см. тж. в течение значительной части года
• The soil is dry during much of the year.
• For much of that time the number of spots on the Sun has been increasing.
• A major portion ( or part ) of the earlier work was concerned with ...
• Compression is responsible for the inversion in the Los Angeles basin during a good fraction ( or part ) of the year.
• In much of this region yields of rice have doubled.