Example sentences of "[verb] most [prep] the time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weather did not deter them ; it rained most of the time and they traversed ground that had little or no trace of thoroughfare . |
| 2 | This is his sixteenth over , two for seventeen with nine maidens so far , bowling from the far end , the nursery end with a cluster of fielders , you 've got a silly point and a short leg and a slip and he 's got er , at the moment four men on the leg side as he 's had most of the time and five on the off , and now a slight adjustment , we 're gon na have an extra one around the batsman . |
| 3 | ‘ But I do n't know where I 'm heading most of the time and there just was n't time to be together . |
| 4 | Just from racing so long I know what it 's going to do most of the time so I can adjust the pressure on the handlebars and know how hard I can drive it into the pavement . |
| 5 | Sub-contracting works fine most of the time but if you want something done urgently and the typesetter is broken or tied up on a job for its owner then guess who 's work is going to have to wait . |
| 6 | The dwarf maintains an assault on the trees for long periods and achieves little ( the equivalent of frequent , low-magnitude events ) ; the giant sleeps most of the time but occasionally wakes and causes great destruction ( a catastrophic event ) whereas the man works regular hours and systematically achieves the greatest effects ( events that occur once or twice each year ) . |