Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slacker , a term denoting a Twentysomething who wants no responsibility and loves a good time , was a major US cult hit last year for director Richard Linklater — and deservedly so . |
| 2 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
| 3 | Another super-domestique of great experience is Sean Yates from Sussex , who has won a long time trial stage in the tour . |
| 4 | What is more , much of government expenditure is committed a long time in advance and can not easily be cut . |
| 5 | Stephen entered a short time later , looking anxious . |
| 6 | At 1.15 a.m. ( becoming a favourite time ) Baldwin again saw the TUC and ‘ with great regret ’ in effect dismissed them . |
| 7 | In addition , deictic locations always have to be specified with respect to the location of a participant at coding time , i.e. place deixis always incorporates a covert time deixis element , while the converse is not true . |
| 8 | If a person who was occupied a considerable time in a search gave an additional fee to the parish clerk , saying , ‘ I wish to make you some compensation for your time , ’ that would be a voluntary payment . |
| 9 | If a person who was occupied a considerable time in a search gave an additional fee to the parish clerk , saying , ‘ I wish to make you some compensation for your time , ’ that would be a voluntary payment . |
| 10 | Most of the , what has happened I think , over the last two and half years , that I 'm aware of , erm , is basically happening a long time before that , I , I ca n't say yes or no . |
| 11 | But worries over its future have been allayed after Darlington college stepped in to subsidise the cost of employing a full time teacher at the unit to ensure it can continue its daytime classes . |
| 12 | Darlington college has now agreed it will subsidise the cost of employing a full time teacher so daytime classes can continue . |
| 13 | You want a good time , do n't you — with the flesh-pots of Egypt thrown in ! |
| 14 | The , councillor I am not passionate about getting rid of union representation , what I am passionate about is union members paying for their own representation , not me , not the people out there , if they want a full time union official let them pay for it but do n't expect other people to pick up the bill , it 's ludicrous er to er put that sort of money in our budget . |
| 15 | Suppose that the contract contains a simple time limit clause such as : The Buyer will notify the Seller of any claim it may have against the Seller for breach of contract within three days of delivery and that the seller delivers short of the required quantity and the goods are later found to suffer from a latent defect . |
| 16 | Someone reported a long time ago that an old lady , on her deathbed , was heard to say : ‘ Weel , it will be a great blessing to hear at last the real truth of the Gowrie conspiracy ’ . |
| 17 | Over 900 of them said : ‘ It should have come a long time ago — very few people have done more for charity , public service and their Party than you have ’ . |
| 18 | The race build up has been disrupted by the controversy over an attempt to impose a minimum time limit of 1hr 50min , because of road closures . |
| 19 | This was resolved a short time later when an unstable product of a short-term incubation of arachidonic acid with cyclo-oxygenase prepared from the vesicular gland of sheep was found to induce platelet aggregation ( Willis & Kuhn , 1973 ) . |
| 20 | Even here , one could wait a long time . |
| 21 | ‘ We might wait a long time ! ’ he said . |
| 22 | He 's given me a few jokes but only ones he used a long time ago ! ’ |
| 23 | He used a basic time range , later extended , of nine years , checking bibliographic coverage for 4 years before the base year , and four years afterwards . |
| 24 | This 24 hours is only two-thirds of the 36 hours available ; it should be considered a minimum time to allocate to private study . |
| 25 | Du n no people have said like that will last a really short time or a really long time , but what 's considered a short time I know what a long time is , a long time is like sort of four months three sort of four months onwards in n it for like people our age , what would a short time be they ? |
| 26 | It wo n't buy the rest of your life , but it 'll certainly fund a good time . |
| 27 | I was then permitted a short time during the lunch interval to study this new material before being cross-examined on it . |
| 28 | The fact that a criminal offence occurred a long time ago does not absolve the wrong-doer from guilt , and justice must be done , whether it is 30 or 300 years later . |
| 29 | The poem is too long to quote in its entirety here , but the opening lines should provide a suitable contrast with " The retreate " : Here , a particular incident in the past is being recalled ; so the bulk of the poem has a content time which is separate from the coding time . |
| 30 | It has a geography , often in three dimensions , and it has a fast-moving time dimension . |