Example sentences of "a [adj] time [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen would also want a little time alone with her to tell her about his work . |
| 2 | Allocate a specific time each day as your ‘ worry time ’ . |
| 3 | A different time this is , if you get me . |
| 4 | ‘ We had a swell time this week-end . |
| 5 | ‘ We had a smashing time last night . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Oh eh kid , I had a smashing time last night . |
| 7 | After finishing second to Jackie Stewart the following year he was crowned " king " for a second time twelve months later . |
| 8 | The Ulsterman has decided to remain faithful to 1991 Champion hero Morley Street , as Toby Balding 's eight-year-old clashes with Granville Again for a second time this season . |
| 9 | Try to allocate yourself a set time each day when you will practise your exercises . |
| 10 | Make sure you weigh yourself daily , preferably at a similar time each day and in a similar state of dress or undress . |
| 11 | ‘ If you must know , I had a rotten time last night , ’ she said sulkily . |
| 12 | Echo planar imaging is a real time magnetic resonance imaging method capable of producing snapshot images in times ranging from 64–128 ms . |
| 13 | A late election will also be acceptable where at a crucial time one of the signatories or a signatory 's agent was unavailable for unforeseeable reasons ( such as a serious illness ) and there was no one else who could reasonably be expected to stand in the agent 's shoes . |
| 14 | In this way , the learner will gain confidence , and this goes a long way to promoting safe practice if at a later time adequate guidance and support are lacking . |
| 15 | It seems that the seductive Suzie gave him a hard time one way and another . ’ |
| 16 | C. For a long time many people in the highlands and uplands of Scotland have disliked being so remote . |
| 17 | But for a long time all the local shop-boys had insulted him because he wore the uniform of a charity-boy . |
| 18 | It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption . |
| 19 | It had been known for a long time that histamine was responsible for producing many allergies and the first antihistamine drug was produced in France in 1937 . |
| 20 | We have also known for a long time that morphine cures diarrhoea . |
| 21 | Her house was full of bead curtains and reproduction furniture — a fact which impressed me so much I thought for a long time that Reproduction was a period like Jacobean and Elizabethan . |
| 22 | For a long time that night too he had not slept , had lain thinking , wondering what to do , listening to the delicate sounds like tiny bubbles breaking — and then hearing them no more . |
| 23 | I was awake a long time that night . |
| 24 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 25 | Erm that 's a long time that one came out . |
| 26 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
| 27 | She lay awake for a long time that night , going over the conversation with her mother , trying to work out what she should say to Leo , and she rehearsed so many and varied conversations that she thought she 'd go mad . |
| 28 | We have accepted for a long time that traumatic stress incidents are the basis of an industrial injury claim . |
| 29 | I lay there for a long time unhappy and hardly noticing the daily noises of the block assembling round me . |
| 30 | Delighted about Jim , apprehensive for Jasper , Alice lay for a long time awake in the silent room . |