Example sentences of "much [prep] the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm d do you remember much about the time after the first world war ? |
| 2 | Much of the time of the Director-General and senior staff was spent in budgeting and cost control and , in order to achieve further savings , eight redundancies were declared at the end of the year . |
| 3 | They have occupied much of the time of the higher courts but are on the margins of land law , which traditionally focuses on the market-place and the importance of documentation as the root of title . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His mother insists that John spent much of the time at the house of his aunt Kay ( wife of Grace 's brother Errol , then a prisoner-of-war ) , or in the company of her children , who came to use the swimming pool attached to the flats where Herbert and John lived , so that John was never left to the care of black servants . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They do not need to do so — for much of the time at least — simply because things work that way in any case ’ . |
| 8 | He suffers much of the time with sore feet ( furunculosis ) which unfortunately makes him lame . |
| 9 | Evan spends much of the time with his eyes clamped shut , rocking gently and scraping notes out of his sore , croaking throat . |
| 10 | From Ajaccio they travelled by bus to Porto Vecchio , Minton sleeping much of the time with his mouth open and head lolling against Ross 's shoulder . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Much of the time on the screen he wanders around helplessly in a freshly starched little Dior number looking for a line worth saying . |
| 13 | I was dancing much of the time on the wedding day . |
| 14 | Sales are somewhere in between since although there is a structured sales department , individual salesmen operate much of the time on their own . |
| 15 | The fears of the British textile industry preoccupied British officials for much of the time between 1948 and 1950 . |
| 16 | Much of the time between Gould 's arrival in Adelaide and the departure of Sturt 's expedition was spent with Sturt and his family , or Governor Gawler , whose wife was a friend of Lear 's , and in exploring the countryside around the city . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Its growth rate has been outstripped for much of the time by that of France and even , in some recent years , by that of the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | His parents will be able to spend much of the time in the ward with him . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Many graduates proceed to research posts in universities , often working much of the time in international laboratories , such as CERN in Geneva . |