in the garden he said , " We live in it ! |
| 30 | We ca n't really see , for instance , what help it is to the driver to know how much time he spent with wheelslip above the preset 18% limit . |