Sentence examples for mostly in reference from inspiring English sources

I have worked in academic libraries for over 20 years, mostly in reference roles.

Before the 1980s, the word "bracket" appeared in newspapers mostly in reference to tax classifications, and the only office pools anyone wrote about involved National Football League games and required participants to understand the vagaries of the point spread.

Marmite has previously been used as a comparison, though mostly in reference to its need to be spread thinly (or thickly, if that is what you really like): "It was quite a night for medicine and a little medicine, like Marmite, goes quite a long way," Nancy Banks-SmiTV, TV review, 22 February 1991.

The general process has been known by many names: "co-option," "adoption from a different function," "recruitment" (mostly in reference to genes), or, in an outmoded term a little too suggestive of teleology, "preadaptation" (e.g., Gould and Vrba 1982; Arnold 1994; Thornhill and Ussery 2000; McLennan 2008).

The adjective Falls uses most often is "extraordinary," mostly in reference to other theater artists with whom he has had long collaborative relationships.

"I don't give a f--k what the president's got to say," the rapper intoned in a freestyle-like screed that also included digs at Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z, the Grammys and "business people". Barack Obama has twice called West a "jackass," mostly in reference to West's 2009 interruption of Taylor Swift at the VMAs.

(In contrast, the percentage increased among the few companies from emerging economies in the group). And use of the words "global" and "globalization," while up significantly, was mostly in references to the economic slowdown and its impact on company performance.

The crowding of the canvas with naked, buxom female forms, the carnival masks, in this case mostly marine in reference, the ornate busy-ness of the composition -- and, too, the darker side of the baroque vision, the spikes, fork tines and hooks, the satanic tails and barbs that contrast the exuberant celebration of lively sensuality with the adumbration of sinfulness, damnation, and death.

Information can be linked to the genome from other databases, such as the Pathogen-Host Interaction entries [ 47] to efficiently access phenotypic information from pathogenicity testing involving single and multiple gene deletion isolates generated mostly in the reference strain PH-1.

He collected his references, mostly from management before the merger.

But for almost a decade afterward "securocrats" was mostly used only in reference to South Africa.