Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the lamp remains on for a longer time it is possible that the incorrect outer ( track ) connection to the rotary potentiometer VR2 has been used . |
| 2 | You had to be in at a certain time you know , you had very standard cuisine , it was , it had become if you like , ridiculed in jokes and things of this nature . |
| 3 | He is a union member and he was aware of all the advantages of belonging to a union but somehow for a long time it never occurred to me how to get it all started , how it was possible . |
| 4 | Put as simply as possible the hypothesis is : — From the start of life up to a certain time which is designated the Dawn of Civilisation , ‘ goodness ’ was being created from one source only , that source being the endless stream of infinitely small but favourable evolutionary changes or events , producing an infinite number of minute units of what , by virtue of its favourable nature , has been termed ‘ goodness ’ , the outcome of each favourable event being regarded as one unit . |
| 5 | Now in a short time he would be gone , and the era that had begun in the 1960S with the triumvirate of Harold Wilson , George Brown and myself would be at an end . |
| 6 | ‘ Maybe for a short time somebody takes a free course at the great university of misery , and pays attention to the things he sees with his eyes and hears with his ears . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ She told the doctor at the orphanage , ‘ If I 'm going to go to England for a short time I must be careful not to give too much of my love , but if I 'm going to be there for a long time I can give all the love I can ’ , ’ Mike says . |
| 8 | Then after a long time I got up with the help of a friend . |
| 9 | On that day we became friends , yet for a long time I kept my distance , afraid even to shake hands with him . |
| 10 | Yet for a short time his arrival at Oxford threw him back on the hunkers of his class and family . |