Example sentences of "[adj] proportion of [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The striking feature of the activities at which children worked for a high proportion of the time was involvement with other people ; conversely , most of the activities at which children worked for the lowest proportion of time writing , reading , drawing/painting — involved no other people and could have been carried out most effectively in isolation . |
| 2 | This part of the meeting can take a large proportion of the time available . |
| 3 | At university there were fewer lectures and a large proportion of the time was supposed to be spent working on her own . |
| 4 | The situation will only improve if first , recipient governments are able to allocate a higher proportion of the time of capable civil servants to the allocation of in-coming aid ; second , if donor governments and agencies dovetail their country lending programmes more closely with the medium-term budgetary plans of the recipient countries ; and third , if recipient governments are more careful in interpreting the priorities of their own small farmers and other small-scale producers . |
| 5 | A classical model was produced by Penck and Bruckner in 1909 and this involved four main glaciations although it has subsequently been appreciated that the sediments on which this four-fold sequence was based represented only a small proportion of the time span , and unconformities between each successive terrace probably conceal events lost to the record regionally or locally ( Bowen , 1978 ) . |
| 6 | So at that time , the midwife would only come for a a quite a small proportion of the time then ? |
| 7 | Even in the situations where it is appropriate , Creole will only be used some of the time — in fact , a very small proportion of the time , if my informants and their families are typical . |