Example sentences of "little time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joanne 's commitment to the next 12 months will leave her little time for the hobbies that she enjoyed before tennis came along . |
| 2 | It gave him little time to think of his own problems . |
| 3 | He felt it would leave him little time for his writing for one thing . |
| 4 | In the little time that remained , plans for Germany were made , and no doubt farewell visits took the three friends by now-familiar routes to the beach at Kilve , to Holford Combe and Hodder 's Combe , and far into the hills . |
| 5 | After tea — more washing up with Dad at the helm and little time was left before the whole family were off to Evensong at St. Martin 's where my father was a sidesman for a number of years . |
| 6 | These 42ft vehicles were sleeping saloons and , after they had been running some little time , some ordinary coaches 34ft in length , carried on six wheels , were built ; these had a total wheel base of 22ft , or 11 ft between centres . |
| 7 | Giving her little time to question this version of the truth , he swings the car off the main road all concrete and glass buildings and turns down a tiny side street . |
| 8 | Some are slow , sedate affairs where the player must hesitate and ponder after every move , while others see you hurtling along with little time to catch your breath — let alone scratch your head ! |
| 9 | It 's irritatingly easy to crash at first , as the pushscroll is only activated when you 're more than halfway across the screen , giving you little time to see and avoid hazards . |
| 10 | There is in short , a long agenda for action , and little time to spare . |
| 11 | This took some little time to effect , with no sign of the cattle-lifters evident . |
| 12 | That would leave him little time to blend in with his new team-mates before they take on Luxembourg 's Spora in the opening round of the UEFA Cup . |
| 13 | If I were you , sir , I 'd keep clear of Washington for some little time , by which I mean the rest of your life . ’ |
| 14 | Once in , the queue is moved on briskly , giving the visitors little time to tell their Vermeers from their Rubenses . |
| 15 | One difficulty lay in the endless commissions he received , usually for illustrative work within an established vein and which left him little time to experiment . |
| 16 | She was n't having things all her own way , now or for some little time to come . |
| 17 | With such little time for repetition and association , there is a very rapid loss of recall and a decay of memory . |
| 18 | Even in the little time she had had since yesterday ( and she had sent out at once for gossip papers . |
| 19 | ‘ Come now , boy , we have much to talk of and little time . ’ |
| 20 | Panic will not be too far away if having collected all your information you have only a little time to write the speech . |
| 21 | I entreat you both That , being of so young days brought up with him And sith so neighboured to his youth and haviour That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court Some little time , so by your companies To draw him on to pleasures , and to gather So much as from occasion you may glean , Whether aught to us unknown afflicts him thus , That opened lies within our remedy . |
| 22 | Prominent amongst these were a rapid turnover of police and strikers , leaving them little time for situational adjustment , and a corresponding lack of discipline , organisation and effective command structure on both sides . |
| 23 | The fact of his eldest son 's having been knighted within a month of Noell 's death from the plague ( on 29 September 1665 at his home in the parish of St Olave Jewry , London ) suggests continuing royal favour , although his executors did not escape unwelcome attention from royal revenue officials , notably in connection with allegations of his having profited improperly from the gains of privateering — England and Spain remaining technically at war until some little time after the Restoration . |
| 24 | But they had been chosen for some little time already . |
| 25 | The work was leaving her little time for herself and so she decided to simplify the task . |
| 26 | Emily Davies was one of the few to argue that housekeeping took up little time and that women could in fact combine work and marriage , and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson belonged to an even more select band who put this advice into practice . |
| 27 | This gave them little time to develop influence where it mattered , but also meant that the Supreme Soviet had a body of deputies holding important jobs who were in a position to be influential ( Lane , 1985 , pp. 177–81 ) . |
| 28 | She was still mad at Lucy for something , and Lucy was sure that a little time and concentration would tell her what … but for the moment , somehow , the knowledge was just out of reach . |
| 29 | However little time I spend at the front they do n't come in and get on with something , they come in and wait for me . |
| 30 | With the exception of Blitzer and Block Breaker , both of which I can do without , this is a decent little time wasting package . |