Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] for most " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Food and Drug Administration has also hinted that it may revise a policy that does not at present require special safety testing or labelling for most biotechnology foods . |
| 2 | He was Charles Longuet Higgins , who was born in Turvey Abbey in 1806 and lived for most of his life in the family home . |
| 3 | The disease front has been moving ahead by fits and starts for most of the last two decades and three years ago crossed the Italian frontier into the provinces of South Tyrol and Venice . |
| 4 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 5 | When their prey species are inactive , cats may as well save energy , because they are unlikely to be successful in hunting , and so they rest and sleep for most of the day . |
| 6 | The nature of pollution control work draws attention to these issues because it involves a substantial degree of discretion at field level among staff who are physically dispersed and isolated for most of the day while tending a complex and unpredictable environment . |
| 7 | It has also shown that treatment of children with cystic fibrosis has produced adults who are fit , active , and integrated for most of their lives . |
| 8 | He shuffled past well ordered , dusted shelves and racks , and past the little office where his father had sat and schemed for most of his life . |
| 9 | PSR1706–44 lies within the 1° radius error circle of the COS-B source 2CG342–02 at ( epoch 1950 coordinates are used throughout ) and accounts for most , if not all , of the γ -ray flux from the area . |
| 10 | The meristems located at the root and shoot apices of the embryo recommence activity following sowing of the seed and persist for most of the life of the plant . |
| 11 | Farther round the arc was the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan , which began in 1979 and lasted for most of 10 years , despite resistance by the Mujahedin . |