Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [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 | Thou hast done wonders in a little time , not only made a rake a husband but thou has made a rake a preacher . |
| 14 | They lasted all too shortly — maybe a fortnight or so — before they needed to be recharged , and they always seemed to fade at a crucial time , in the middle of your favourite programme . |
| 15 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She was much happier person because this this she 'd threatened to do for a long time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So we all got very excited because it was the first money we 'd spent for a long time . |
| 20 | The phone seemed to ring for a long time . |
| 21 | For example , it may instruct its members to go-slow or work-to-rule or it may call for selective strikes ( in which certain groups of workers stop working for a specified time period ) ; or all the union members may be called out on a one-day strike . |
| 22 | This achieves much more in the long run than attempting to concentrate for a long time until fatigue sets in . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Not only are peak users paying for the high marginal costs they impose , but also those users who would not mind consuming at a different time ( e.g. households with night storage heaters , who can use electricity at a time when marginal costs are low ) are induced by cheaper prices to switch to consuming at off-peak times . |
| 25 | Is there anybody else please who 's going to live for a long time ? |
| 26 | The advantage to the bank is that it has the use of a deposit for a fixed period , but , because of the flexibility given to the lender , at a slightly lower price than it would have had to pay for a normal time deposit . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've been waiting to move for a long time , and we need the money to build the new house . ’ |
| 28 | To avoid inconvenience it may be scheduled to run at a specific time when LIFESPAN itself is not required . |
| 29 | Once the presence of a carcass has been directly or indirectly detected , they glide down to it rapidly , and large numbers of vultures are thus enabled to assemble in a short time . |
| 30 | ‘ I remember thinking for a long time afterwards that it must have been Uncle Titch 's , ’ said William , and Preston stared at him in astonishment , shocked not so much by the thought of Uncle Titch and Mary Moxton in carnal embrace as by this sudden insight into William 's dark imaginings . |