Example sentences of "of their time to [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Liz Hannam reports , the RSPCA devote up to a third of their time to dealing with farmers and their animals , in the society 's ceaseless crusade against cruelty . |
| 2 | The outcome ( perhaps this would have happened whoever had been at the Ministry of Labour ) was that most of the principal figures of the Government devoted a good part of their time to assisting Steel-Maitland in his job . |
| 3 | Males can produce sperms at a faster rate than females can produce eggs , and are therefore selected to allocate more of their time to searching and competing for mates than are females . |
| 4 | They thought they could regain his soul by sorcery , and so they devoted all of their time to weaving a spell to do so . |
| 5 | But in a sense , they will stand a better chance of staying open and being appreciated and supported by the public , if in fact they 're going to devote a modicum of their time to explaining to the popular , population as a whole , what they 're doing , why it 's important and why they should carry on doing it . |