Example sentences of "[not/n't] enough time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bands spend too much time chasing A&R personnel and other industry figures , and not enough time chasing punters , developing a following and creating a ‘ buzz ’ . |
| 2 | Barnes , who had no staff with him and not enough time , demurred . |
| 3 | It is not that she does not know what to say , it is that there is not enough time to say all she knows . |
| 4 | There were too many things to do and not enough time . |
| 5 | ‘ This is not enough time to pay for my daughter 's life , ’ she said . |
| 6 | Geoff Barnes of Casson Beckman believes that there would be fewer problems about audit fees if the audit was regarded as a more useful exercise both by members of the public and by business : ‘ As a profession we spend far too much time looking back and not enough time looking forward . ’ |
| 7 | In any case , there was not enough time left for me to go that way to look for him . |
| 8 | There is not enough time to meet even short-term demands for preparation , marking , report-writing , sorting out pupils ' disputes and clearing up heat-of-the-moment misunderstandings with colleagues , let alone to invest in the longer-term necessities of clearing the backlog of paperwork , replying to letters , ordering supplies , planning schemes of work , reorganizing last year 's course , thinking about what your tutor group can contribute to the fourth year assembly , setting up a meeting with the educational psychologist about Jessica , and spending some time with the word processor manual . |
| 9 | As Italy 's financial year closes at the end of the calendar year and money can not be held over from one year to the next , there is not enough time to distribute and use such funds as have been allocated . |
| 10 | As an avid reader of Hot Press and several other music mags , I recently decided that I was spending too much time reading about music and not enough time listening to the stuff . |
| 11 | They complained so much that not enough time had been allowed them for their discussions that we had them back a second week . |
| 12 | ‘ If the Governor set aside four hours every day for two months he could spend a minute on each decision package , not enough time to read it , let alone make an analysis of its merits ’ ( Anthony , 1977 , p. 19 ) . |
| 13 | There was n't much time left — certainly not enough time to be taking the wrong tack with old Cohen and antagonising him . |
| 14 | At this point the historic West Saxon kingdom of the eighth century could have been stillborn or at least confined to political insignificance beyond Selwood , but there was not enough time for Wulfhere to consolidate his position south of the Thames before a major crisis confronted him . |
| 15 | During Question Time today and this involves your position , Mr. Speaker the Secretary of State said that he could not deal adequately with the question on the Order Paper in the name of my Hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) because there was not enough time in a parliamentary answer . |
| 16 | In the hot big bang model described above , there was not enough time in the early universe for heat to have flowed from one region to another . |
| 17 | I continue to have graver concerns that four months is simply not enough time for any vendor other than G Tec to implement a turnkey online gaming system . |
| 18 | As a result Finance Ministers agreed in Luxembourg on Oct. 9 to prolong the existing system " for a limited period " , on the grounds that there was not enough time before January 1993 to introduce another , more effective one . |
| 19 | In July an Indian government report on the February crash of an Indian Airlines Airbus A320 in Bangalore in February 1990 [ see p. 37268 ] found that not enough time had been allowed to enable personal to adapt to changes in aircraft , equipment , maintenance , ground facilities and the training of engineers and pilots . |
| 20 | A quotation from one teacher serves to illustrate this attitude : ‘ Nowadays when education is under attack , and survival is the watchword , there is just not enough time or willpower for such peripheral activities . ’ |
| 21 | Often there was not enough time to share decision making with subordinates . |
| 22 | Fun day , more fun than today and today I hope I 've provided some of the ground work ca n't there 's a lot of things I would 've liked to have gone into more detail and generally I do but today there 's just there 's just not enough time in a day to do it . |
| 23 | ‘ Too much to see and not enough time . ’ |
| 24 | Not enough time to involve shop staff in the search . |
| 25 | He added that the demands imposed on teachers by the National Curriculum often meant there was not enough time for cycling lessons , but many of the town 's primary schools were involved . |
| 26 | He added that demands placed on teachers by the national curriculum often meant there was not enough time for cycling lessons , but many of the town 's primary schools were involved . |
| 27 | Dad oh you 're gon na have to wait , there 's not enough time to get bread out the freezer and |
| 28 | Dad that , they ca n't have toast cos there 's bread in the freezer and it 's , there 's not enough time to get it out and defrost it . |
| 29 | Good planning gives you thinking time , the chance to anticipate problems and find ways of avoiding those stresses and crises that arise because you have n't enough time to deal with the unexpected . |
| 30 | He had n't enough time to return to the dormitory to get help . |