Example sentences of "[adv] [be] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their first years together were a time of grinding poverty . |
| 2 | They think I 'm a dead duck but it 's not been a time you could write off . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's not a bad man , ’ the girl said , and there was a slight tremble in her voice ; she knew that things had gone wrong for her father , and that there would soon be a time of parting . |
| 4 | In a country where infant mortality is low , it is expected that children will live into adulthood and outlive their parents , so that there will not be a time when it seems likely that a child will die before their parents . |
| 5 | PRINCESS Margaret will celebrate her 62nd birthday today — but it will not be a time for partying . |
| 6 | As Henry watched her retreating buttocks , grinding out yet another dismissal , he tried to remember if there had ever been a time , years ago , when he had desired her . |
| 7 | If there had ever been a time when it had been a whim and not an obligation , that time was gone now ; the thing was there waiting for him , blocking his path , and there was no way round it to his manhood . |
| 8 | Regardless of what the manufacturers of integrated software may tell us it can still be a time consuming process to off-load the document from the wordprocessor and pull in the data base and its files to look up a simple telephone number . |
| 9 | But however bad a year it has been , Christmas should always be a time of hope and happiness . |
| 10 | Retirement is a time of great change and should also be a time for development . |
| 11 | It will also be a time of rejoicing and feasting in the Messianic banquet ( Matt. |
| 12 | Though adolescence is generally a time of intense sociability. it can also often be a time of intense loneliness . |
| 13 | Now is a time to focus on priorities and to strip away anything in your life that is superfluous . |
| 14 | Despite these real successes , however , my sense is that now is a time to take stock and to reflect on the theoretical , pedagogic and political foundations of multiculturalism and antiracism . |
| 15 | She spoke sadly , as though to a twenty-four-year-old there really was a time of lost innocence , and I suppose , if the twenty-four-year-old was a cocaine addict , then there was indeed such a time . |
| 16 | Yet there really was a time when people seriously doubted whether Britain was governable any more ; when we appeared to be doomed to decline ; when our friends pitied us ; when envy masqueraded as economic policy . |
| 17 | There really was a time when some thought that trade union leaders were more important than the Prime Minister and the Cabinet ; when families were stopped from buying the council homes they lived in ; when we were taxed more heavily on our incomes and savings than almost anyone else in the developed world ; when many of our most important industries were run at enormous loss by the State . |
| 18 | In fact , the next two or three days may well be a time of harsh words and even harsher realities , particularly on the work front . |
| 19 | 1993 could well be a time when you can no longer put up with frustrating dead-ends . |
| 20 | What I 've got here is a time series of potato yields over time . |
| 21 | When was a time when you were assertive , just think you can be anything assertive over anything it does n't matter think of a time when you feel you were being assertive anybody think of a time when they were being assertive |
| 22 | There has never been a time , it seems , when the world has been so dominated by the politics of nationalism . |
| 23 | There has never been a time more conscious of chronological age than our own . |
| 24 | As the protagonist in Kafka 's Conversation with a Suppliant confessed : ‘ There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive . ’ |
| 25 | Yet there has never been a time when the British people were more in need of a vigilant and free Press . |
| 26 | ‘ Our message is that there has never been a time like this to pick up a bargain , ’ a spokeswoman said . |
| 27 | There has never been a time when women were not interested in politics … |
| 28 | There 's never been a time when you 've nearly split up ? |
| 29 | There has never been a time in economic history when comparative advantage was less static . |
| 30 | There had never been a time when they had not wrangled , and yet after his fashion he was fond of her . |