Example sentences of "[that] [adj] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She proved to be the Glisseuse , a rather shabby forty foot motor cruiser , difficult to see on Venturous ' radar , so that much of the time she had to be kept at visual distance , especially as she approached the busy traffic lanes of the Thames . |
| 2 | I suppose I look very confident ; I know that most of the time , that 's how I want to look . |
| 3 | With prize money declining , he laments that most of the time jump jockeys risk their necks for £150 . |
| 4 | Whatever it was , it was like a wall between them and he was honest enough to admit to himself that most of the time he was building on it brick by brick in order to blot her out of his sight … forever . |
| 5 | At first she had complained to Aggie , saying they were stupid because they taught nothing but the abc and counting , and that most of the time was spent singing hymns and listening to stories from the Bible . |
| 6 | The most detailed of these came from Wilshere , who said that most of the time had been taken up by the medical evidence — summarised with a wealth of detail ( which will not be repeated here ) . |
| 7 | It did n't help that most of the time I was pissed out of my brain . |
| 8 | I 've said that most of the time we do n't know what our own beliefs are , because we do n't believe we have them . |
| 9 | Her voice was soft and sort of lazy sounding , the kind of voice that most of the time you are n't sure if the person is kidding or being serious . |
| 10 | But they 're frustrated that most of the time , they 're forced to rely on a helping hand . |
| 11 | But they 're frustrated that most of the time , they 're forced to rely on a helping hand . |
| 12 | But they 're frustrated that most of the time , they 're forced to rely on a helping hand . |
| 13 | And the problem is that most of the time you know what you want to say , but does it correspond to what people want to hear , or read , or listen to ? |