Example sentences of "a [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everyone agreed this was a rather daft time to conduct the inspection , when staff can not be expected to be enthusiastic . |
| 2 | ‘ Everyone agreed this was a rather daft time to conduct the inspection , when staff can not be expected to be enthusiastic . |
| 3 | She was wearing trousers and as she kept her feet on the ground she felt reasonably secure , at least ; she kept her toes on the ground and spent a rather hilarious time trying to get control of it in the courtyard , her attempts bringing Marguerite out with words of advice and wide smiles . |
| 4 | I 'm not saying they 'd have been sucked down with the yacht but they might have had a rather uncomfortable time . ’ |
| 5 | Monsieur Mitterand has already said that he 's going to seek to drive a harder bargain with Britain over fishing limits even than President Giscard was trying to do , and I think our negotiators must expect a rather tough time as far as fisheries are concerned . |
| 6 | David Bowden of Complins , Holybourne , who was running for the Multiple Sclerosis Society , recorded a rather faster time of two hours 56 minutes — but he was running in his seventh marathon . |
| 7 | Wednesday 's a rather muddled time when people and events force you to rethink certain situations and change one or two recent decisions . |
| 8 | Some galleries , for example , thrive on holiday trade whilst others have a rather lean time through the summer months . |
| 9 | It has been a rather nail-biting time in Bedford Square . |
| 10 | I 've had a rather difficult time of it of late and it may be affecting my attitude to people . ’ |
| 11 | Steve agreed , and was rewarded with a versatile and creative player who was a useful asset to the club at a rather difficult time . |
| 12 | It must be said , too , that the early and middle 1980s , at least as compared to the late 1980s and the early 1990s , were a remarkably placid time , without the edge brought to American cultural and artistic life by demands for sexual and gender liberation and by AIDS-induced desperation . |
| 13 | It has taken the rest of industry in this country a remarkably long time to come around to his viewpoint , but it is finally looking as though the penny has dropped . |
| 14 | In a remarkably short time changes in procedures , products and work-load , promotions , resignations , retirements and so on can transform any situation . |
| 15 | It took the Marines a remarkably short time to set up defensible emplacements on the wide dockside , before Mortimer sent his men into the city , ordering small groups to leapfrog each other in order to secure the university and consulates . |
| 16 | Let me yet again express the view that Lord Cullen and his staff have produced a document of world-class significance — in , given the circumstances , a remarkably short time . |
| 17 | In a remarkably short time , they have established an outstanding national and international reputation . |
| 18 | Sister also took the opportunity to address the needs of the clergy who , in their pastoral work , are dealing with bereaved people at a most crucial time . |
| 19 | I am extremely sorry , but I have just had a most trying time . ’ |
| 20 | Always had a most pleasant time . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm so glad , ’ Leith replied , knowing from the very few comments Rosemary had let drop that she must have gone through a most unhappy time before Derek had finally left . |
| 22 | ‘ Brassey 's renaissance comes at a most opportune time , ’ commented Maj.-Gen. |
| 23 | ‘ John Bryan was the surrogate father to them during a most impressionable time . |
| 24 | From just £6.95 a month the Sun Alliance Personal Accident Plan gives you the reassurance of large cash payments at a most difficult time — when you may no longer be able to earn a living yourself . |
| 25 | The continued energy , good humour and loyalty of the staff through a most difficult time have been a major strength to the Management Board and the Council |
| 26 | He may have been conducting a formal press conference in very informal dress at a most abnormal time . |
| 27 | There was a widely variable time from transplantation to the appearance of HBV markers in liver or serum , ranging from 6–331 days . |
| 28 | Two men were taking a suspiciously long time on a roof . |
| 29 | I rather like the Nimbus set , despite the generous acoustics and the occasional technical frailty , as not only has one the inestimable benefit of hearing the music shaped , balanced , and paced in a way that at least approximates the sort of thing Schubert originally had in mind , but they all sound as though they 're having such a jolly good time ( one palls at the though of all those ghastly , poe-faced Schubert records which litter the catalogue ) . |
| 30 | This jester-king was a hand-me-down from darker times when the blessings of the New Year were guaranteed by the sacrifice of the mock king after he had a jolly good time . |