Example sentences of "much [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Rikki Fulton also admitted he had not seen much of the first two series . |
2 | After devoting much of the first ten years of his presidency to slow development of the institutions of democracy , Mr Mubarak has spent the past two in regression . |
3 | I must confess I did nt see much of the first 60 mins ( football training ! ) . |
4 | The latter point was silly , coming from a man who has spent much of the last five years persuading his party that the world had changed since May 1979 and that there was no going back . |
5 | Most of the former National Guards were high-ranking figures from the Somoza regime who had been in prison for much of the last 10 years . |
6 | If for much of the last 50 years the Russians were almost invisible , and those whom we did see were either the brilliant defectors or carefully hand-picked stars , it is hardly surprising that the British public swallowed the myth . |
7 | Outline how the lunar cratering rate over much of the last 4600 Ma has been estimated . |
8 | She has spent much of the last ten years establishing herself and securing her home base , and it is only now that she is beginning to realize her potential . |
9 | The UK 's growth of total exports showed the slowest growth of any of 19 Industrial Market Economies for much of the last 25 years ( World Bank , 1989 ) ; however , through the mid 1980s the decline of the UK 's share of world trade was arrested at the level of about 8 per cent . |
10 | This must seem like bliss to those who were on the rack for much of the last three years . |
11 | He looked around the room where she had spent much of the last few years . |
12 | Jackie Aitchison , chairman of the consortium , has spent much of the last few weeks in talks with potential partners . |
13 | Much of the next two years was passed in efforts to avert just such a development , and in these efforts the clergy played a positive role . |
14 | This of course harks back to the much older debate about whether memories can be localized — something I 'll come back to later , ; much of the next two chapters will be taken up with the question of the localization of memory in space and time . |
15 | As a result the cost of living will rise , inflation will hover around the 4 per cent mark for much of the next two years , but it will not measure the much larger deflationary effects of the Budget as a whole on incomes and spending power . |
16 | In the autumn of 1342 Edward III himself did so , winning over parts of the duchy and leaving Englishmen in many of the castles and garrisons , including Brest , the port destined to remain in friendly hands for much of the next half century or so . |
17 | There he met Mohandas K. Gandhi , and spent much of the next 20 years acting as a conciliatory intermediary between Gandhi 's Congress Party and the British Government , latterly as a member of Gandhi 's entourage . |
18 | Meanwhile Chris Protheroe , who spent much of the next few months at the massive Boeing plant in Seattle , was trying to discover the origin of the fatigue fracture of the stabilizer rear spar top chord . |
19 | For example , at the peak of my running career in 1983 , I tore my plantar fasciitis and spent much of the next three years running at less than 100 per cent . |
20 | She carried him on her back for much of the next three years , until her back ached , and he was forced to fend more for himself . |
21 | Cos you get a lot of snow in Germany but we have n't had much in the last two years . |
22 | It 's more the ‘ bells and whistles ’ of museum life which have grown so much in the last fifteen years , like restaurants , shops , publishing , which should be left to the private sector , and which generate important revenues for the museum . |
23 | ICL , now 80% owned by Fujitsu Ltd , says margins on its hardware sales have shrunk as much in the last 18 months as in all the five years preceding , and it aims to drive revenues from its services business even higher as it focuses more on that market , through organic growth , joint ventures , marketing agreements and by acquisition . |
24 | It would be immoral for me to give up on my son ; I have been through so much in the last three years , ’ she said . |
25 | Cairns added : ‘ I 've learned so much in the last few weeks and coping with failure and disappointment is one of them . ’ |
26 | He had heard ( and drunk ) so much in the last few days that his mind was a haze of impressions and conjectures which refused to sort themselves out or lead in any one direction . |
27 | And the thing about it is such as erm well not only Tanys Dell that biggest part of school is here the population has decreased so much in the last ten years that we having now to close schools |
28 | Yet he was often in danger of winning the $55,000 ( £31,250 ) first prize until he found it just too much over the last few miles . |
29 | As you say , I wo n't be around much over the next few weeks anyway . ’ |