Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1987 more than half of Scottish consultant psychiatrists were spending some time each week in primary care settings compared with fewer than a fifth in England and Wales . |
| 2 | A poll of 492 firms showed that 70% find audit work ‘ uneconomic ’ as a result of the cost of audit regulation , combined with client pressure on fees : 76.8% said that more partners and staff were spending non-chargeable time on audit regulation matters , while only 31.7% were able to pass these increased costs on to clients . |
| 3 | A number of arts professional development teachers reported that their involvement in schools was often initiated by primary headteachers feeling that staff were giving inadequate time to an area of the curriculum vital to the personal development of the pupils . |
| 4 | RUC were taking some time to settle down but once Davy Barbour had landed his first penalty from about 50 metres the lights went out and the Holywood stars faded . |
| 5 | Ten were working full time when interviewed , only two being unemployed ( one by choice since surgery ; the second for medical reasons ) . |
| 6 | By the middle years of the nineteenth century a high proportion of the male workforce were without land and were working full time at the craft ; women and girls also found employment in large numbers . |