Example sentences of "major part [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | However the board 's chief executive , Alan Smith , was able to say that unlike yesterday 's press conference the issue at the board meeting did not occupy a major part of the time . |
2 | However the board 's chief executive , Alan Smith , was able to say that unlike yesterday 's press conference the issue at the board meeting did not occupy a major part of the time . |
3 | He absconded from [ the open unit ] and his whereabouts were unknown for the major part of the time . |
4 | Even in cases where industry has not neglected an invention , the major part of the time is consumed in development rather than research . |
5 | The major part of the time would be spent in at least two and no more than four groups meeting around the building . |
6 | 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 . |