busy schedule

collocation in English

meaningsofbusyandschedule

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busy
adjective
uk
/ˈbɪz.i/us
/ˈbɪz.i/
If you are busy, you are working hard, or giving your attention to a ...
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schedule
noun[C]
uk
/ˈʃedʒ.uːl/us
/ˈskedʒ.uːl/
a list of planned activities or things to be done showing the times or dates when they are intended to happen or ...
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(Definition ofbusyandschedulefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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One participant stated that they already had abusyscheduleof activities in the summer.
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How did you find time to develop these hobbies with yourbusyschedule?
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The muqaddam keeps abusyschedule.
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Frithjof maintained abusyschedule.
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I am therefore delighted that he has found time in hisbusyscheduleto reply to this debate.
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He hoped to fit them in, as he could, in hisbusyschedule.
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Despite hisbusyscheduleduring that visit, will he consider meeting the asbestos roof claimants, even for half an hour?
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In view of hisbusyschedule, we are extremely grateful for the interest which he has shown.
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Herbusyschedulehas been badly skewed by the timing of today's debate.
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Let me put my concern on the record, in the hope that he will find time in hisbusyscheduleto reflect on it.
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Despite hisbusyschedule, he came to speak to us and showed that he has a grasp of the issues.
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I should be delighted to welcome him if hisbusyschedulepermits him to make such a visit at some stage.
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In the same spirit, we will carry on ourbusyscheduleof political contacts and technical exchanges.
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There is no use in his saying that he was badly advised, or that the cause was hisbusyschedule.
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I know that he has abusyschedule.
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It would be even better if he were to find time in hisbusyscheduleto visit the village himself in the new year.
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I have a ratherbusyschedule.
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She is now obsessed with her work, worries about her wedding and herbusyschedule.
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Thisbusyscheduleleft him with relatively little free time.
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Because of hisbusyschedule, he ate candy bars and drank coffee in place of meals, and suffered from exhaustion and malnutrition.
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