Example sentences of "for most [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most of the 1975–76 civil war , the massive stone keep of the twelfth-century Castle of St Gilles that still towers over Tripoli was occupied by a Sunni Muslim militia that made its head-quarters in the crusader banqueting hall . |
| 2 | It was not held at this level ; for most of the 1390s it was 8d. and dropped to 6d. again only in 1398 . |
| 3 | Their ratio of debts to total assets had fallen below 30% , having ranged between 40% and 50% for most of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 4 | For most of the 1970s while living in the Borders I was commuting to London by air for three nights a week to present late-night current affairs programmes — 24 Hours , Midweek , Tonight , Newsday . |
| 5 | GROSVENOR had to settle for a point from a Section II encounter with Mid Antrim despite dominating for most of the 70 minutes . |
| 6 | Similarly , the explosion in the population of sentenced prisoners , which was an ongoing phenomenon for most of the 1990s , appears to be largely attributable to the persistent practice of ‘ over-sentencing ’ — both in the sense of using custody unnecessarily for minor property offenders and others , and of imposing longer sentences across the board than is required for strictly reductivist purposes — for which responsibility rests mainly , but not exclusively , with the Crown Court . |
| 7 | For most of the 1780s it numbered , apart from the secretary of state himself , merely an under-secretary and less than a dozen clerks . |
| 8 | For most of the two centuries since that phenomenon began the conventional explanation has been that it was the new technology ( the spinning-jenny , the new weaving frames , and the steam engine ) which gave rise to the factory . |
| 9 | For most of the two centuries after Tomislav 's accession in AD 900 , the effective authority of Croatia lay in the coastal region north of Šibenik . |
| 10 | For most of the two world wars , though , the Meet was just kept ticking over and from 1940 to 1947 Alderman Billy Robinson was both Mayor of Richmond and President of the Meet . |
| 11 | Butcher 's union had about 300 members for most of the 1880s ; under his successors , Beresford and Friend , membership fluctuated from about 70 to 200 . |
| 12 | The western end of the line held firm for most of the three centuries of the frontier zone 's history , although there were frequent Turkish raids into Carinthia , Carniola , Styria and Croatia . |
| 13 | For most of the Eighties , Punjab has been wracked by vicious conflict between the security forces and half a dozen incoherent but well-armed groups ostensibly fighting for a free Sikh state of Khalistan , the Land of the Pure . |
| 14 | For most of the Eighties , Punjab has been wracked by vicious conflict between the security forces and half a dozen incoherent but well-armed groups ostensibly fighting for a free Sikh state of Khalistan , the Land of the Pure . |
| 15 | For most of the eighties this post was held by Robin Catford — of whom more later — who had the privilege of having the tenancy of the best room in Number 10 . |
| 16 | For most of the 1940s the core difficulty from the British point of view was the dollar shortage , which was the key to the reserve position . |
| 17 | They bid fiercely for business for most of the 1980s , until a collapsing Tokyo stockmarket brought their come-downance . |
| 18 | After barely moving for most of the 1980s , monthly rents on prime commercial properties in western Berlin suddenly leapt from DM28 at the end of 1989 to DM65 a year later , bubbling up on hopes — now dashed — that the Bundesbank would move to the city , and on speculation that it will eventually become Germany 's seat of government . |
| 19 | FROM cop to robber to cop again : Iran is once more urging its protective services , through some kind of joint security system , on the smaller neighbours whom , for most of the 1980s , it was threatening to gobble up . |
| 20 | If there is any silver lining to their dark cloud , it is the dubious one that the super-regional banks — for most of the 1980s the successes of American banking — also are on their way down ( or , like Bank of New England , out ) . |
| 21 | Since royalties are usually subject to withholding taxes , and payments to related parties in tax havens are generally suspect , the normal structure for most of the 1980s was to use a Dutch company which would hold a head licence from a Netherlands Antilles company holding the intangible , and which would then sublicense the operating companies . |
| 22 | The West European market for computer products and services will grow by about 4.3% in 1993 and 6.8% in 1994 , according to Bruno Lamborghini , president of the Eurobit industry group , which presented the study to a conference in Brussels : market growth was 14.2% in 1989 and 8.9% in 1990 , slowing to 4.3% in 1991 and just 3% last year , having topped 15% for most of the 1980s . |
| 23 | The governments ' answer , it seems , is to go back to the ERM as it worked for most of the 1980s — a more flexible ERM , in which exchange-rate realignments happened now and then , instead of being resisted at all costs . |
| 24 | Margaux set the pace for most of the 1980s . |
| 25 | In addition , for most of the 1980s , the interest yield on UK government securities has exceeded the rate of inflation . |
| 26 | The purchase of UK company securities hit a low point in 1984 but has run at about 3.5bn for most of the 1980s . |
| 27 | This suggests that there was not a close link between the growth of broad money and the rate of inflation for most of the 1980s . |
| 28 | Along with other future communist leaders , he was imprisoned by the French colonial authorities for most of the 1930s . |
| 29 | FOR MOST of the '70s and all of the '80s , this monumental folly-cum- tour de force was universally derided as the cypher standing for all that was preposterous about the British progressive rock movement . |
| 30 | For most of the 1830s and 1840s Nicholas 's policy towards non-Russians took the form of " inter-national " rather than " international " relations . |