Example sentences of "most of the present " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Earl would no doubt be bringing his own personal troops with him , so Seton could take most of the present garrison down with him . |
| 2 | These changes had been occurring , at a varying pace , for most of the present century and affected individuals in a number of ways , As a result , people have looked to the radio to provide explanations , give advice and act as an arbiter of social morality . |
| 3 | In most of the present liberal-democratic countries it required many decades of agitation and organization , and in few countries was anything like it achieved until late in the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | that most of the present range of home-school links was already to be found in local primary schools well before PNP , and that activity in this field since 1985 has involved the further development and dissemination of existing practice rather than the devising of innovative techniques . |
| 5 | If the lunar curves in Figure 6.9 can roughly be applied to Mercury then crater erasure took place before about 4000 Ma ago , and most of the present craters , which may also have given rise to the smooth plains , were in place by about 3000 Ma ago , and little has happened on the Mercurian surface since except for the effects of tidal slow-down and interior shrinkage . |
| 6 | Most of the present problems of industrial societies are felt acutely in the United Kingdom , which make it an ideal starting point for comparative research and analysis . |
| 7 | At S. George , which was a small abbey founded in 840 , most of the present church dates from the ninth to tenth century with the ninth century crypt as the earliest part . |
| 8 | For example , the distribution of the labour force between agriculture and industry has always been regarded as an important indicator of economic growth , if not precisely development , because most of the present advanced industrial societies , in particular the United Kingdom and the United States , exhibited a marked tendency to reduce their agricultural labour force while increasing their industrial labour force . |
| 9 | The recent correspondence about traffic problems and congestion fails to address the basic cause of most of the present chaos , which is the lack of consultation and co-operation by those responsible for the development of industry , office space , housing and schools , and public transport during the last 45 years . |