Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I 'd lost you , ’ said Lucenzo almost fondly , when they found one another again after a long time . |
| 2 | Goebbels 's rousing ‘ total war ’ speech on 18 February 1943 stirred the Party faithful again for a short time . |
| 3 | Then they would have entered the conical shadow cast by the moon , and the stars would have become visible again for a brief time before the Lift sank beneath the surface itself and came to a standstill , its massive kinetic energy somehow conducted away from the lower terminus and stored in a way that Alex Bannen would have killed to learn . |
| 4 | 85% of the woodland area is dominated by mature trees , indicating that grazing has been heavy enough for a long time to Prevent sapling recruitment . |
| 5 | The 1st Shadwell Pack had been very busy indeed for a long time . |
| 6 | A worker-directed study conducted in the mid-1970s considered as temporary workers all who had a job which was available only for a limited time and all who were themselves available for their jobs for only a limited period of time . |
| 7 | And after that brief excursion into the mysterious tongue of her beloved she said very little else for a considerable time . |
| 8 | Pupils move from one station to the next either at a specified time or when they are ready . |
| 9 | Both the Shepherds were silent again for a long time , and in the tiny cellar Ho started shivering violently . |