Example sentences of "[adv] much of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Seeing as you 're on your own for so much of the time . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Bed-fast much of the time now . |
| 5 | Of course , in reality there is no united lesbian and gay community with a common set of needs and yet Switchboard attempts a near-unique balancing act of serving some of the needs of all of the people as much of the time as possible . |
| 6 | Rather it should be : ‘ How can I help myself to be as little ‘ like that ’ ’ as much of the time as possible ? ’ |
| 7 | I was shattered pretty much of the time , my sleep was interrupted and I forgot about everything else . |
| 8 | A blustery wind made control very difficult and for too much of the time the ball was high in the air . |
| 9 | Meanwhile Bleek 's relationships involve a large number of bedroom scenes which for too much of the time seem to present the women as carnal accessories passively accepting his attentions . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | We 're there for the Na-Nazi riots — but for too much of the time we 're not . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Since he had no typist or secretary in the country , this meant that much of the time which he wished to devote to his own work had to be spent on business correspondence . |
| 14 | ‘ I think it is true that much of the time we spent together we were going over our lines early in the morning in the make-up room . ’ |