Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a wide ranging and at times overtly anti-communist speech , described by the Guardian of March 30 as " more measured and specific than any he has given for a long time " , Yeltsin pilloried central government policy , labelling perestroika the " last phase of the stagnation period " . |
| 2 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
| 3 | Nobody stops learning , but at only 15st I 'm the fastest heavyweight the world has seen in a long time . ’ |
| 4 | Any object that an individual has had for a long time , a favourite book for example , has already been affected by that individual 's electrical impulses . |
| 5 | If a neutral event has occurred within a certain time of an already important event , if it was of a certain category and if another of the same category had not been interposed between it and the important event , then that event itself acquires significance for the animal . |
| 6 | ‘ Jason Donovan has known for a long time that The Face is not rich , and we have repeatedly offered to apologise unreservedly for the article , ’ the statement added . |
| 7 | ‘ Jason Donovan has known for a long time that The Face is not rich , and we have repeatedly offered to apologise unreservedly for the article , ’ the statement added . |
| 8 | The art ( therapy ? ) of Reflexology is founded on the principle that massaging the feet can affect the health of other parts of the body , a fact which acupuncture has known for a long time . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's probably the most important match either team has faced for a long time . |
| 10 | The judgements that have to be made are complex , not least because local government has existed for a long time and the opportunities for building up capital or depleting it have been great . |
| 11 | Mont Blanc , to be sure , has existed for a long time , and probably will exist for a while yet , but it does not work to stay in existence . |
| 12 | That the miller 's knives substitute for his sexual potency rather than reflect it is indicated by the superiority of the clerk 's performance in bed with his wife to anything he has managed for a long time : He has fathered two children , but , like Bayard , his sexual energy is now exhausted . |
| 13 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 14 | Our team lost the game by 125 runs , but they reckoned overall it was the most enjoyable day 's cricket they 'd had in a long time . |
| 15 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 16 | So we all got very excited because it was the first money we 'd spent for a long time . |
| 17 | When TV Times readers voted Crawford 1973 's Funniest Man on TV in the magazine 's Top 10 Awards , it confirmed the phenomenal success that Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em had become in a short time . |
| 18 | In Peking 's eyes , the Nobel Peace Prize could not have come at a worse time . |
| 19 | It could scarcely have come at a worse time . |
| 20 | This could not have come at a worse time , with the prospect in view of becoming an ‘ officer 's lady ’ . |
| 21 | For the CEGB , trying to sell nuclear reliability to an increasingly sceptical local population , this could hardly have come at a worse time . |
| 22 | She could not have come at a worse time ; a few hours after she arrived , she was a helpless burning hulk , with most of her passengers and crew dead . |
| 23 | It could not have come at a worse time for the Royal Family , almost on the eve of the wedding of Princess Anne to Commander Tim Laurence . |
| 24 | I 'm afraid it could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 25 | But he gave her a smouldering glance and said , ‘ This change in the weather could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 26 | ‘ In many ways , it could not have come at a worse time because the selectors are obviously considering alternatives after the defeat at Old Trafford and I would like to think I would be one of them . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time . |
| 28 | The invitation could not have come at a better time . |
| 29 | For Sinton , who made his England debut in Poznan in the crucial final qualifier against Poland last November and was a member of the England B side that defeated France B at Loftus Road in February , that run could not have come at a better time . |
| 30 | And the announcement of the engagement could not have come at a better time for the battle-weary Royal Family . |