Take hardly any time to find girl (8)
I believe the answer is:
beatrice
'take hardly any' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'time to find girl' is the wordplay.
'time' becomes 'beat' (beat is a kind of time).
'to find girl' becomes 'rice' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'beat'+'rice'='BEATRICE'
(Other definitions for beatrice that I've seen before include "Dante's beloved, immortalised in ''Divine Comedy''" , "Shakespearean heroine" , "Dante's inspiration" , "Windsor princess, b. 1988" , "Dante's muse" .)