Example sentences of "[adv] much [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | money for light and they 've been having to keep her pension and like giving her so much at a time because it 's been going missing with all the money ! |
2 | She told him about the notes , the broken glass and spilled wine that had shaken her so much at the time . |
3 | And er my memories really go back to er the , probably the more pleasant things in the erm mission parties that we were invited to , the film shows in the Officers ' Mess , er going to a Glenn Miller dance erm which was held in the hangar up here erm , I do n't think we really , or I really appreciated them so much at the time as I do now . |
4 | ‘ Seeing as you 're on your own for so much of the time . ’ |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | He had changed so much in the time they 'd spent together . |
8 | recycled them so much by the time we get back to school they 've had it ! |
9 | ‘ Bed-fast much of the time now . |
10 | This was obviously not a state of affairs which could continue indefinitely and , although I knew as much at the time , I could n't will myself into sleep . |
11 | Human-rights groups said as much at the time , but General Benny Murdani , then head of the armed forces , claimed that the killings were the result of gang feuds . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Rather it should be : ‘ How can I help myself to be as little ‘ like that ’ ’ as much of the time as possible ? ’ |
14 | I was shattered pretty much of the time , my sleep was interrupted and I forgot about everything else . |
15 | It does , but the stars , although they 're moving fast by terrestrial standards , are moving very slowly by comparison with the vast distances we 're talking about , and they do n't change their distances by very much in the time that we 're watching . |
16 | So the normal man in the street wo n't see a great deal until very much nearer the time when it opens next spring . |
17 | A blustery wind made control very difficult and for too much of the time the ball was high in the air . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 |
20 | We 're there for the Na-Nazi riots — but for too much of the time we 're not . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
24 | I only give them half that much at a time . |