Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] much [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He joined them when he first moved to England in 1991 to contest the Vauxhall junior championship , a series he led for much of the season . |
| 2 | Murphy and Taggart led for much of the way but missed out a loop section of the route which cost them 30 marks and they dropped back . |
| 3 | Joe Foley led for much of the distance , but once Belfast 's Stephen Mely had fought his way clear of a rather physical confrontation with Michael Cullen he closed on Foley and moved ahead with two of the 15 laps left . |
| 4 | Despite the efforts of hordes of gluttonous ants who dined on much of the grass seed , the first game on the first Spanish cricket ground was played there on Saturday , January 11 and the club hosted the Inter-Island Balearic Championships over the first weekend of May . |
| 5 | Precipitation decreases occurred over much of the United States , most of Europe and Russia and over Japan , while increases in precipitation over India and the Middle East were indicative of a more intense monsoon circulation in warm years ( figure 6.17b ) . |
| 6 | Conditions improved after 1933 , but a measure of agricultural depression persisted through much of the 1930s . |
| 7 | Alice Masaryk , with whom Plečnik worked on much of the castle , was fond of reflecting that Slovakia was the Greece of the Slav nation . |
| 8 | Such thinking was behind the absurd argument that the police should be restrained from giving hot pursuit to stolen cars , and it also lay behind much of the nit-picking objection to the Bill that we heard from the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook . |
| 9 | As Mr Aitken almost points out , the perpetrators were unlikely to be genuine rugby supporters , but this is unfortunately a result of the national team 's success and the unhealthy Anglophobia nurtured by much of the Scottish press . |
| 10 | Many Low Countrymen of more modest means emigrated for much of the year to work in expanding sectors of the economy . |
| 11 | There was a significant fall in sea level , and huge valley systems were carved beneath an ice sheet that extended over much of the delta plain . |
| 12 | But when the sun went behind clouds , and particularly after a rain shower when the undergrowth was moist , they travelled during much of the day . |
| 13 | Calcavecchia finished 147th in driving accuracy last year , but swept past much of the field to finish 33rd in hitting greens in regulation . |