Example sentences of "spends a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield spends a good deal of time travelling up and down the country proclaiming his devotion to training and enterprise councils . |
| 2 | The demands on the children are increased if the father spends a great deal of his leisure time with his men friends … |
| 3 | But she also spends a great deal of time walking and studying , in the day , at night . |
| 4 | The old male remains loosely attached to the harem and spends a great deal of time caring for his infants . |
| 5 | The ribbon is made , and thenceforth she spends a great deal of time over her hair . |
| 6 | It is clear that Watson spends a great deal of time wrestling with his conscience over the choice between morals and results . |
| 7 | The cuckoo , especially the male when singing , spends a great deal of time sitting on exposed perches , making it particularly vulnerable . |
| 8 | Although he is based in Paris and spends a great deal of his time in his various houses in France , Lagerfeld is , in the way he conducts his life and work , a relic of an older Germany — a country of small principalities , ruled , like Herzog 's eighteenth-century Weimar , by cultured and cultivated monarchs who surrounded themselves with small courts of aristocrats , intellectuals and kindred creative spirits . |
| 9 | These are by no means unusual examples , and Tannen spends a great deal of her paper speculating on why we do it . |
| 10 | Tithonus spends a great deal of time in the poem reflecting on the past . |