Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adj] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt well enough some of the time , but whenever he came under mental or physical strain , he contracted a cough and a high temperature . |
| 2 | Just as it was difficult to be alone so much of the time with such an attractive young woman , despite the size of the ship and our separate cabins . |
| 3 | Reptiles differ from amphibians in that , because of the development of the amniote egg , they are able to breed on land as well as live there most of the time . |
| 4 | Just as the grammarian 's ‘ data ’ can not contain any variable phenomena , so the grammar must have categorial rules , and not ‘ rules ’ which are true only some of the time . |
| 5 | People thought he was doing this deliberately , because people never really believe that the beautiful lack confidence ; looking back , I think that to start with Boy must have been frightened almost all of the time . |
| 6 | 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 |