Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is taking a long time . |
| 2 | This is taking a long time . |
| 3 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
| 4 | This was resolved a short time later when an unstable product of a short-term incubation of arachidonic acid with cyclo-oxygenase prepared from the vesicular gland of sheep was found to induce platelet aggregation ( Willis & Kuhn , 1973 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Farming in general was having a tough time , the prices of most traditional agricultural commodities were declining in real terms , farms were having to become much larger to remain economically viable and most commentators felt things were not going to get much better in the short term indeed most said they were going to get worse . ’ |