plenty of time
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1.2
- noun
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tiempo de sobra
- Oh, I have plenty of time to prepare myself.
- allow plenty of time
- give plenty of time
- still plenty of time
Oh, I have plenty of time to prepare myself.
- Oh, I have plenty of time to prepare myself.
- I want to leave plenty of time for questions and answers.
- OK, there's going to be plenty of time for that, lads.
- And well, a three day weekend would leave plenty of time for stuff like dating.
- And you're going to have plenty of time to party those first couple of weeks.
- So, yeah, well, let's, let's, I mean, there will be plenty of time for more questions.
- TikTok Don't worry, you have plenty of time.
- Oh oh oh there it is all is well yes for now plenty of time to screw that up later.
- And I would say make sure if you're going to study these that you allot yourself plenty of time to do so.
- But I would get plenty of time to look around and just appreciate the beauties of the landscape.
Examples
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We have plenty of time to finish the project before the deadline.
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And remember, the island is indeed big, and you should allow plenty of time for your visit.
Academic text (2004) -
So we have plenty of time for questions and comments.
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We have plenty of time.
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Excuse me, excuse me; there will be plenty of time for questions later.
Fiction book (1994) -
I want to leave plenty of time for questions and answers.
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But I'll hand out the prompt in November, so you will have plenty of time to work on it.
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July and Liberty had come home in plenty of time for dinner and homework.
Fiction book (1993) -
We've got plenty of time for questions and comments.
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There'll be plenty of time to figure all of that out.
Synonyms
19
2.8
A long time spent doing something
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositionally derived from 'plenty' (a large or adequate quantity) + 'time' (a span or amount of time), with 'of' as a grammatical linker. This straightforward noun phrase pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows normal English composition, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily understand it.
Etymology
The phrase plenty of time creates a simple picture: imagine a basket full of clocks, meaning you have a large supply of hours. If you have plenty of time, you have 'more than enough', so you do not need to hurry.