Example sentences of "for [det] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may even be abroad for some of that time . ’ |
| 2 | in psychology and chucked in electrical engineering and started a psychology course and he had to work at the same time as he studied for some of that time |
| 3 | Both parents were present and absent for some of this time . |
| 4 | For much of that time , local government acted as an arena through which wider political debates about the state were conducted . |
| 5 | Patrick had fallen off a ladder over a year and a half ago and had been off work for much of that time . |
| 6 | People have been studying the behavioural functions of the brain for something less than two centuries and , for much of that time , their efforts have been hampered by a combination of inevitable ignorance and adherence to implausible psychological theories . |
| 7 | The absence of new gilt issues for a period from 1988 to 1991 and the steeply inverted yield curve for much of that time meant that the eurosterling bond market developed strongly . |
| 8 | He had been in and out of the England team for ten years and had played 55 Tests , probably the best off-spinner in the world for much of this time . |
| 9 | For much of this time the country was in a continual state of war , with the Moors in the south and the Christians in the north constantly invading each others ' borders . |
| 10 | For much of this time Holroyd Smith was synonymous with Blackpool , the location of his achievement by installing one of the world 's first sustainable application of electricity to street transport . |
| 11 | There was no real communication between me and my father , who was also on holiday from school for much of this time . |
| 12 | Although Marseilles is known to have been shared between two kings for much of this time , details of the division are hard to establish . |
| 13 | But she had lived inside the Dark Realm for many months , she had been forced to see the terrible creatures that hold sway there , and she had been at Medoc 's mercy for all of that time . |
| 14 | For those with less time to shop or cook , Lesley Waters of BBC1 's Bazaar creates some really useful 15 minute feast . |
| 15 | For most of that time he took drugs . |
| 16 | The samples go back over 30 000 years , and they show that after being constant for most of that time the methane concentration began to increase in 1580 ( Geophysical Research Letters , vol 9. p 1221 ) At the end of the 16th century , the methane concentration began increasing at a rate of 0.114 ppmv per century ( parts per million by volume ) and around 1915 the rate accelerated to the present figure of 2.5 ppmv per century — if the data can be taken at face value . |
| 17 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 18 | In fact , they had known each other for only two years , and had been lovers for most of that time . |
| 19 | There has been a monastic community at Einsiedeln for more than a thousand years , for most of that time a Benedictine monastery . |
| 20 | Kim had been on the Wiring Project for almost year now , though for most of that time he had been kept out of things by Spatz . |
| 21 | I ended up in Sweden for most of that time . |
| 22 | For most of that time she was in labour and great pain , she told an inquest this afternoon . |
| 23 | I have lived adjacent to Bootle Grammar School in Netherton for 25 years and have been plagued with these golfers for most of that time . |
| 24 | Strombolian activity continued for most of this time in the little cone built up over the fissure , until it was a respectable thirty metres or so in height , while the lavas snaked down-slope in several glowing tongues , permanently ruining many of the best skiing slopes , engulfing one by one the pylons that carried the cable-way , and demolishing the upper cable-station . |
| 25 | For most of this time , for example , much of northern Europe was in the condition of a shallow , flooded shelf . |