Example sentences of "most [prep] the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thoughts of finding a job are out , unless on a flexible part-time basis , and most of the time between races is spent testing , hanging around garages and seeking out potential sponsors . |
| 2 | For most of the time since 1986 , many parent companies would have done better putting their money safely in a bank deposit than risking it in the securities markets . |
| 3 | Although it can not be entirely free of period distortions , it shows more modest fluctuations in fertility than the TFR and in particular gives an estimate of fertility of over 2 children for most of the time since 1972 , not the 1.8 or so given by the IFR . |
| 4 | For most of the time since 1965 it has been contained in a separate channel isolated from the rest of criminal justice policy-making . |
| 5 | A mother in her early twenties in Coventry , who has been unemployed for most of the time since leaving school , said : |
| 6 | Unlike the UK , the Netherlands has for most of the time since 1950 pursued a consistent policy of reducing and limiting the prison population ; overall it is difficult to argue that this reduction in punishment has adversely affected the Netherlands ' crime rate , which has risen in a roughly similar manner to that in the UK over this period ( Downes , 1999 : 33–41 , 194–5 ; NACRO , 1991a : 93 ) . |
| 7 | dribble urine most of the time without realising it ; |
| 8 | Given the common Caribbean background of family members it is noteworthy that Creole is not used as a common medium of interaction either within or between generations , at least when British-born speakers are present ; however , some speakers may use a mesolectal Creole most of the time without it apparently having or acquiring any special symbolic value . |
| 9 | It does not do so ; standing orders recognise this position of dominance and provide for the devotion of most of the time of the House of government business , including Bills . |
| 10 | But Cadle cares for English basketball enough to have stayed here for 10 years — most of the time on a budget even Norman Lamont could manage . |
| 11 | He spent most of the time on the phone with his bookie . |
| 12 | We spent most of the time on the planet acid : the best place for us to be . |
| 13 | We spent most of the time on the Thames and Medway keeping observations on shipping . |
| 14 | Once arrived , the guests found themselves , for most of the time at least , caught up in a ritual of entertainment which was so smoothly organized as to be unnoticeable and , given the Empress 's indefatigable energy , so tiring as to eliminate any possibility of boredom . |
| 15 | Also for most of the time at this period in their affair Boy was either slightly drugged , or drunk , or exhausted ; and he was in a permanent state of sexual tension , for either he had just come from O's bed or he was on his way to it . |
| 16 | He lived for most of the time at his family seat at Laxton Hall , Northamptonshire , with his wife and only daughter , and frequented St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in London . |
| 17 | He had spent a while in the toilet , most of the time with his ear to the stethoscope-like instrument he 'd pressed against the closed door . |
| 18 | And I did have a splendid evening , spending most of the time with a red haired sergeant who seemed to appreciate my sense of humour — in fact , I thought we were getting on so well that I was disappointed when the evening ended and he did n't make any arrangements to see me again . |
| 19 | Most of the time with this car it simply is n't important : in town and at up to 50mph , performance is sufficient , not least because it is so responsive , so effortless . |
| 20 | We were n't , I now realise by doing the sums , badly off My father paid the rent , all the bills , gave us our pocket money , and a fixed sum of f7 a week housekeeping money quite a lot in the late 1950s — went on being handed over every Friday until his death , even when estrangement was obvious , and he was living most of the time with someone else . |
| 21 | As well as the horror stories of the tsarist penal system and the Stalinist GULag , there are also examples of those exiles who managed to lead a relatively comfortable , if spartan , existence , taking regular exercise , hunting for sport , reading , writing and corresponding fairly freely with fellow exiles , enjoying connubial pleasures and composing theoretical treatises — one thinks particularly of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov/Lenin who spent three reasonably fruitful and unexacting years , most of the time with his wife , Nadezhda Krupskaya , living as a political exile in the home of a rich peasant in the village of Shushenskoe in southern Siberia ( 1897–1900 ) . |
| 22 | Roles works most of the time with one of his two Hasselblads , which he finds a good compromise between quality and portability ; these and a range of lenses comprise his field equipment . |
| 23 | I had a vague impression of their father but he had spent most of the time with his head in his hands . |
| 24 | Jacqui was likely to stay in most of the time with her portable television ; her pregnancy made her quite content to do so . |
| 25 | ‘ I never think about Kev 's age and most of the time with his vast experience he 's one step ahead of the strikers we face . |
| 26 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 27 | Lady Hamilton ( 1941 , That Hamilton Woman in US ) , which Korda made in America with Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier , works most of the time as a love story , but the messages that constantly obtrude about men whose ‘ insane ambition ’ makes them want to destroy what others had built are not organic to the main narrative . |
| 28 | In fact one of the great things about this walk is that it keeps for most of the time to the shoulder of the fells so that they fall away steep sided below you giving you clear views out and down . |
| 29 | These are the unthinking reactions we all have most of the time to various common facts . |
| 30 | Most of the time during the day she was all right . |