Example sentences of "most of [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most of that time he took drugs . |
| 2 | Mr Clay added : ‘ I have spent 35 years serving the nursing profession , most of that time as a member of the College . |
| 3 | Nurses claimed she had waited most of that time for an ambulance to take her to another hospital . |
| 4 | Most of that time he dived for red snapper along the edge of a break in the reef . |
| 5 | It is now clear that dinosaurs were supreme for 130 million years , and that mammals co-existed with them , albeit small and insignificant through most of that time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In fact , they had known each other for only two years , and had been lovers for most of that time . |
| 9 | There has been a monastic community at Einsiedeln for more than a thousand years , for most of that time a Benedictine monastery . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I ended up in Sweden for most of that time . |
| 12 | Now , a couple of soothing hours later — she 'd spent most of that time at the Killearn workshop — she knew exactly why she 'd reacted as she had . |
| 13 | For most of that time she was in labour and great pain , she told an inquest this afternoon . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Apart from these tensional effects , most of Mesozoic times over most of Europe may be thought of as what I have called the " long quiet episode " . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For most of this time , for example , much of northern Europe was in the condition of a shallow , flooded shelf . |