Example sentences of "up a [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He picked up a copy of Time magazine , the cover story was about Canada ; maybe the British Dominion would be the compromise . |
| 2 | He found that the canonry and the cathedral , and the administration in the university , took up a lot of time . |
| 3 | The problem was that we were firefighting not just for ourselves but for so many of our clients , and firefighting takes up a lot of time and emotionally is a strain . |
| 4 | Campaigning is a demanding business and it swallows up a lot of time without guaranteeing success , said group secretary George Knowles . |
| 5 | There I finally decided to throw in my efforts at making contact with the Delhi eunuchs ; it was taking up a lot of time and there was still no hint of a breakthrough : after ten days I still knew as little about them as I had when I had begun . |
| 6 | And after I got the job at the centre , erm that took up a lot of time for er a few weeks till I settled down . |
| 7 | It is not very good , you see , on Government responsibility and this takes up a lot of time . |
| 8 | This all takes up a lot of time ; we are under great pressure today . |
| 9 | She says her husband has another business — which takes up a lot of time . |
| 10 | But anyway I know it takes up a lot of time and a lot of our columns . |