Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only three of the whole group had worked since redundancy , and only one of those did so for more than half of the time between redundancy and interview . |
| 2 | There were just three scaldini in each compartment , so most of the time we had to take turns . |
| 3 | Although most of the time the energy not carried by the electron was taken away by an everyday massless neutrino , sometimes it was carried by a neutrino that weighed a comparatively large 17 keV . |
| 4 | Given Duchamp 's long residence in America , and his contacts with and influence on American art , I can see why he might be included , although most of the time he was a presence on the scene here he was n't working publicly . |
| 5 | The brain is so good at filling in , that although most of the time the bulk of our image is blurred and lacks detail and colour , we do not realise it . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're built to cope with the largest demand , although most of the time that demand is simply not required . |
| 7 | It was something I felt driven to do — even if most of the time I felt that I was just faking it . |
| 8 | Because some of the time the candidate has to be some of the other things as well . |
| 9 | Any way that you can think of that will help to get these axes right because most of the time it 's going to be this sort of thing I mean you said , Do you want me to work it you know use the graph or just work it out from this . |
| 10 | ‘ But you would n't know that , because most of the time you were n't even there . |
| 11 | They should all have them from a similar area because most of the time they say oh well they live so far away |
| 12 | Far from it , for even after the influx into parliament of the " hard-faced men " of 1918 the Law government of 1922 included as many old-established peers as any of the time . |
| 13 | Planners there began to ask why it was that their residential streets were so dull and so unsafe , and why it was impossible to do anything else there except drive cars , even though most of the time there were no moving cars . |
| 14 | In reality , of course , this is the kind of thing most managers find themselves dealing with for most of the time , especially those in relatively junior positions within large organizations . |
| 15 | Even where parents no longer live together they each continue to be responsible for their children and will need to decide who the children should live with for most of the time and how often the other parent should see the children . |
| 16 | " Im say that er , you know sound it a sort t'ing for big people cause when me get stab up whe me go say , me mudder go star% argue wiv me , because when most of the time when you go sound you know trouble an " all that does arise . |
| 17 | As most of the time taken is used up in searching through the various models the speed of the system will be a trade-off between the range of speakers it can understand and the number of words in the vocabulary . |