Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] of [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may even be abroad for some of that time . ’ |
| 2 | in psychology and chucked in electrical engineering and started a psychology course and he had to work at the same time as he studied for some of that time |
| 3 | Both parents were present and absent for some of this time . |
| 4 | For much of that time , local government acted as an arena through which wider political debates about the state were conducted . |
| 5 | Patrick had fallen off a ladder over a year and a half ago and had been off work for much of that time . |
| 6 | People have been studying the behavioural functions of the brain for something less than two centuries and , for much of that time , their efforts have been hampered by a combination of inevitable ignorance and adherence to implausible psychological theories . |
| 7 | The absence of new gilt issues for a period from 1988 to 1991 and the steeply inverted yield curve for much of that time meant that the eurosterling bond market developed strongly . |
| 8 | He had been in and out of the England team for ten years and had played 55 Tests , probably the best off-spinner in the world for much of this time . |
| 9 | For much of this time the country was in a continual state of war , with the Moors in the south and the Christians in the north constantly invading each others ' borders . |
| 10 | For much of this time Holroyd Smith was synonymous with Blackpool , the location of his achievement by installing one of the world 's first sustainable application of electricity to street transport . |
| 11 | There was no real communication between me and my father , who was also on holiday from school for much of this time . |
| 12 | Although Marseilles is known to have been shared between two kings for much of this time , details of the division are hard to establish . |
| 13 | Malcolm has served the church very faithfully during his term in office in spite of being under severe pressure of work during much of that time . |
| 14 | During much of that time she had been moving constantly , school friends , teachers and happy times discarded until she felt like a fugitive . |
| 15 | Furthermore , income tax was relatively low ; it did not rise above 4s 6d to 5s in the pound during much of this time , and middle-class incomes of £250 p.a. to £1,000 p.a. enjoyed the lowest percentage burden of both direct and indirect taxation combined . |
| 16 | But we must not forget the great flysch troughs which were developed in Alpine Europe through much of Cretaceous time and which in many cases continued on into the Tertiary . |
| 17 | However , such a probability may change against any of three time scales : |
| 18 | During all of that time my greatest ally and adviser in moulding the laws passing through the Parliament has been Nigel G M B's Director of Health , Safety and the Environment . |
| 19 | But she had lived inside the Dark Realm for many months , she had been forced to see the terrible creatures that hold sway there , and she had been at Medoc 's mercy for all of that time . |
| 20 | And in all of that time we had Gullfoss to ourselves . |
| 21 | Their only contact with any of their children in all of that time was a monthly visit with their eldest child , in a bare room , accompanied by a social worker who vetted the questions each asked the other . |
| 22 | In all of that time on the continent we did not encounter one set of road works , one traffic jam or one police car . |
| 23 | This serves to further illustrate the mentality of past ages and acts as a means of measuring our own cognitive processes in relationship to those of that time . |
| 24 | Whether they read a highbrow paper at each of four time points : the mid-term , the pre-campaign week , the first and second fortnights of the campaign . |
| 25 | The American ambassador sent his CIA station chief to ask Walters what he was really doing in Morocco at this of all time Walters insisted that his visit had nothing to do with the Shah . |
| 26 | For most of that time he took drugs . |
| 27 | The samples go back over 30 000 years , and they show that after being constant for most of that time the methane concentration began to increase in 1580 ( Geophysical Research Letters , vol 9. p 1221 ) At the end of the 16th century , the methane concentration began increasing at a rate of 0.114 ppmv per century ( parts per million by volume ) and around 1915 the rate accelerated to the present figure of 2.5 ppmv per century — if the data can be taken at face value . |
| 28 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 29 | In fact , they had known each other for only two years , and had been lovers for most of that time . |
| 30 | There has been a monastic community at Einsiedeln for more than a thousand years , for most of that time a Benedictine monastery . |