Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one end is the minimalist approach , which postulates that the narrower the field the greater the likelihood that the project will be successfully completed within a reasonable time . |
| 2 | Watching the Trooper disappear up the road , I reckon it could go on trooping for a long time yet at the right price , with very little needing doing . |
| 3 | There is a similar departure from the notion of a fixed sequence of modes of production and their corresponding political and cultural forms in recent works which concentrate their attention upon specific types of political regime which do not necessarily fall within a single time span . |
| 4 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 5 | We thank you for the patience and good humour you have all shown during a difficult time . |
| 6 | One of the problems is the initial guarantee often looks attractive but only lasts for a short time . |
| 7 | This regular pattern only continues for a short time , and after about eight hours , the embryo is a blastula comprising a hollow ball of about 1000 cells . |
| 8 | Seeds may be collected but be quick as they only float for a short time . |
| 9 | The kind of music she had not heard for a long time . |
| 10 | We recommend that future project initiatives of this kind should give much more thought to the structures and procedures , both within project schools and at the level of overall planning and coordination which are required to ensure that initiatives are not confined to a particular time period or grant , and that the inservice implications of good practice resulting from the project are capitalised upon . |
| 11 | ‘ Lifetime ’ partners do not refer to a finite time period but to partners since first sexual intercourse ‘ so far ’ ; this may be the most inaccurate measure because of difficulties of recall , whereas discrepancies over shorter time intervals are much smaller . |
| 12 | Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time . |
| 13 | These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate . |
| 14 | Alternatively , he or she may have a self-imposed rule not to drink before a certain time of day or on particular days , weeks or months or even years . |
| 15 | Lions are strong but can not run for a long time . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've not played for a long time and to get a goal in the first ten minutes was incredible . |
| 17 | He simply hopes they will emerge of their own accord , and this may not happen for a considerable time . |
| 18 | There is no necessary link between tense and time ; it is likely in this instance that the use of the present tense is not restricted to a particular time ( which is the time of the utterance ) but refers rather to a " general " present . |
| 19 | One enterprising station-master frequently told all passengers that their trains would not leave for a long time . |
| 20 | In this case , Lord Denning distinguished Bartlett v Sidney Marcus ( 1965 ) by explaining that if a car does not go for a reasonable time and the engine breaks up , this is evidence to show that the car was not fit for its purpose when sold . |
| 21 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 22 | If Libya did not comply within a short time period , the USA , Britain and France would seek UN endorsement for sanctions . |
| 23 | ‘ I understand how you feel , ’ said the old lady kindly , ‘ but the guests wo n't notice you much , and you can easily escape after a short time . ’ |
| 24 | It was not created at a good time for ballet music and these scores are relentlessly trivial . |
| 25 | Anyway , we thought it would be suitably ironic and some sort of justice for having been booted off the Argent tour to cover that song , especially as Argent have not existed for a long time . |
| 26 | Susie did not reply for a long time . |
| 27 | The difference of about two years is significant since , as I understand it , an application lapses if not implemented within a certain time . |
| 28 | If the transaction goes ahead in contravention of s320 , or if shareholder approval is not obtained within a reasonable time afterwards , the company may rescind the contract and recover any assets transferred under it . |
| 29 | If so an embargo can be employed to make sure that the material is not published before a certain time . |
| 30 | I realised that that was an absurdity … after the evidence that India could not be part of the same political system , I still believed for a short time that an Empire of positions — that is to say the possession of points of communication around the globe — gave a significance to this country and a tenable and lasting position . |