Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This compact mill now forms a fascinating time capsule and gives a valuable insight into the life and workings of a small country mill in years gone by . |
| 2 | Unconfirmed reservations marked red on the chart usually have a three-week time limit hold period . |
| 3 | It seems clear , however that the initial cancellation only added a short time to the eventual arrival of the ambulance . |
| 4 | Wings , tail unit , undercarriage , radiators and other sundry items were sent out to various workshops of the ‘ warbird ’ industry , but the team still needed a full time project leader . |
| 5 | The other dealers then had a tough time explaining his absence to his erstwhile clients , but one or two told the truth . |
| 6 | If , however , a bond only has a short time left to maturity , it will be much more liquid : its market price will be near its face value . |
| 7 | Amazing , is n't it — despite all those contamination problems that have hit various recent models of IBM Corp 's mainframe disk drives , according to Electronic News , the things still boast a mean time between failures of two to three million hours — they 're must be a lot of irked users wondering just who it is that is happily storing and retrieving data on their hours . |
| 8 | The event also provides a good time for parents to see evidence of the caring nature of the school and gain a flavour of the ethos and quality of relationships . |
| 9 | Bladder control at night sometimes happens a long time after control in the day , and as with daytime training , it 's best to wait until a child shows signs of being able to develop control . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I think people just have a good time watching all the stunts . |
| 11 | Our prospective visitor bowed to the inevitable and wrote to us : ‘ Owing to procedure for obtaining a visa usually taking a long time it seems impossible to start our work at the date you suggested . |
| 12 | No-one very serious about anyone else , just a crowd of friends all having a good time , walking up the mountain on a lovely day , drinking the spring water and having a picnic . |
| 13 | In addition , deictic locations always have to be specified with respect to the location of a participant at coding time , i.e. place deixis always incorporates a covert time deixis element , while the converse is not true . |
| 14 | ‘ It must be said that many Christian men still have a hard time seeing women 's issues as their issues too , ’ said Bishop Edmond Browning , Anglican Primate in the USA . |
| 15 | At the time I had no other reason to come home , but when I heard my mother only had a short time left it was the only place I wanted to be . ’ |
| 16 | Victims frequently took a long time to die , often very unpleasantly . |