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find the time

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find the time (to do something)
to have a suitable period available to do something that you want to do. He finds time to paint in the mornings before he comes to work. I wonder how she finds the time to work and write.
Usage notes: often used to mean there is not enough time to do what you want to do: Finding the time to exercise is never easy.See my note above under "find time (to do sth)"--SL, 9/02
See also: find, time


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I wonder how you find the time to know all about pictures as well as books?
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context
I wonder how I find the time for all I do; but when I think that I have only got a year in Europe, I feel as if I wouldn't sacrifice a single hour.
A Bundle of Letters by James, Henry View in context
He would go himself, he assured her, as soon as he could find the time, and at last Meriem consented to abide by his wishes; but it was months before she ceased to mourn almost hourly for her Korak.
The Son Of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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