Example sentences of "spend the major " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me appropriate and indeed perhaps essential that one should offer a brief biographical sketch of Proust on an occasion like this , but I shall try to avoid the unbalance of which I 've spoken , by at least relating the biography to the circumstances in which the novel was written , and I shall in any case spend the major part of the time that remains on an examination of the novel itself . |
| 2 | At Canniesburn Hospital , where he spent the major part of his working life , his close friend and colleague , Professor W Henry Reid , said that Prof Gibson was one of the city 's finest sons . |
| 3 | And as a kid , you live very Technicolour experiences , and it all influences how you live the rest of your life , and so since all that horror , I 've spent the major part of my life making a safe place for myself . |
| 4 | Although accountants may be on hand , the surveyor at partner level in a growing practice , or one of a substantial size , may find himself in the anomalous situation of spending the major part of his time on management for which he received no training rather than on technical matters , in which he is expert . |
| 5 | If you have to spend the major part of the day in an office , house or factory , can you open the windows ? |
| 6 | Man is essentially a social being and spends the major part of each day communicating with other people in one way or another . |
| 7 | It has been argued that the conventional ‘ male breadwinner ’ earning a ‘ family wage ’ is being superseded by a new convention in which both male and female partners spend the major part of their potential working lives in employment . |