Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | To beguile some of the time in Malvern , they went to the cinema . |
| 2 | And , in the course of that hunt , I spent some of the time in … the place where Kokos comes from . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In fact MI5 was wasting its time because Khrushchev and Bulganin were well aware of this and spent much of the time in their suite holding nonsensical conversations that appeared to include tantalising references to important matters but were in reality pure rubbish . |
| 5 | His parents will be able to spend much of the time in the ward with him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Many graduates proceed to research posts in universities , often working much of the time in international laboratories , such as CERN in Geneva . |
| 8 | I 'm told that the television is on most of the time in my house — the police can detect it — and I want to say something to Liam , if he 's watching . ’ |
| 9 | Suppose , for example , you have a so-called extraverted personality , this means that for most of the time in most situations you will tend to think , feel and behave in outward going ways . |
| 10 | As the aircraft were left out ‘ dispersed ’ most of the time in English or in tropical rain these compartments soon became little damp boxes , often with a puddle at the bottom . |
| 11 | During infancy children tend to be kept most of the time in the small , dark interior of their hut , where they are rarely allowed to crawl on the floor , rarely spoken to or played with ( though always kept near the mother ) , and where few objects for play are available . |
| 12 | Oh there 's a char , there 's a lovely char here , these lovely chars er actually spend most of the time in big cold lakes and they 're a , they 're a population in they normally respond in December from about December the second to the fifteenth and they 've probably been isolated since fourteen thousand years ago , with that every population has gone slightly different to , to the next one . |
| 13 | At first he stayed up in his room most of the time in the evenings , reading and playing his harp . |
| 14 | We 'll spend most of the time in bed . ’ |
| 15 | Most of the time in negotiation is usually spent over the terms of the warranties . |
| 16 | However , they face substantial difficulties in their struggles against organized capital , domestically and transnationally ( see Rowan et al. , 1980 ) and they must be considered as marginal most of the time in the global system . |