Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have to wait for a more opportune time , she decided , and replaced the receiver . |
| 2 | I literally stopped seeing for a very long time . |
| 3 | It 's been arranged for a very long time . ’ |
| 4 | Once he is asleep , he sleeps for a very long time — thousands of years in fact . |
| 5 | It seems that human attention can only be sustained for a very limited time by any subject , even the prospects of its own destruction . |
| 6 | The couple wanted to thank friends and relatives for the ‘ tremendous support they had given during a pretty rough time ’ . |
| 7 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 8 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 9 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 10 | The important debate in my opinion that we shall have this Committee stage and it is for that reason and also because for four-and-a-half years which I think is regarded as a very long time , I was answerable for police affairs er with the Home Secretary in another place , as the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan will remember , many years ago , it goes back to January nineteen fifty-eight when I became Under Secretary and he was political advisor to the Police Federation and we very rarely disagreed I 'm happy to say . |
| 11 | This effect persists for a relatively long time , and as there is a specific relationship between the stimuli and the responses , it is regarded as a genuine form of associative learning . |
| 12 | ‘ He quit after a fairly short time — I think he may have done it for only two terms . |
| 13 | But then he had already had enough to keep him and many others occupied for a very long time . |
| 14 | In England this power has for a very long time been delegated , so far as barristers are concerned , to the Inns of Court : and , for a much shorter time , so far as solicitors are concerned , to the Law Society . |
| 15 | I understood what I had seen in the dream when I learned the words " gaberdine " and " mahogany " ; and I was born in the year of the New Look , understood by 1951 and the birth of my sister , that dresses needing twenty yards for a skirt were items as expensive as children — more expensive really , because after 1948 babies came relatively cheap , on tides of free milk and orange juice , but good cloth in any quantity was hard to find for a very long time . |
| 16 | If you , if you wait for a report from a salesman , you can wait for a very long time , the only piece of paper he really likes filling in is called an expense sheet . |
| 17 | Yet ironically , recent government policies have created a situation where more and more prisoners serving life and other long sentences have rather less to lose , for it has now been decreed that various categories of serious offender will not normally be considered for parole , or not considered for a very long time ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 18 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 19 | ‘ Many people with this disease are able to continue to work for a very long time and there is no evidence to suggest that her condition and the error are necessarily linked . ’ |
| 20 | We 've got to look at it in those terms , and so it is not necessary in my submission for anyone to prove at the moment there is at least five thousand dwellings short , erm that that is something which ought to be considered over a much longer time period . |
| 21 | ‘ Now , Adam , ’ she re-entered the kitchen with her chin tilted defiantly upward and a challenging glint in her tawny eyes , ‘ what 's so important that it could n't wait till a more reasonable time of day ? ’ |
| 22 | The eve of the second anniversary of Maxwell 's death could n't have come at a more crucial time for the pensioners who travelled to London today . |
| 23 | I felt … well , the offer could n't have come at a more opportune time , could it ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't think of a more opportune time , ’ said the Loremaster . |
| 25 | Her face looked anguished as if she had been secretly angry and victimized for a very long time and it was just beginning to seep out . |
| 26 | They did n't speak for a very long time . |
| 27 | Some have been living for a disconcertingly long time in museums ; but once doubted , the evidence of inadequacy in a fake is quite often soon in coming . |
| 28 | They had the easy familiarity of two people who knew each other very well indeed , and had done for a very long time . |
| 29 | The inflation in the early stages of the universe , which the no boundary proposal predicts , means that the universe must be expanding at very close to the critical rate at which it would just avoid recollapse , and so will not recollapse for a very long time . |
| 30 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |