Example sentences of "for much " in BNC.
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| 1 | For much of its course , the later novel takes all this for granted . |
| 2 | For much of the time , he is the achiever who tries for a reasonable percentage return . |
| 3 | To most people , a receptionist is an obstacle to be negotiated , and that was unfortunately how I was made to feel for much of the time . |
| 4 | Bears ragged yellow daisies for much of the summer . |
| 5 | In sinking air even this would not be enough to allow for much choice and , of course , it assumes that the descent will be made over open countryside and not amongst hills or moorland . |
| 6 | Proposals for the development of a Taurus system have been under consideration for much of this decade . |
| 7 | Even this demanding job left energy for much else , and at this time he began to organise art exhibitions , building on his own strong interest in the visual arts which had been fired by visits to Florence and Venice and by the mammoth Van Gogh show in the 1950s , and which led early to his abiding love of the Italian Renaissance giants and of such British artists as Prunella Clough , Keith Vaughan and RobertMedley . |
| 8 | The other game was far more interesting with Speelman looking for much of the time as though he was spending a very unhappy 33rd birthday . |
| 9 | Labour 's employment spokesman was blamed for much of the confusion which arose at the TUC on the issue . |
| 10 | Peter Williams , the Salford centre , has been told that the shoulder injury which has kept him out for much of this season will need at least another week to heal . |
| 11 | Faced with an actor reading , as Alan Bates did for much of his one-man show at Edinburgh this year , you 're tempted to conclude that he 's a little under-rehearsed . |
| 12 | His tinnitus did not , as we had been led to believe , oblige him to spend the concert inside a perspex box ; he leapt across the stage , knees at 90-degree angles , for much of its three hour span . |
| 13 | But in a minority ‘ access to resources was unsatisfactory : apparatus was hidden in cupboards , stored haphazardly , scattered , or kept in rooms used for other purposes for much of the day ’ . |
| 14 | For much of that period the area was probably part of one of many statelets beyond the western edge of the early kingdom of East Anglia . |
| 15 | For much of this year , Glover 's drawn face has matched his prematurely greying shock of hair . |
| 16 | Surveying the solitary chair and bare mattress , the missing lightbulbs round the mirror , you understand why for much of the time Newley keeps his eyes closed , picturing maybe the backstage steamrooms and personal barmen of American showbiz . |
| 17 | Jane Bywaters , who has been responsible for much of the exhibition , said : ‘ We need to give people information so that they can make up their own minds about food and not be dictated to by the media and media events . ’ |
| 18 | The revival continued for much of 1978 . |
| 19 | For much of 1981 and early 1982 the Social Democrats seemed to carry all before them . |
| 20 | Vivienne found Peters extremely boring , but the next day , Sunday , Peters and Eliot , who was looking very ill , went off to Greenwich , a choice of venue which suggests that the two men talked about sailing for much of the time . |
| 21 | For much of the 1980s there was also a growing concern among ministers about the mounting financial costs of the system . |
| 22 | In 1981 it cut the link between earnings and unemployment benefits and uprated benefits in line with price rather than wage increases ( which have been higher for much of the decade ) . |
| 23 | For much of her first term the thrust of economic policy was regarded sceptically by many colleagues . |
| 24 | Politically there has been a shift to , or confirmation of , right-dominated governments for much of the 1980s in West Germany , Britain , USA , Denmark , the Netherlands , Belgium , Canada , and Japan . |
| 25 | For much of the period he discusses , it was far from easy to prove whether a couple was legally married at all . |
| 26 | Another sporting triumph followed hard upon the conquest of Everest and gave added reassurance to the nation , especially those steeped in the amateur spirit for whom the demolition of English professional football by Puskas and the Hungarians was not a matter for much regret . |
| 27 | It was probably in 1937 that he and Tolkien had a conversation about their distaste for much of what was being published at that time . |
| 28 | However , in the midst of a changing countryside , it is rural and suburban gardens rather than fields and hedgerows that now provide some of the best havens for these mammals , as they do for much of our native wildlife . |
| 29 | His own father , Prince Philip , was in the Navy for much of his childhood and the relationship between father and son was in any event a difficult one . |
| 30 | He is a remarkable old man in any setting , but in the bushveld of southern Africa , where he was born and has lived for much of his life , he was in his element . |