Example sentences of "[noun sg] for much [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Æthelred 's henchmen were perhaps able to stifle or ignore discontent for much of the time , but even so it had its price . |
| 2 | If drainage is too efficient , however , little water may be present in the regolith for much of the time and rates of weathering will consequently be reduced . |
| 3 | A fine attacking batsman , he had been in the England team for much of the time since making his debut in 1982 , but after his four centuries in the summer of 1984 he had disappointed too often and his average scarcely reflected his ability — in 57 Tests he had made just over 3,000 runs at 34 before the tour began . |
| 4 | In fact copepods , notably Calanoides acutus , Calanus propinquus and Rhincalanus gigas , form the bulk of the zooplankton for much of the time ( Voronina , 1966 , 1968 ; Hopkins , 1971 ) . |
| 5 | Mandru had been away on business for much of the time since Lucien had arrived , so performances had been few . |
| 6 | THE social order of the European high Middle Ages was characterized by an immense number of local subsistence economies , with relatively little intercommunication for much of the time . |
| 7 | He explains : ‘ It may look like a poor run for a player of Neil 's calibre , but he 's been out with a hamstring problem for much of the time . |
| 8 | Marriner for much of the time manages to give the illusion in his clean , sympathetic approach that this is prime Tchaikovsky , and through there have been more rip-roaring accounts of the close , none has been better played . |