Example sentences of "[noun sg] most of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , Jim Smith , ex-manager of Birmingham City Football Club , believes that black players make only limited use of intellectual abilities when playing soccer : ‘ They seem to use very little intelligence ; they get by on sheer natural talent most of the time . ’ |
| 2 | Alix spent three months working as an au pair girl — working very hard , for no pay — in a suburb of Paris , bored out of her mind most of the time , but strangely , surprisingly consoled by the youngest member of the large family , a baby , which , unlike its larger siblings , seemed to like her . |
| 3 | He explained that Anne needed support too and that if he wanted to stay at home most of the time , then he must consider her welfare and go to the centre sometimes as well . |
| 4 | His father , being a geologist , was away from home most of the time , so that Hank could , to a degree , . |
| 5 | There would be every justification for her to stay at home most of the time and only emerge on joint engagements with her husband . |
| 6 | In my day girls stayed at home most of the time . |
| 7 | His wife , Aunt Ann , was kept heavy with child most of the time , but she lost most of them and they only had the four . |
| 8 | That 's accepted as a fair exchange most of the time . |
| 9 | I ca n't bear to look at myself in a mirror : I know I look a mess most of the time . |
| 10 | Then she could actually see what was going on in the family , which was that her mother was servicing her father , who just looked out of the window most of the time , psychically speaking , while the siblings got on with their rivalry . |
| 11 | ‘ When I was 12 I won the one length freestyle , backstroke and breaststroke events at the local schools gala , but after that I concentrated on the backstroke most of the time . ’ |
| 12 | He thought she was rather a strange girl ; more like a boy most of the time , but there were parts about her he really liked . |
| 13 | In fact she did n't demand anything , apart from a dressing-room on the ground floor because she was having great difficulty with her back at the time , and being in pain , was using a wheelchair most of the time . |
| 14 | it means that er they 're in a wheelchair most of the time , but they 're , for the , for the activity they 're , they 're standing |
| 15 | I am self employed and rely heavily on the telephone , I think BT and their engineers do a marvellous job most of the time . |
| 16 | Industrial society has managed to bake bigger and richer cakes for most of the past two centuries , suffering the occasional bouts of indigestion , but getting fatter most of the time . |
| 17 | And as I 'm in the shop most of the time and know what goes and what does n't , I think you should stick by what I say or get somebody else in who 'll do it better . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Duw , girl , what do you expect me to do when you 're in the shop most of the time ? |
| 19 | One of my cats , unassuming and docile by nature most of the time , turns into a wild tiger if I have to hold her still to give her medicine . |
| 20 | " Well , we were on the move most of the time . " |
| 21 | The base which observes a low profile most of the time , was in the news when the Queen visited in 1978 , it also was central to the Gulf War effort with the stores working overtime to meet demand . |
| 22 | We sang ( in canon most of the time ) learnt new dances and a little German , we wined and dined and held a most memorable party on the Friday evening . |
| 23 | One problem of the past year has been the length of time it has taken me to accept that I need to work in the bookshop most of the time even though I know this work has to be done and though I enjoy it ( most of the time ) . |
| 24 | Gorillas , dolphins and whales certainly have a reputation for being peace-loving and harmless to humans but , on the other hand , tigers and polar bears are both well known as potential man-eaters , while elephants can hardly be described as innocuous , even if they prefer to mind their own business most of the time . |
| 25 | Weakness kept him confined to his room most of the time and an overwhelming sense of guilt , remorse and failure prevented him from doing anything about writing to Liza . |
| 26 | At first he stayed up in his room most of the time in the evenings , reading and playing his harp . |
| 27 | He stayed in his room most of the time , and drank more than before . |
| 28 | yes , that 's the money supply and measures , the measures of money supply I 'm sure you 'll be okay you should beat what I got anyway , cos I saw it sort of cold I could see you were put into shits of boredom , they go totally over the top most of the time my parents |
| 29 | dribble urine most of the time without realising it ; |
| 30 | Little Gabriels , out of control most of the time and impossible to educate , but with a fund of kindness that led them to rescue and foster wounded animals and plague her with them in the home . |