Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each month lots were drawn for the names of the next families to leave , and the fortunate ones were given only a short time to make their final preparations . |
| 2 | I loved him , as much as an alien can entertain love for a being on a green planet where she knows she has only a certain time . |
| 3 | They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story . |
| 4 | He moved over a long time ago from playing an SG Standard and an ES-345 when he found his beloved fixed-bridge ‘ 64 Stratocaster , which is standard apart from an extra treble-boost toggle switch . |
| 5 | But we do talk and what I know is you are essentially a decent and totally wonderful human being and I 'll hang around a long time for you . |
| 6 | However , this does not persist over a long time scale and is often not to be observed at all . |
| 7 | A spokesman for Hampshire police said : ‘ It seems Mrs Soper died and then her husband passed away a short time later . |
| 8 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 9 | Part of the reporting and accountability process is filling in a monthly time sheet which reinforces the emphasis on tasks . |
| 10 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 11 | Some students find it best to set aside a regular time each week ( perhaps at the weekend ) to file all the notes taken during the previous week . |
| 12 | There had been windows on the westerly side of the school , but they appeared to have been built up a long time , judging from the appearance of the workmanship on the outside . |
| 13 | And secondly , we 'll be able to sort out a reasonable time for getting her home . |
| 14 | Charles drove out a short time later back to Highgrove . |
| 15 | Rattling in the chest ; every cold goes to the chest or nose and the catarrh hangs on a long time . |
| 16 | Literally speaking , ephemera are things that last only a day ; in the more accepted sense , things destined to endure only a short time ; but , by a curious paradox , in the most modern sense , things which have , in fact , long survived their predestined span . |
| 17 | Hayling 's dummy had been a marathon performance over months , whilst Sutton had had only a short time and few people . |
| 18 | Usually he can spend only a limited time at one session in the tasting room as his work involves so much keen concentration . |
| 19 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 20 | Many of us have a special tune or song that conjures up a particular time and place whenever we hear it , or brings back a flood of memories , but we may have no way of celebrating it . |
| 21 | If the car was still moving , police could work out a safe time and location to intercept it . |
| 22 | well that 's going back a long time , is n't it ? |
| 23 | ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed . |
| 24 | And that I think , I feel is one of the loopholes in the Sale of Goods Act , because it does n't lay down a definite time limit . |
| 25 | In such circumstances , if the Bank wishes to sell the stock it is holding over a reasonable time period , it will often be unable to avoid reducing its price . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 28 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |
| 29 | The feeding process takes quite a long time , depending of course on the sizes of the individuals concerned and various environmental factors , such as temperature ( see p. 303 ) . |
| 30 | Erm something they tell you throughout the , it takes quite a long time . |