Example sentences of "and [prep] most [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rained on and off most of the afternoon . |
| 2 | She mutinied on and off against him all that morning , and for most of the afternoon . |
| 3 | He was called to the bar in 1843 and for most of the rest of his life he practised as a conveyancer . |
| 4 | Buoyed by this , the 'Mere forwards rallied and for most of the remainder of the half they at least managed to hold their own ball in the scrum . |
| 5 | When operating at low speed the freewheeling time of the phase currents is short compared to the total excitation time and for most of the cycle the phase current is carried by the switching transistors . |
| 6 | I watched both them and Mathews closely throughout both days while he was giving evidence , and for most of the time all three of the judges had their heads and eyes down on the notes they were keeping . ’ |
| 7 | Fewer than eighty purveyors of museum supplies and services took booths , and for most of the time the vendors largely from Canada and the northeastern U.S. had the Hilton basement entirely to themselves . |
| 8 | They travelled all that day without a break , and for most of the time the sun beat down on them with fiery intensity . |
| 9 | Little enough daylight was left by the time Pedro came skulking back , and for most of the evening she had sat , talking to him , stroking the soft rug of his ear between tense fingers , and waiting for the fit to come again . |
| 10 | Yet the move has won the implacable opposition of many economists , of the Borrowing Advisory Committee ( which represents investors and meets Treasury officials each quarter ) and of most of the career civil servants at Treasury itself . |
| 11 | And throughout most of the animal , and indeed the plant world , incest is regularly and systematically avoided . |
| 12 | And with most with a lot of calculators I mean you Do n't try it unless you really know your calculator and know how it works , you can just keep pressing equals , |
| 13 | She was a person accustomed to getting seven hours of sleep , on a good night , and less most of the time . |
| 14 | The sea off Sussex is shallow ; only off the chalk cliffs and at Fairlight does the five-fathom line come nearer than one kilometre from the shore , and along most of the county it is three or more kilometres out from the shore . |
| 15 | It was observed : ‘ In most villages of the realm there is some one dresser or worker of leather , and in most of the market towns iij or iiij or v , and many great towns and cities x or xx , ’ and indeed , with cattle and timber its chief products , the Weald was a natural location , and local bark , of which colliers and ironmasters had plenty to spare , was much in demand by tanners . |
| 16 | I saw my school from the air and my village and across most of the countryside . |
| 17 | On 6 December , in my first speech for several years from the back benches of the House of Commons , I said : ‘ Our entry into the ERM was welcomed by both sides of the House and by most of the press , but it is now clear that the bands within which the pound is allowed to float are sustained only by damagingly high rates of interest in Britain . ’ |