Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] time the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a long time the boy crossed the road and said to Oliver , |
| 2 | After a long time the man came in and said , ‘ Mr Evans , please . ’ |
| 3 | After a long time the computer said slowly , ‘ Computer is old . ’ |
| 4 | After a short time the Duke of Grafton sold them the Rope Walk , a building where the old village craft had been carried out and where Ted Smith 's coach garage is now , and so they moved . |
| 5 | However , I did find that after a short time the material began to pill quite badly around the cuffs and down the front . |
| 6 | In the course of a short time the farmer was sufficiently restored to relate his own story , as already recited , and in gratitude for his miraculous escape ordered a silver collar to be made for his friendly protector , as a perpetual remembrance of the transaction . |
| 7 | For a limited time the Abbey National is offering 8.65 per cent — 9.4 per cent APR — fixed until the year 2000 . |
| 8 | Resentful at Alexander and fearful that the King might beget am heir by his new queen and so lose for a second time the opportunity to advance the claims of his own house ? |
| 9 | For a long time the boy maintained a defiant silence and did n't look at his father . |
| 10 | Signora Silvana Ciammarughi , the owner and creator of this unique establishment , nursed for a long time the dream of acquiring some old house of character , converting it and running it as a hotel . |
| 11 | For a long time the building was attributed to Inigo Jones , something people much enjoy doing . |
| 12 | For a long time the type remained quite insignificant , but in recent years the increasing attention has added many new varieties , and a few miniature standards are also now available . |
| 13 | In the modern Hebrew Bible all numbers are written out in full , but for a long time the text was written without vowels . |
| 14 | For a long time the standard has been stuck at 300 dots per inch — the eye can not resolve a single do smaller than this , or so the theory goes — but we are now beginning to see 400dpi , 600dpi and 800dpi printers . |
| 15 | For a long time the sound of the men chopping wood stayed with us . |
| 16 | One might call this ‘ applied phonology ’ ; however , the phonological analysis of different languages raises a great number of difficult and interesting theoretical problems , and for a long time the study of phonology ‘ for its own sake ’ has been regarded as an important area of theoretical linguistics . |
| 17 | For a long time the use of probabilistic information in linguistic systems has been frowned upon by the linguistic community . |
| 18 | For a long time the hardware available for handwriting recognition was such that the input would take place on a graphics tablet , while the visual feedback appeared on a monitor screen . |
| 19 | But Joseph had always been very devoted to any local news and for a long time the talk of the town had been the Cockermouth man — Fletcher Christian 's — Mutiny . |
| 20 | He loved life , and for a long time the force was with him . |
| 21 | For a long time the peat has been used as fuel by the more isolated farmers , or crofters , in the north-west . |
| 22 | Wordsworth continues to watch , but for a long time the figure refuses to move . |
| 23 | For a long time the lawyer called almost every day . |
| 24 | Probably the original intention was merely to contrast the procedure with that of a public inquiry ( where , of course , the inquiry is in full view of the public ) but for a long time the bogy of officials beavering away in private and then producing a report which damned some poor individual or organisation , without those officials being in any way accountable , was viewed with grave suspicion . |
| 25 | Yet for a long time the Cult of Pleasure was respectable and none connected it with the hidden worship of Chaos . |
| 26 | For example , for a short time the role of chairperson was delegated to a DCSL , and it was subsequently acknowledged that this was inappropriate , given the status and function of that position in the library service . |
| 27 | Accumulated errors were to be erased from the holy books , services were to be conducted in a more intelligible manner , sermons were to be encouraged , and scholarship was to be actively fostered in a number of monasteries ; at the same time , new saints were canonized , clergy and laity alike urged to observe the prescribed fasts , and for a brief time the government even went to the lengths of closing the taverns . |
| 28 | Something to do with a hundred times the amount is n't it . |
| 29 | If the buyer subsequently retains the goods without objection , it may be taken to have accepted the offer ; however , if within a reasonable time the buyer responds making clear that it does not accept the seller 's terms , it will make a counter offer and will not be bound by the seller 's terms . |
| 30 | If any such lien is not satisfied within a reasonable time the Carrier may at his absolute discretion sell the goods , or part thereof , as agent for the owner and apply the proceeds towards the monies due and the expenses of the retention , insurance and sale of the goods and shall , upon accounting to the Trader for any balance remaining , be discharged from all liability whatever in respect of the goods . |