Example sentences of "it [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question is : can they get it to work a second time ? |
| 2 | It has a geography , often in three dimensions , and it has a fast-moving time dimension . |
| 3 | A bird kept in captivity is fed all year round , so obviously it has an easier time than one in the wild which has to feed itself whatever the season , but it still has the hunting instinct . |
| 4 | I remember myself , one time we had we had two grand fields and it were They were almost ripe when it came an awful time of rain , and they were just a sort of flattened . |
| 5 | It seemed a good time to make my excuses and leave , and I did both . ’ |
| 6 | It seemed a right time , a right moment to ask Shama another question which had been haunting me . |
| 7 | It seemed a long time since she had been out of her apartment , longer still since she had taken a walk . |
| 8 | It seemed a long time before the railway lines began to shake , and they heard the train coming . |
| 9 | It seemed a long time since she had stood there watching the boats and noticing how brief lack of caution led to trouble . |
| 10 | It seemed a long time since Dana 's phone call had brought Roman Wyatt into her life and she badly needed to be by herself to think about the turmoil he had caused in her ordered existence . |
| 11 | It seemed a long time before anyone answered and she felt rather stupid standing there with the bottles . |
| 12 | It seemed a long time since the small breakfast that was served in Spain , and in the end Felipe put a portion of each on her plate . |
| 13 | The part of her story about the pressure of Government cuts was true , and it seemed a long time since she 'd existed in a world that was n't penny-pinching . |
| 14 | It seemed a long time before footsteps came along the hall , the door was pushed wider and Guy appeared with an armful of logs . |
| 15 | It seemed a long time when I was a little girl , ’ added Mrs Teasdale . |
| 16 | But it seemed a long time . |
| 17 | The moon was full , the sky clear ; it seemed an ideal time for the manifestation of ghosts . |
| 18 | ‘ It happened a long time ago , my dear , when we were quite small , romping in the wood . |
| 19 | It takes a little time to sec that you 're not moving forward any more , either because you do n't know how or because there is n't anywhere to move forward to . |
| 20 | Once a nectary has been drained , it takes a little time to refill . |
| 21 | I imagine they walked in silence for some way after that ; putting a new idea into someone 's imagination , even if that imagination belongs to the cleverest young Fellow of the very grandest college , is like turning on the television — it takes a little time for the set to warm up . |
| 22 | The second — Mr Lawson 's line -that demand is indeed slowing down , but that it takes a long time to affect the balance of payments . |
| 23 | It takes a long time to reach Dynjandi , but the weather improves as the day wears on , leaving me with wonderful views across the Arnarfjörđ3ur , its far peaks wreathed in clouds . |
| 24 | It takes a long time to warm up , a very long time , but then I sleep as though practising for death . |
| 25 | It is not fair to expect your local delicatessen to do it for you as it takes a long time to slice the whole ham and Parma must be cut thinly . |
| 26 | But it takes a long time to regain trust . |
| 27 | The problem with weight loss is that it takes a long time to get what you want . |
| 28 | Banks are like supertankers : it takes a long time to turn them round . |
| 29 | Well , the best thing about the course is , I think , that you get an all-round view of how it 's arranged and the time aspect of the information flow — that it takes a long time for information to reach the books and compendia etc . |
| 30 | It takes a long time for an explosion in the southern hemisphere to affect the north ; an eruption in the northern hemisphere has a much quicker impact on us . |