Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , a bond only has a short time left to maturity , it will be much more liquid : its market price will be near its face value . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , apparently she only has a short time to live ; David came back to be with her — he 's even living at Brooklands . ’ |
| 3 | Since it necessarily takes a long time to produce such a report , the mandatory period within which the legal claim should be registered has frequently , even usually , expired before the report is available . |
| 4 | ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there . |
| 5 | It just requires a little time and activity from the old grey matter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Still takes a long time to chew . |
| 8 | Bernie Ecclestone , however , feels guardedly optimistic , ‘ It always takes a long time to get an F1 race up and running in the US , ’ he said . |
| 9 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 10 | Well it 's always takes a long time . |
| 11 | Brook ruled this out : ‘ I do not , however , favour this suggestion — we could not adopt it without undertaking a review of the Cabinet Committee organisation and that always takes a substantial time , as so many Ministers and others have to be consulted . |
| 12 | The Threshold level must be set carefully for the unit to be fully effective , and beware , because getting this absolutely right takes a little time . |
| 13 | The event also provides a good time for parents to see evidence of the caring nature of the school and gain a flavour of the ethos and quality of relationships . |
| 14 | This compact mill now forms a fascinating time capsule and gives a valuable insight into the life and workings of a small country mill in years gone by . |
| 15 | In a big house it often takes a long time for everyone to find ‘ Smee ’ . |
| 16 | Also the fragility of the grammar — there are a number of features that are not covered by the grammar and it often takes a long time to reject the sentence . |
| 17 | From April 1987 to now seems a long time , but the barren spell seems over . |
| 18 | The main season for preparing annual reports and accounts will soon be with us — the year end of 83 of the FTSE Top 100 companies falls between 31 December and 31 March — so now seems a good time for finance directors to assess whether their annual tome is user friendly . |
| 19 | Bladder control at night sometimes happens a long time after control in the day , and as with daytime training , it 's best to wait until a child shows signs of being able to develop control . |
| 20 | Inevitably , this sometimes takes a little time , but the camera crews are becoming remarkably skilled at finding the Members and delay is now minimised . |
| 21 | It therefore provides a good time to reflect on the experience so far in trying to encourage the transfer and synthesis of knowledge across the two fields and to look to the future in the light of that experience . |