Example sentences of "rather [subord] [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ride a long way and in late afternoon ( sun time rather than clock time , which has long ceased to be important to us ) we stop for coffee so that Odd-Knut can work out a route . |
| 2 | The shots had sounded from the hills somewhere to the north , and rather than wasting time on the main path that rose with the gentle contours of the valley , we took a short cut up the steep , almost sheer , cliff behind the houses . |
| 3 | Personal independence can also be encouraged if the visually handicapped pupil can find , fetch and return materials from known locations rather than wasting time trying to investigate muddled cupboards , or asking or expecting the fully sighted to undertake the searching . |
| 4 | He remembered him as ‘ a brown bagger ’ , that is a man who to save money brought a sandwich lunch in a brown bag rather than waste time and money eating in the mess . |
| 5 | If insufficient attention has been devoted to the design of this and also the related access procedures the symptoms are a plethora of documentation which no individual entirely understands , the temptation to do it again rather than waste time finding out how something has already been done and too much reliance on the human memory . |
| 6 | Darlington 's Conservative MP , Michael Fallon , said : ‘ It is far more important to get the valuations right rather than fulfil time limits set down by local councils . ’ |
| 7 | That help makes all the difference to people sick with AIDS who want to stay at home , rather than spend time unnecessarily in hospital . |
| 8 | ‘ Some may find it easier and quicker to give out a simple number rather than spend time asking about diet and so on . ’ |
| 9 | The use of calendar rather than trading time may be because interest accrues in calendar time , and information arrives during non-trading periods ( although possibly at a slower rate than in trading time ) . |