Example sentences of "too [adv] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too long a time with any one of the above steps of the sequence would only serve to emphasise their ignorance , whereas variety offers opportunity for different kinds of engagement . |
| 2 | Is three years too long a time , particularly for males in their 40s ? |
| 3 | Or it may be that you are not introducing enough variety in your activities , either always doing things in the same few ways , or else doing the same activity for too long a time at one stretch . |
| 4 | He held her in his arms , still and warm , and after a while in that darkness he felt as though he held nothing at all ; it was like when a limb , having been left in the same position for too long a time , somehow loses all reference to the body , and for those instants before some willed movement the very location and attitude of that arm or leg is quite unknown . |
| 5 | In an article in Nature , Susan Solomon and Daniel Albritton of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration argue that policy makers may have been using too long a time scale to measure the destructive potential of CFCs , halons and their substitutes . |
| 6 | Gibeau felt that we had had too easy a time of it at Canjuers and for the last three days introduced a new punishment . |
| 7 | I am giving Gittel-plus-nine much too easy a time . |
| 8 | Verbal presentations often fail because the speaker tries to cram too much into too short a time , or goes on for far too long . |
| 9 | The Builder commented that the submission date of 1st February , 1857 gave too short a time and that it was a mistake to divide the competition into three parts . |
| 10 | Yet retrospectively he envied the Mallory children their hardships — the shared beds , the shoes that pinched , the heaps of washing , the inconvenience of too many babies in too short a time , the lack of privacy , the meagre pocket-money , the quarrels and tears , because with these things went other things infinitely precious , laughter and love , tenderness and the joy of living , things signally missing from his own childhood . |
| 11 | The premature termination of breastfeeding that typically occurs when conception follows a birth in too short a time contributes to inadequate nutrition of the weaned child and explains , at least in part , the morbidity ( and mortality ) levels among children in the second year of life . |
| 12 | After what seemed like all too short a time John gave way to the legendary Brush Shiels , who delivered his unique show to a packed downstairs hall . |
| 13 | Too much had happened in too short a time . |
| 14 | As we said in Committee , eight years seems too short a time for the college to capitalise on experience gained by individual members . |
| 15 | Some children had received a laxative , and when given , it was either given in minimal dose or given for too short a time . |
| 16 | In 1910 the German one was a tiny organisation with a staff of only three ; while in 1913 the head of its Italian equivalent pressed strongly for it to be run by journalists rather than diplomats , since the latter usually stayed too short a time in Rome to establish the necessary good relations with newspapers and correspondents . |
| 17 | With a compulsion to work that must have been almost the equal of that of Van Gogh , he plunged into print-making and in too short a time had effectively burnt himself out . |
| 18 | Erm , I doubt if you 'll get too hard a time from us . |
| 19 | Erm , I 'd like to welcome you to the Industrial Training Board , I spent about four and a half years with training scheme , and I actually originated in er , engineering , so er , I 've got a long track record , perhaps of training and er , an even long track record working , so I wo n't give you too hard a time . |