Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are we going out a third time ? |
| 2 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 3 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 4 | We stood there a long time watching , heads tipped back , neck muscles beginning to ache . |
| 5 | We stayed there a long time , until well after midnight . |
| 6 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |
| 7 | We have perhaps a little time . |
| 8 | If the ERM continues to impose on this country an unemployment rate 750,000 above what it would otherwise be — and that is the average for Europe — we have only a short time before the racist and neo-fascist plague descends on us also — which is why launching the Anti-Racist Alliance was so urgent . |