Example sentences of "as [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tim Reagan , who would not have dared to give his French wife as little time as Claudia Yeo got , murmured that this was of course important and good luck to them , indeed . |
| 2 | Anyone doing market research wants to find out as much information as possible in as little time as possible . |
| 3 | All food , but especially meat , poultry , fish and milk , should spend as little time as possible at temperatures between 5°C ( 41°F ) and 63°C ( 145°F ) . |
| 4 | In this way the haulier spends as little time as possible on the matter and is free to get on with what he does best — haulage . |
| 5 | If you would rather wait I could come back later , but it is , of course , important to lose as little time as possible . ’ |
| 6 | Aurangzeb spent as little time as possible in the city , preferring to continue his campaigns from Aurangabad , his own foundation in the Deccan . |
| 7 | His skin was bronzed , his thinning hair was bleached by sun and sea , and Wycliffe felt sure that he spent as little time as possible away from boats , the sea , and the club bar . |
| 8 | Owner of a fabled art collection in California , which he was too busy ever to visit , his soon familiar face , like a bloodhound lugubriously scenting wasted pennies , was one symbol of the times : if you , too , struck oil you could be as rich and careworn as Getty and have as little time and capacity to enjoy it . |
| 9 | But you 'd be hard pressed to find someone who takes as much time and care with a musical instrument as Tony Zemaitis . |
| 10 | For several years , in the late 1960s and the early 1970s , sociologists seemed to spend as much time and effort arguing about how they should be thinking about and studying the social world as they did in actually doing research . |
| 11 | Though the Court of Appeal is also a court of supervision , it appears to be too busy to be able to devote as much time and thought as is needed to such cases . |
| 12 | I only wish and I mean this very sincerely I only wish we could spend as much time and as often as is spent discussing fox hunting on the county 's homeless , on abused children , on the handicapped , on the increasing crime and on unemployment and I only wish that the media and the public and even members of this council would take as much notice of that as they do about this debate on fox hunting . |
| 13 | They do this because they are not as quick as the opposition and want to give themselves as much time as possible to play the ball , no matter that they also give the other player more time . |
| 14 | Neighbourhood police are supposed to spend as much time as possible per shift walking their beat , even taking tea-breaks at some appropriate place on the round , returning to the station only for their main meal break and when a criminal , such as a shoplifter , is apprehended , although this is rare . |
| 15 | Ideally , all that needs to be said can be said in an hour , and if you think the journalist is genuinely interested in your work , try to give him or her as much time as required — it is appreciated . |
| 16 | Charles became as adept at changing nappies and bathing William as Diana , and , even when he was small , both spent as much time as they could with him . |
| 17 | They had rather hoped that political questions would take up at least as much time as trade problems during this week 's visit to Japan . |
| 18 | For a week after his punishment Endill spent as much time as he could lying down . |
| 19 | I have not heard anything more since then , and am anxious to give you as much time as possible working with the tape before asking you for feedback on your experiences with it . |
| 20 | I shall be writing the notes on my experiments , of course , and I intend to spend as much time as I can refuting Carslake 's idiotic principle . |
| 21 | Spend as much time as possible in the open air . |
| 22 | We shall become poor men , nomads who possess nothing , just wandering minds who spend only as much time as is needed on our physical affairs and then depart free men . |
| 23 | Spend as much time as possible with those who support you in every way . |
| 24 | Both she and Dr Leitch spent as much time as they could spare talking to the young parents who would come to collect these patients on discharge . |
| 25 | During the first few weeks , it 's important that you spend as much time as possible with a new resident , getting to know them and their family and working on their care plan . |
| 26 | If training officers themselves are not common , staff who can devote as much time as they would like , to training , ( whatever their title ) appear to be very rare indeed . |
| 27 | This time around , Chadwick 's approach to recording the album was to spend as much time as possible rehearsing and re-rehearsing the songs before they went into the studio . |
| 28 | AFTER THE MONTHS of location shooting in Cornwall , and the completion of the interiors of Straw Dogs at Twickenham Studios in London in March 1971 , Dustin returned to his New York home , determined to spend as much time as possible with his family , only going down to his production office , SweetWall Productions , on West 56th Street , for a few hours a day . |
| 29 | After that , since she now spent as much time as possible on deck keeping out of the way of her cousins , with whom she felt a constraint , Ruth saw the woman for several days in a row . |
| 30 | Michael Short , the director of the National Association for Gifted Children , says prodigies should spend as much time as possible with their peer group . |