Example sentences of "[verb] considerable time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both policies , monetarists argue , involve considerable time lags , which can make them destabilizing . |
| 2 | Conversely the long winters allowed considerable time for off-farm work , particularly in the forests . |
| 3 | There is nothing a five-year-old likes better than being read to , although he may spend considerable time looking at books himself and may even pretend to read . |
| 4 | The CAB invests considerable time and energy in improving the standards of advice-giving for the seven million enquiries each year . |
| 5 | Effective personnel management requires considerable time and effort , and annual interviews ( appraisals ) are necessary to ensure a progressive environment in which partners and staff can develop and the business of the firm be discharged with increasing quality and efficiency . |
| 6 | The class spent considerable time examining these photographs , attempting to anticipate the kind of personalities they were to be working with . |
| 7 | It takes considerable time and ingenuity to find out who these informal players are , but once discerned , the model performs very well and can be relied upon to enrich , screen , and find sponsorship within the organization , for a good number of complex ideas . |
| 8 | In this project I have invested considerable time and not a little of my own money . |
| 9 | In this project I have invested considerable time and not a little of my own money . |
| 10 | Clearly , the regulated devote considerable time , effort , and money to lobbying and otherwise trying to influence the regulator . |
| 11 | But as they do need the financial background too , finding a suitable candidate to take on the finance director role , particularly of a large organisation , can be a problem and it 's not unknown for a company to invest considerable time and money in training someone specially for the job , though it is rare . |
| 12 | Besides sitting on the boards of prestigious companies ( Caterpillar , The New York Times Co , AT&T and Bristol-Myers ) he also contributes considerable time and energy to charitable organisations . |
| 13 | The Institute will be devoting considerable time and effort , in the coming months , to taking a leading role in the consultation process and preparing a coherent and comprehensive response to the important issues the APB has raised . |
| 14 | Michael has already spent considerable time in Barcelona , but despite those commitments the all important cross country course at Bramham Park is well on the way to completion thanks to the endeavours of George Podmore and his team . |
| 15 | ‘ We have spent considerable time , effort and money protecting and defending the Fender name and its trademarks , ’ adds the current Fender president Bill Schultz , ‘ not only for our benefit , but also for the benefit and protection of our dealers and thousands of consumers who purchase Fender products . |
| 16 | They have always spent considerable time visiting schools ; in the nineteenth century there were regular visits , including during the period of payment by results ( 1862–1898 ) when the outcome of an inspection , involving assessing the children 's performance , determined whether or not the school received funds . |
| 17 | Peter Evans , the first non-family chairman to be appointed to the liqueur company when he joined late last year , said yesterday that the company had spent considerable time evaluating its needs in the light of its decision to focus on its core business , the production of Drambuie Liqueur . |
| 18 | Because of his professed preference for isolation , it would take considerable time before Ewan was missed by other personnel on the base . |
| 19 | The appearance of such systems , often in advance of any Western equivalent , usually generates flurries of excitement , yet early versions tend to possess rudimentary capabilities , and effective variants may take considerable time to emerge as the component technologies are brought up to standard . |
| 20 | In practice , however , the elasticity of demand for imports and exports may not be of an appropriate value or else it may take considerable time before such automatic forces become effective . |
| 21 | In some cases , this can take considerable time . |
| 22 | As it can take considerable time to effect the transfer of overseas funds to the University account , you are strongly advised to make arrangements well in advance . |
| 23 | During those meetings it was emphasised by all participants that a great deal of work would need to be done in the translation of medical textbooks , and that this would take considerable time . |
| 24 | Not only can information which may take considerable time to locate but which needs to be as up-to-date as possible be handled by Prestel but the ability to communicate personal , one-off inquiries to the information providers is a great advantage . |
| 25 | She had always devoted considerable time to patient observation of her surroundings , her staff and humanity in general and , now , her assessment of women 's needs and desires precisely matched the throwback mood of the Seventies . |
| 26 | Very often it demands considerable time and careful exploration to help the patient decide precisely what his problems are . |
| 27 | It is worth spending considerable time in examining the causes of the 1450 rebellion , because they contrast markedly with those of the 1381 revolt . |
| 28 | A report by development services director Stephen Tapper says bus lanes produce considerable time savings by allowing public transport unrestricted access . |
| 29 | If you only feel comfortable writing out your verbal presentation then be prepared to devote considerable time to preparing to throw it away . |
| 30 | First , MPs had to be willing to devote considerable time and energy to the new committees . |