Example sentences of "[adv] for [adj] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was weeping bitterly for most of the time . |
| 2 | Bear in mind , however , that most of the work I was doing was word processing , which allows the hard disk to be powered down for most of the time . |
| 3 | The two older girls had already begun boarding school , so were away for most of the time , and Charles was only three and easily amused by the nanny . |
| 4 | This hill of water stays relatively still for most of the time , and is steadily heated by the Sun . |
| 5 | Also for most of the time at this period in their affair Boy was either slightly drugged , or drunk , or exhausted ; and he was in a permanent state of sexual tension , for either he had just come from O's bed or he was on his way to it . |
| 6 | They were both out for most of the time , and my mother was torn between relief that they were n't under her feet all the time and resentment that they were treating her house like an hotel . |
| 7 | Surveying the solitary chair and bare mattress , the missing lightbulbs round the mirror , you understand why for much of the time Newley keeps his eyes closed , picturing maybe the backstage steamrooms and personal barmen of American showbiz . |
| 8 | Bill says his four year marriage to Tonia — widow of speed king Donald Campbell — survives because living apart for most of the time adds zest to their love life . |