Example sentences of "[prep] much [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For much of the time , he is the achiever who tries for a reasonable percentage return . |
| 2 | To most people , a receptionist is an obstacle to be negotiated , and that was unfortunately how I was made to feel for much of the time . |
| 3 | The other game was far more interesting with Speelman looking for much of the time as though he was spending a very unhappy 33rd birthday . |
| 4 | Surveying the solitary chair and bare mattress , the missing lightbulbs round the mirror , you understand why for much of the time Newley keeps his eyes closed , picturing maybe the backstage steamrooms and personal barmen of American showbiz . |
| 5 | Vivienne found Peters extremely boring , but the next day , Sunday , Peters and Eliot , who was looking very ill , went off to Greenwich , a choice of venue which suggests that the two men talked about sailing for much of the time . |
| 6 | For much of the time the only sounds were the chatter of birds and the humming of my bike 's knobbly tyres , but the wide panoramas changed constantly as the countryside unfolded around me . |
| 7 | A fine attacking batsman , he had been in the England team for much of the time since making his debut in 1982 , but after his four centuries in the summer of 1984 he had disappointed too often and his average scarcely reflected his ability — in 57 Tests he had made just over 3,000 runs at 34 before the tour began . |
| 8 | On the second of these , the captain , Leslie Ames , was injured for much of the time and Worrell was appointed his deputy . |
| 9 | These incidents are rare not only because national emergencies are mercifully infrequent , but because for much of the time there is an instinctive understanding between the governors of the broadcasting organization and the government of the nation , as the corporation 's behaviour on issues like appeasement demonstrates ; Reith succumbed to the same collective delusion that had seized Chamberlain , his foreign secretary , Halifax , and most of the population . |
| 10 | The contra leaders , sitting for much of the time in Miami in their well-cut lightweight suits and their gold watches , had purposes in view , some of them not especially noble ; the rebels in the field were mostly tired , variously motivated , and confused . |
| 11 | In between he was , for much of the time , all over the shop , scrambling pars more than hunting birdies . |
| 12 | Although he referred to her in letters to Zbo as ‘ his wife ’ and was concerned and excited about the baby , Modi was very much the Italian husband , leaving his woman alone while he visited the cafés , living inside of himself for much of the time , coming home drunk and moving restlessly from place to place . |
| 13 | It was built in 1490 and for much of the time it was owned by the Darrel family . |
| 14 | But for much of the time , without the right circumstances , they remained hungry , prophets without followings . |
| 15 | However , for much of the time , these violent commitments are relatively rare . |
| 16 | THE social order of the European high Middle Ages was characterized by an immense number of local subsistence economies , with relatively little intercommunication for much of the time . |
| 17 | Nonetheless , for much of the time and for many places , local particularism was a dominant motif . |
| 18 | We must presume that , for much of the time , he suspended judgement in order to support the main sweep of the Red Army . |
| 19 | For much of the time it took me through farmland , amidst the pleasant aroma of meadows , and often I found myself slowing the Ford to a crawl to better appreciate a stream or a valley I was passing . |
| 20 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 21 | That October , when the M's cattle were brought in , it meant that Mrs M had to spend up to five hours a day working with them as Mr M was away teaching for much of the time . |
| 22 | She was aware , though no-one spoke , that for much of the time Ernest and Charlotte were also awake . |
| 23 | We can do this because the private universe that we inhabit for much of the time is characterised by a philosophy of personal freedom and private choice . |
| 24 | For much of the time Lewis was away from his family making films . |
| 25 | ‘ I tried to do things too quickly and ended up feeling unwell for much of the time . |
| 26 | By the same token this raises the interesting possibility that , for much of the time at least , men view their knowledge as self-evident and many women may , in the absence of alternatives , come to interpret their own experiences in terms of the categories made available by male experts . |
| 27 | And for much of the time it follows the Minchmoor Road , an ancient drove road which was also used by Scottish monarchs staying at Traquair House . |
| 28 | For much of the time , perched on the end of its European promontory , Greece feels lonely and insecure . |
| 29 | Although we had been in the land of constant daylight for several days , the sun had been hidden for much of the time by high cloud . |
| 30 | Dahl for much of the time in Dresden , in the same house as the German Romantic painter Caspar David Griedrich , and both were dazzled and bewitched by the golden luminosity of Italy . |