Example sentences of "spend more time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are also likely to have greater need for heating than other groups , because they spend more time at home . |
| 2 | Instead of concentrating on the lines of the dance — which they will need if they ever dance in Ashton 's Symphonic Variations or Monotones , MacMillan 's Requiem or Bintley 's Consort Lessons — students spend more time loosening up to meet the demands of modern choreographers . |
| 3 | The traditional Land-Rover is simply too agricultural to compete against the Japanese , especially as these vehicles spend more time ploughing round town than wading through mire . |
| 4 | With a new film , The Hard Way , now showing at the cinema , it 's hard to believe that Michael J Fox resolved last year to give up being a film star and spend more time with his wife , Tracy Pollan , and their son , Sam , who 's three this week . |
| 5 | I spend more time on my face and skin than I do on my hair . |
| 6 | The richer ABs spend more time shopping for DIY products , and buy more , than members of any other social group . |
| 7 | Sadly , mine is a sort of hole in the wall — not possible to move — so I spend more time running back and forth to fetch tools than I do using them . |
| 8 | Carers with a dependant living in the same household spend more time caring than those with a dependant in another household . |
| 9 | Although the peak age for caring is 45–64 , with one fifth of adults in this age group providing informal care , the 65 and over age group proportionately spend more time caring . |
| 10 | In the absence of special factors , the base is likely to be the place where you ordinarily work , even though in fact you spend more time away from your base than you do there . |
| 11 | Many people spend more time planning a holiday than in preparing for retirement , which may well occupy up to thirty years of life . |
| 12 | It is very difficult to cover all the possible eventualities in the forty-odd hours of the PPL course , but I now spend more time teaching emergencies connected with power reductions . |
| 13 | Or spend more time alone ? |
| 14 | MANY people spend more time worrying about how they are going to cope with catering for Christmas than they do actually cooking the bird and all the trimmings . |
| 15 | The normally outgoing Garel-Jones has been looking tired lately , say his friends , who believe he genuinely wants to bow out of the spotlight and spend more time with his family . |
| 16 | He complained that whenever he asked Huston what tomorrow 's shooting schedule was , the director would simply reply , ‘ Spend more time absorbing the beauty of the scenery and less time worrying about your part . ’ |
| 17 | Working people probably spend more time in the company of their workmates than with their marriage partners , and almost certainly more than with other friends and relatives . |
| 18 | Obviously the ratio of direct to indirect work varies with different occupations but , in nearly all , practitioners find that they spend more time on the latter than they think is appropriate . |
| 19 | ‘ I spend more time with my four dogs than anyone else because I am often alone writing . |
| 20 | ‘ I spend more time with me hand , it 's a lot less f—ing hassle , ’ claims Mark . |
| 21 | They are more into weights , running … they spend more time on general fitness . ’ |
| 22 | Comparing long-tailed families , as birds spend more time flying and rely more on aerial agility when feeding , we should expect graduated tails to become less common than streamers . |
| 23 | Productivity increases as we spend more time and energy , but only up to a critical point . |
| 24 | In the meantime , he says , clients of conservators also need to act responsibly when they entrust a work of art to someone : ‘ They spend more time and more effort looking for an auto mechanic than they do finding someone to restore a work of art ’ . |
| 25 | However , Gershuny 's ( 1983 ) work has shown that married women typically spend more time on housework than their husbands , even if they also have paid employment . |
| 26 | This , again , is a point appreciated by Goody : ‘ Some individuals spend more time with the written language than they do with the spoken . |
| 27 | We spend more time together than many married couples . ’ |
| 28 | No wonder , then , that the disc gods spend more time in bickering than in omnicognizance . |
| 29 | Many children spend more time in front of the television screen than they do in the classroom . |
| 30 | I do not merely spend time in Manchester — where I spend more time than anywhere else outside London and my constituency , which is my home town . |