Example sentences of "a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ True , but they have a pleasant time in the sun while they 're about it . |
| 2 | We hope you have had a pleasant time wherever you have been . |
| 3 | I 've got to say that I did enjoy this outing ; although the day began with a freezing start it warmed up later and I had a pleasant time working amongst the iron and other junk that abounds on the riverside . |
| 4 | If only they would come an hour earlier , and erm spend erm a pleasant time in their cars erm on the car park having a picnic before they go in , they would save themselves an awful lot of , of , of hassle . |
| 5 | It is embarrassing being young and wanting to be more liberated than you are , yet not being , and pretending to be more liberated than you are , or that you 're having a racier time . |
| 6 | 8 : As for high level wastes , no-one has demonstrated ( can they ? ) how these wastes can be safely isolated and guarded for the necessary one million years — a geological time span reaching out to our 40,000th generation … |
| 7 | I tried to show in chapter 4 that such events may have happened , on a geological time scale , very quickly indeed . |
| 8 | Ascot and Windsor race meetings in the twenties were a trying time for the respectable county town of Reading . |
| 9 | It was a trying time ‘ or it nearly was . |
| 10 | A trying time for the resource person . |
| 11 | ‘ Monday : The beginning of the show is often a trying time because of latecomers . |
| 12 | Without wishing to understate what was surely a trying time for some students , I shall make two further points . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's been a trying time , warming up to opening . |
| 14 | Mind you , he 'd probably been through a sticky time . |
| 15 | The agency account man must have had a sticky time explaining that one to the client . |
| 16 | Well if ever there was a right time it was now . |
| 17 | It seemed a right time , a right moment to ask Shama another question which had been haunting me . |
| 18 | 113 Is There A Right Time To Buy A Car ? |
| 19 | IS THERE A RIGHT TIME TO BUY A CAR ? |
| 20 | But since then , there has never seemed to be a right time . |
| 21 | but there 's a right time and a wrong time for doing it , see cos basically if you were getting the money , the phone calls that were , that were done a since Christmas right , I 'm not sure how the bill runs , it probably runs December , January , February er I think they run a quarter on the phone bill , and its a three month period |
| 22 | Yes the best if there was a dry time a dry stack , they kept that very best but for the calf beds , both for the bothy and the house . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I actually do believe baby requires a little time on her own . ’ |
| 25 | It is worth spending a little time to ponder the significance of this . |
| 26 | This kind of bravura performance is only legitimate if the context and music allow the dancer to ‘ steal a little time ’ . |
| 27 | It will take a little time for me to forget the hurt and the disappointment … |
| 28 | It takes me a little time to get calm again . |
| 29 | Its very upsetting in more ways than one and an awkward time for a change of priests so Fr John will want just a little time to settle in and feel at home . |
| 30 | There was a long pause , the kind of pause that winners always display as they create a little time to savour their victory . |