Example sentences of "[art] [adj] amount [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 4.2 shows the total amount of time spent by the clients in institutional care ( whether short- or long-term ) in the first six months , and in the first 12 months , after referral to the psychogeriatric service . |
| 2 | The total amount of time taken up in such social exchanges or interactions in this sample is in fact relatively small : a division of housewives into three groups according to the proportion of work time thus occupied — less than twenty-five per cent , between twenty-five and fifty per cent , more than fifty per cent — revealed the majority of women to be in the first group ; there was no significant relationship with work satisfaction patterns . |
| 3 | The feature of most interest is sentence length , because when we estimate the contribution made by each feature to the total amount of time spent reading , it is the number of words in a sentence which makes the largest difference between the two groups . |
| 4 | By far the greatest amount of time was spent in journeys to town for spare parts , veterinary medicines , etc. , or as in one case , where the wife was particularly active , to check the livestock prices with a view to selling cattle . |
| 5 | Because until G C S E you are fed , the school is fed , in that you are told fairly quickly what you have to do and although I know that a number of you spends the right amount of time or a lot of time on homework , you are told usually , er you have erm a night or two nights in which to do this particular piece of work now once you get into the sixth form |
| 6 | Which will give you just about the right amount of time then to walk up . |
| 7 | My profession was so time-consuming it was hard to spend the proper amount of time with them . |
| 8 | , I hope you 're not , well several interesting things have come out of there , it just shows the sort of thing about working under pressure , and the limited amount of time , erm , the limited amount of planning time for the managers certainly . |
| 9 | No account is taken of the importance of housework to women , either in terms of the simple amount of time women spend on domestic-care activities , or in terms of the personal meaning of housework to women ( which may , of course , vary with different social locations ) . |
| 10 | Turning to the principal carer 's involvement with the dementia sufferer , it was easy to see the tremendous amount of time and energy expended by most of them . |
| 11 | Although most borrowers take out a loan over 25 years , five years is the average amount of time homeowners spend in one property before they move to another . |
| 12 | Although most borrowers take out a loan over 25 years , five years is the average amount of time borrowers spend in one property before they move to another . |
| 13 | For a programme in which you can devote six hours a day to language learning , Brewster and Brewster suggest the following amounts of time on each phrase : In your daily programme you may experience two reactions — boredom or frustration . |
| 14 | He , too , seemed visibly affected by the brief amount of time he had been able to spend with his brother . |
| 15 | Right I 'll be for the rest of the tutorial really , erm find yourselves something to do , I just really want to follow up er the little amount of time that I spent with second years er looking at their action plans . |
| 16 | This is borne out by a ) the incredible amount of time and energy being put in at the WFS conference to the forthcoming Chesterfield Socialist conference and bI the constant egotistical/individualistic remarks made by conference participants , who had no interest whatsoever in building support for women 's struggle , ( and in many cases continued unchallenged with these views ) 2 ) That the conference had very few Black women in attendance , we saw around 12 out of the many hundreds ( although we were over represented in the creche and began to wonder whether this was the ’ Black women only ’ space created for us ) . |
| 17 | We noted in Chapter 3 that the large amounts of time allocated to language and mathematics were sometimes the least efficiently used . |
| 18 | ‘ And the large amount of time that the journey took also cast doubt . |
| 19 | In view of the substantial amount of time and effort involved in a buy-out , it is essential that , wherever possible , the commitment of the vendor is obtained as soon as possible . |
| 20 | However , each National Board will wish to evolve re-entry programmes with their own country 's needs and priori-ties in mind , and this may be reflected in the modus operandi of individual boards , and the considerable amount of time and discussion which will no doubt take place in advance of reaching a UK wide agreement . |
| 21 | One of the most fascinating aspects of Spycatcher is how Wright describes the enormous amount of time wasted on petty departmental quarrels and jealousies with each person guarding his little private empire . |
| 22 | I found myself tolerant of Ghanaian customs that I had previously criticized , like the enormous amount of time and attention given to funerals . |
| 23 | The includers are not always merely disinterested advocates of a philosophy , but people who have become so through experience , through the sheer amount of time they spend with members of the excluded social group . |
| 24 | Many field officers are preoccupied with the increasing amount of time which must be spent in the office with paper — ‘ keeping the organization at bay ’ , as one of the more critical men put it . |
| 25 | Apart from financial advantages , environmental preferences and the increasing amount of time available for leisure may also attract elderly migrants to non-metropolitan areas ( Law and Warnes 1973 ) . |
| 26 | Just as the slightest of doubts about him crossed my mind — perhaps during one of his endless lists of the women 's sexual problems — he would throw in a sensible remark about the funding of the National Health Service , or the small amount of time GPs can offer patients , and recovered his credibility . |
| 27 | The workers have been on duty for the same amount of time whenever measurements are made . |
| 28 | Then I shall batter her with the club for the same amount of time . |
| 29 | After many years , when children no longer need the same amount of time and attention from their parents , many find that their lives are no longer full of interesting social contacts and experiences . |
| 30 | If you had knitted the ribbed welt , it might have knitted 300 rows in the same amount of time . |