Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the " Big Book " of Alcoholics Anonymous , written a mere four years after the birth of that Fellowship , says " to be gravely affected , one does not necessarily have to drink a long time , nor take the quantities some of us have . " |
| 2 | We had a beautiful Spring holiday on the Beauly Firth , and could not have chosen a better time to be there , with all the different kinds of foliage on the hillsides , and the spring flowers on the banks . |
| 3 | He started up twenty years ago , he could not have picked a better time . |
| 4 | But we also remember how that was n't sustained , and the cynical political fix of the Tories a few months later , that for the moment has coped with the government 's political crisis , and temporarily has bought a little time for a few pits . |
| 5 | If I really had to spend a long time hurting someone slowly , I 'd have to use a blindfold : them or me , one of us would have to have their eyes hidden . |
| 6 | It does n't have to take a long time , it 's up to us here and now . |
| 7 | SINEAD Donaghy could n't have chosen a better time to score her first goal of the season . |
| 8 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
| 9 | Both he and Amiss had spent a considerable time comforting Sunil , who had been throwing up on and off for over an hour . |
| 10 | The fans up there have waited a long time . |