Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | After leaving the magazine , Caroline worked for a short time in the Cardiff newsroom . |
| 32 | Senna struggled for a long time with what he later described as an undriveable car and he collided with Germany 's Michael Schumacher after 40 of the 72 laps . |
| 33 | Senna struggled for a long time with what he later described as an undriveable car and he collided with Germany 's Michael Schumacher after 40 of the 72 laps . |
| 34 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Copeland ( Dr. Cunninghan ) said , the Secretary of State spoke for a long time — until about 6 o'clock . |
| 35 | But the old Jew sat for a long time in silence as the wind and rain in the darkness outside lashed at the windows of Damiani 's old home . |
| 36 | ‘ Was n't I the best prospect Bermondsey 'ad for a long time before I got me wound ? ’ he asked . |
| 37 | The crowd lingers for a long time , until it 's almost dark . |
| 38 | The geographical concentration of the relatively high per capita income services — especially in finance — in London and the South East has for a long time been a feature of the British economy [ Brown , 1972 ] . |
| 39 | Patients were still taking omeprazole when they had the tests done for a second time . |
| 40 | The men talked for a long time . |
| 41 | As this transistor conducts for a fixed time , dictated by the winding time constant , it may be switched from a fixed-period monostable circuit triggered by tile phase excitation signal . |
| 42 | These considerations lead lenders to charge different rates for the same amount loaned for a given time period to , say , the government , a commercial company and a private individual . |
| 43 | Chola went for a third time to fetch some water from the river while Mina and Kāli set to work on the outside of the house . |
| 44 | If the situation lasts for a long time with no sign of improvement , you should discuss the future very carefully with the doctor or hospital specialist , rather than trying to cope in a hopeless situation which can not resolve itself . |
| 45 | This county pays for a full time union official this is extravagant , one full timer for five hundred members , that is way over the top let me tell you . |
| 46 | Have n't had my hand kissed for a long time . ’ |
| 47 | The society 's charitable project soon got round the underworld , and in January 1773 they had a card hung in Westminster Jail stating that their charity was likely to be imposed upon ‘ by artful and designing villains who cause themselves to be arrested and imprisoned a day before the Society makes a distribution and thus come in for relief designed for the Poor distressed debtors imprisoned for a long time . ‘ |
| 48 | However , many excess mortgage allowance schemes run for a shorter time , for instance , for five or seven years . |
| 49 | ‘ Rohan felt for a long time — a tug of loyalty between his grandfather , and the de Rochefort family . |
| 50 | ‘ I have n't played guitar synth live for a long time , but what I use is a Photon MIDI converter , which I actually got about two weeks ago ; I put it on one of my Steinberger guitars . |
| 51 | Yesterday the deputy principal , Alan Dixon , said the college has earmarked between £15,000 and £20,000 each year to pay for a full time teacher at the Adult Basic Education Unit . |
| 52 | As was noted in Chapter 4 , local education authorities have for a long time had a duty to provide special education for handicapped children . |
| 53 | When they had eaten their meal of wheat ro is and milk they kept the fire going for a long time . |
| 54 | If the long and complex passage of Athenaeus 6 ( 273a–275b ) , which Felix Jacoby gives as fragment 59 , can be considered a trustworthy summary of Posidonius ' views about Roman civilization , two features emerge : ( a ) the Romans preserved for a long time their extreme simplicity of life ; ( b ) in that long period they learnt many techniques from various foreigners ( Greeks , Etruscans , Samnites and Iberians ) and their constitutional principles from the Spartans . |
| 55 | The Princess found herself pigeon holed for a long time as a result of those early associations , but they were nevertheless a useful apprenticeship . |
| 56 | Delighted about Jim , apprehensive for Jasper , Alice lay for a long time awake in the silent room . |
| 57 | Sporting Sir John married for a third time but the new Lady Pryce refused to play second — or , perhaps , third — fiddle and insisted that the embalmed bodies in the moribund harem be removed . |
| 58 | In his first policy statement as President , Nujoma on March 21 promised to redress the distortions of the apartheid economy , and appeared to assuage fears of the white minority and potential Western aid donors by rejecting the idea of large-scale nationalization , which SWAPO had for a long time held to be a cornerstone of its Marxist ideology . |
| 59 | Designed to combine all the tools required for a real time emergency or training simulation , EIS provides full colour facility maps , data sheets , key personnel details and ensures effective communication between operation centres faces with a chemical release . |
| 60 | Moran sat for a long time . |