Example sentences of "most of the [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later you should do most of the session in spikes . |
| 2 | THE stock market yesterday stayed a few points in positive territory for most of the session in advance of the Budget and as a wave of company results gave dealers plenty to digest . |
| 3 | Ashington can be seen to fit very neatly into Michael Chisholm 's model of ideal land use around a settlement ; indeed , most of the villages in south-east Somerset do ( Fig. 90 ) , as do many thousands across England . |
| 4 | It was a cold , wet February ; and Branson spent most of the weekend in front of the blazing log fire , reading . |
| 5 | This conservatism was arguably excessive , given the subsequent relatively trouble-free experience of most of the innovations in power station design which might realistically have been on the agenda at this time . |
| 6 | The verbatim reports reached most of the newspapers in places such as Aberdeen at one o " clock in the morning of the 30th . " |
| 7 | The rents of most of the houses in Combsburgh vary from 1/ — to 1/6d per week . ’ |
| 8 | Servicing of the foreign debt accounted for most of the increase in spending . |
| 9 | Only recently vice-president Quayle remarked that most of the refugees in Hong Kong are political — which , as the Secretary of State will be aware , led to a halving of applications for voluntary repatriation . |
| 10 | In spite of this precaution , the speech came as a great shock to most of the officers in Algeria , indeed to the army as a whole . |
| 11 | Most of the sediment in fact seems to be accumulating close inshore and very little gets to the outer shelf or the deeps . |
| 12 | , I take the view that the A sixty four north eastern sector has higher landscape value that most of the others in fact all of the others . |
| 13 | After selling part of his holding in Newmont , Sir James immediately re-invested most of the money in gold , in the form of call options . |
| 14 | Most of the teachers in grammar schools were graduates of universities : many , but by no means all of them , had also taken a one-year course of teacher training after completing their undergraduate studies . |
| 15 | Most of the differences in size arise from differences in cell number . |
| 16 | Nearly 17 per cent of Indians are in Birmingham and Coventry , with most of the rest in West Yorkshire , and the East Midlands . |
| 17 | Most of the families in Rimswell , especially those concerned in agriculture , have lived there for some generations . |
| 18 | ‘ But Mr Kronquist , as several of you already know , was assisting Mrs Sheila Williams during most of the afternoon in question with the temperamental kaleidoscope allocated to her for her illustrated talk on ‘ Alice ’ . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , most of the planners in Newcastle think that the issue of joint purchasing and a wider debate about dissolving the boundary between health markets and care markets is one that the community care arrangements will increasingly force upon them . |
| 20 | And most of the Yiddin in Cork — you know them , you know them all . |
| 21 | Prince Charles yesterday spent most of the day in Wales . |
| 22 | She and Ruth lived most of the year in Ealing , where their father owned a furniture shop . |
| 23 | THE CHILD HERSELF OF A fractured relationship , Neneh was raised by her mother and step-father Don Cherry , whom Moki ( now an artist who works for most of the year in New York ) met soon after Neneh was born . |
| 24 | Not his brother , who had now left the Army and spent most of the year in Algiers . |
| 25 | As Mrs Shand Kydd spent most of the year in Scotland it was as good as her own place . |
| 26 | For instance , Abdulraham Bu Riziq spent most of the year in camp about twenty miles from Ajdabiya . |
| 27 | Alecko Papamarkou , who lives most of the year in America , is always a very kind and welcoming host , and loves to see his friends enjoying themselves . |
| 28 | Most of the leaders in Burma in the 1920s and 1930s appealed to an older tradition . |
| 29 | Real property included most of the interests in land recognized by the law , and other rights , such as easements and profits ( see p. 82 ) , annexed to the land . |
| 30 | It has been estimated that in a narrow clinical sense the Famine probably accounted for under 15 per cent of the extra mortality recorded at the height of the disaster in Saratov in 1921–2 : but in a broader sense , including deaths due to severe malnutrition and other causes , the Famine contributed to most of the rise in mortality that took place before the 1922 harvest . |