Example sentences of "[adv] much [prep] the time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er my memories really go back to er the , probably the more pleasant things in the erm mission parties that we were invited to , the film shows in the Officers ' Mess , er going to a Glenn Miller dance erm which was held in the hangar up here erm , I do n't think we really , or I really appreciated them so much at the time as I do now . |
| 2 | She kept wanting to cry , as she had with Stephen , as she had for so much of the time since Timothy Gedge had come into their lives . |
| 3 | Of course , in reality there is no united lesbian and gay community with a common set of needs and yet Switchboard attempts a near-unique balancing act of serving some of the needs of all of the people as much of the time as possible . |
| 4 | Rather it should be : ‘ How can I help myself to be as little ‘ like that ’ ’ as much of the time as possible ? ’ |
| 5 | Although each component is necessary to the final taste of the cake , to ask how much of the taste is contributed by the flour , how much by the eggs , how much by the time and temperature of baking makes no sense ; the mixing and baking have qualitatively transformed the components . |
| 6 | It does , but the stars , although they 're moving fast by terrestrial standards , are moving very slowly by comparison with the vast distances we 're talking about , and they do n't change their distances by very much in the time that we 're watching . |
| 7 | It would seem that erm i it was n't in the interests of one 's ultimate reproductive success to be too easily satisfied too much of the time because remember , it 's a question of relative reproductive success an and the individual that gets that little extra is is effectively gon na be , gon na be the one selected , so yes I would think that erm it 's probably naive to think that natural selection would , would make you feel er satisfied and content all the time it would probably induce erm a state of mild chronic discontent which is I think what most people actually experience in life |
| 8 | War , whether against domestic rebels or external threats , meant armed forces and armaments , and the financing of these prodigious costs meant that much of the time and energy of the Monarch 's developing bureaucracies were devoted to raising funds for this purpose , securing access to the surplus generated within society . |