Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] a [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 For companies like , pitching to investors has become virtually a full time job .
2 ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly .
3 " He should have done so a long time ago .
4 ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed .
5 ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’
6 This is where some fault or other has manifested itself sufficiently to affect the flight , though the critical event might have happened quite a long time before and been ‘ cooking up ’ until the divergence took place .
7 Sorry to have taken rather a long time to reply but Andrew was in transit back to and around Italy .
8 The carburettor had clogged up a second time in the storm and they had had to wait until it was over .
9 Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out .
10 Hayling 's dummy had been a marathon performance over months , whilst Sutton had had only a short time and few people .
11 Lewes had spent only a short time with the unit , but had impressed everyone with his absolute dedication to his work .
12 We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time .
13 We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time .
14 ‘ We have to give those who have lived here a long time the right to become German citizens , ’ Johannes Gerster , deputy leader of the CDU parliamentary group , said at the weekend .
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