Example sentences of "much [prep] the time and " in BNC.

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1 On the second of these , the captain , Leslie Ames , was injured for much of the time and Worrell was appointed his deputy .
2 Nonetheless , for much of the time and for many places , local particularism was a dominant motif .
3 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 .
4 The interviewer is Peter Hayter , an owlish Friar Tuck figure who seems to be troubled by itching much of the time and who uses ‘ I mean ’ as frequently as commas .
5 If drainage is too efficient , however , little water may be present in the regolith for much of the time and rates of weathering will consequently be reduced .
6 Until 1939 internal dissension remained characteristic of the Labour Party , with agitations against Fascism and the National Government 's foreign policy occupying much of the time and energy of the active Party member .
7 Although each component is necessary to the final taste of the cake , to ask how much of the taste is contributed by the flour , how much by the eggs , how much by the time and temperature of baking makes no sense ; the mixing and baking have qualitatively transformed the components .
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