Example sentences of "most of [art] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | British Commonwealth links , though gossamer thin for most of the time , can become emotional ties of steel in times of crisis , drawing us into unexpected military commitments , as occurred in the Falklands Campaign . |
| 32 | For most of the time since 1986 , many parent companies would have done better putting their money safely in a bank deposit than risking it in the securities markets . |
| 33 | Although most of the time the energy not carried by the electron was taken away by an everyday massless neutrino , sometimes it was carried by a neutrino that weighed a comparatively large 17 keV . |
| 34 | For most of the time the ‘ Big Bird ’ preferred to sacrifice the flat-out pace of his team-mates for accuracy and control , taking wickets by making the ball swing and cut , and so in Tests was for some years used as first or second change bowler . |
| 35 | Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments , and most of the time we are ageless . |
| 36 | As the hand-maid of the Lord , most of the time she could only be there , watching helplessly . |
| 37 | I 'm told that the television is on most of the time in my house — the police can detect it — and I want to say something to Liam , if he 's watching . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ He did , and with somebody else most of the time . |
| 39 | PS Nutty 's got a good pair of legs if they 're any use to you , why do n't you slice your way over here to see them ? do n't think he 'd miss them as he 's legless most of the time anyway . |
| 40 | I 'm not saying she 's perfect , but most of the time , she 's fairly near . |
| 41 | It was something I felt driven to do — even if most of the time I felt that I was just faking it . |
| 42 | Up to 4,000rpm on a light throttle ( ie most of the time ) , engine noise is distant . |
| 43 | Between you and the dogs and that stupid bitch you 're married to , he 's frightened to death most of the time . ’ |
| 44 | Similarly , you will almost certainly break with any regime that results primarily in disagreeable consequences ( for example , if you are desperately hungry and thinking about food most of the time ) . |
| 45 | You 're like a big kid most of the time . |
| 46 | All this space , being alone most of the time . ’ |
| 47 | He thought she was rather a strange girl ; more like a boy most of the time , but there were parts about her he really liked . |
| 48 | The horse has to succeed most of the time to retain its self-esteem and to increase it . |
| 49 | Most of the time we communicate verbally to each other , and we expect our horses to do the same . |
| 50 | I suppose I look very confident ; I know that most of the time , that 's how I want to look . |
| 51 | Many , if not most , women are not glamorous and feminine — at least not most of the time . |
| 52 | I do n't like the way I look , most of the time , for all the reasons I 've just given . |
| 53 | I feel very strong most of the time ; I 'm big and tall and I could outrun most people . |
| 54 | He spent like four hours or something with the attorney general and with these three other staff over there … and they spent most of the time talking about all aspects of the Iran initiative and so forth , and then at the very end Meese pulled out that April memo … and said , ‘ what about this ? ’ |
| 55 | Such selections , at provincial level , might be going on most of the time , the cause of much happiness , honest pride and scheming malice ! |
| 56 | They fit tightly most of the time because of the damp , but when we have a hot dry summer they shrink and you can lift them up easily . |
| 57 | For most of the time , however , it was as their future queen that this undoubtedly attractive child — Henri II 's ‘ most perfect child ’ — was to enchant everyone in France , apart from Catherine de' Medici . |
| 58 | However , he would be right most of the time even if the central dogma is wrong , and protein sequences could be translated into DNA sequences , because most ‘ acquired characters ’ would not involve the synthesis of new kinds of proteins . |
| 59 | It is easier for this to happen if there are in any case two copies of most genes present most of the time , as in diploids . |
| 60 | Everyone coughed most of the time , they could n't tell the difference between coughing and breathing after a while , but his was a real lung curdler when it got going . |