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Example sentences for "much time"

  • Tokio certainly makes one very sleepy, and also demands the expenditure of much time to get a small result.

  • I find as I have to speak so slowly to be clear, that there isn't much time in an hour.

  • It is easy to speak in an interpreted address, because there is so much time to think between the paragraphs; but I am sure it has not the same effect on an audience as the direct address.

  • He has made a regular set at me," Halleck wrote, "and if I had not fooled away so much time already on law and on leather, I should like to fool away a little more on such a cause as this.

  • Much time I have wasted, and would fain save others from wasting, in trying to form a Melanesian mind into a given direction into which it ought, as I supposed, to have travelled, but which nevertheless it refused to follow.

  • So much time devoted to the planning of the children's room, may give the impression that the room is of more importance than the librarian.

  • American Library Association did not give much time to the subject till the Boston conference of 1879, when a whole session was devoted to schools, libraries, and fiction (L.

  • For even if juvenile books are classified on the shelves, much time is wasted in going through many indexes.

  • As all met in one place, much time would be spent on the journey.

  • That all the organic bodies of our globe are veritable productions of nature, which she has created in succession at the end of much time.

  • Mr. TRACY regretted that so much time should be lost on trifling subjects.

  • She's beyond any of the women I've wasted so much time on.

  • That's why I've wasted so much time on you.

  • I've wasted as much time as I can spare to-day to frivolity.

  • Do you suppose, if I could have found fifteen years ago the woman to have made me happy, I should have spent so much time in seeking distraction?

  • I guess you haven't much time to get into mischief.

  • The shortness of the intimation will not allow me much time to write to you so fully in my vindication for what I did that I know concerns you.

  • But they were mistaken; for instantly they were hang'd and had not so much time as to beg God to have mercy upon their souls.

  • But you spend so much time piling up learning!

  • Much time I have to practice it in our present plight!

  • I keep very busy, but I have not so much time as I had last summer.

  • The Motor Boys were so called because they spent so much time in or about vehicles that depended on gasoline motors for their activity.

  • The chums and their comrades spent much time in the different huts, where they were entertained and could get hot chocolate, candy or chewing gum--rations not then issued by the army commissary.

  • Besides, the cinders fall on the bread of meal, which causes much delay in the eating, because so much time is necessary in scraping them off, and even at the best, I often get more of ashes than is pleasant to the taste.

  • Coventry, and then come home, and Hewer read it to me while I take it in long-hand to present, which saves me much time.

  • Thence weary of losing so much time I to the office, and thence presently down to Deptford; but to see what a consternation there is upon the water by reason of this great press, that nothing is able to get a waterman to appear almost.

  • I haven’t much time, but I might take a turn some day.

  • Andrew and Jeanie, after a few years, retired to a snug farm within easy distance of The Chase, at which place, for one reason or other, they spent nearly as much time as at home.

  • But my friend Effingham and I are tied to time to get home, and as we’re going overland we haven’t much time to spare.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "much time" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    leaned over; much alarmed; much attention; much blood; much compressed; much delighted; much evil; much finer; much for; much from; much grown; much heat; much like; much longer; much nearer; much nicer; much opposed; much people; much rather; much right; much salt; much sorrow; much sought; much that; much wished; third century