Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [be] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , even if it were not missing , manual manipulation of large numbers of records is a very time consuming task , and hardly one that the recruitment team will have time to do during busy periods . |
| 2 | ‘ I expect that to be the same this time , but a fortnight away from Russia is a long time and things change so quickly , ’ said the bespectacled runner . |
| 3 | But he wrote to Hanns ‘ Do n't worry about conditions here : although they can be grim , I 've known them a lot grimmer in S.A. ’ He declared that ‘ being new in London is a full time job ’ and described the town rhapsodically as |
| 4 | They say a week in politics is a long time and I now know what they mean . |
| 5 | But the reason we , unlike the Americans , have no telephones on planes is largely because a consensus on frequencies was a long time coming . |
| 6 | N. Skating with the team at Bury was a good time ? |
| 7 | Lying in bed at night is a perfect time for scanning our brain for those things we might have forgotten . |