Example sentences of "much of [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For much of the time , he is the achiever who tries for a reasonable percentage return . |
| 2 | To most people , a receptionist is an obstacle to be negotiated , and that was unfortunately how I was made to feel for much of the time . |
| 3 | The other game was far more interesting with Speelman looking for much of the time as though he was spending a very unhappy 33rd birthday . |
| 4 | Surveying the solitary chair and bare mattress , the missing lightbulbs round the mirror , you understand why for much of the time Newley keeps his eyes closed , picturing maybe the backstage steamrooms and personal barmen of American showbiz . |
| 5 | They were with Mr Mandela until 10pm , much of the time he and Mrs Sisulu simply recalling their old days together and recounting what they had done all these years . |
| 6 | Vivienne found Peters extremely boring , but the next day , Sunday , Peters and Eliot , who was looking very ill , went off to Greenwich , a choice of venue which suggests that the two men talked about sailing for much of the time . |
| 7 | Maggie had so little to do during the day that she spent much of the time chatting and gossiping with Rose . |
| 8 | Much of the time , however , Jack was alone . |
| 9 | For much of the time the only sounds were the chatter of birds and the humming of my bike 's knobbly tyres , but the wide panoramas changed constantly as the countryside unfolded around me . |
| 10 | The organising committee took four hours to announce the seedings and draw order , much of the time being taken up trying to persuade West Germany , who had assumed they were going to Verona , to switch to Milan at the last moment . |
| 11 | The organising committee took four hours to announce the seedings and draw order , much of the time being taken up trying to persuade West Germany , who had assumed they were going to Verona , to switch to Milan at the last moment . |
| 12 | The dolphin has undergone some remarkable adaptations in order to survive a life in which it is under water much of the time . |
| 13 | A fine attacking batsman , he had been in the England team for much of the time since making his debut in 1982 , but after his four centuries in the summer of 1984 he had disappointed too often and his average scarcely reflected his ability — in 57 Tests he had made just over 3,000 runs at 34 before the tour began . |
| 14 | On the second of these , the captain , Leslie Ames , was injured for much of the time and Worrell was appointed his deputy . |
| 15 | These incidents are rare not only because national emergencies are mercifully infrequent , but because for much of the time there is an instinctive understanding between the governors of the broadcasting organization and the government of the nation , as the corporation 's behaviour on issues like appeasement demonstrates ; Reith succumbed to the same collective delusion that had seized Chamberlain , his foreign secretary , Halifax , and most of the population . |
| 16 | The horse will continually overreact to his handler and everything around him ; and he will be nervy , difficult , and ‘ jumpy ’ much of the time . |
| 17 | Much of the time she could only be ridden towards her dinner bucket ; any other direction except backwards produced complete refusal . |
| 18 | Much of the time the principal performers were not even aware of what we were doing for them . |
| 19 | The contra leaders , sitting for much of the time in Miami in their well-cut lightweight suits and their gold watches , had purposes in view , some of them not especially noble ; the rebels in the field were mostly tired , variously motivated , and confused . |
| 20 | In between he was , for much of the time , all over the shop , scrambling pars more than hunting birdies . |
| 21 | Much of the time he stayed hidden in his study . |
| 22 | His obsession with wiping surfaces had passed and he now spent much of the time sticking little stones to the wall instead . |
| 23 | In fact MI5 was wasting its time because Khrushchev and Bulganin were well aware of this and spent much of the time in their suite holding nonsensical conversations that appeared to include tantalising references to important matters but were in reality pure rubbish . |
| 24 | If Susanna Jennens was alone much of the time , there is no reason to doubt that she gave attention to her kitchen maid and that she encouraged her to read and to write poetry . |
| 25 | The fact is that men and women of that day inhabited separate worlds ; their social rounds and domestic activities kept them in the society of their own sex much of the time . |
| 26 | Although he referred to her in letters to Zbo as ‘ his wife ’ and was concerned and excited about the baby , Modi was very much the Italian husband , leaving his woman alone while he visited the cafés , living inside of himself for much of the time , coming home drunk and moving restlessly from place to place . |
| 27 | It was built in 1490 and for much of the time it was owned by the Darrel family . |
| 28 | But for much of the time , without the right circumstances , they remained hungry , prophets without followings . |
| 29 | However , for much of the time , these violent commitments are relatively rare . |
| 30 | THE social order of the European high Middle Ages was characterized by an immense number of local subsistence economies , with relatively little intercommunication for much of the time . |