Example sentences of "much [prep] the time [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Mandru had been away on business for much of the time since Lucien had arrived , so performances had been few . |
| 3 | On the second of these , the captain , Leslie Ames , was injured for much of the time and Worrell was appointed his deputy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Until 1939 internal dissension remained characteristic of the Labour Party , with agitations against Fascism and the National Government 's foreign policy occupying much of the time and energy of the active Party member . |
| 7 | 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 . |