Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hard-top even uses the same mechanisms and can be attached or removed in a similar time . |
| 2 | Mallender than struck for a third time when Miandad could not resist one which moved away a little , Stewart gloving it with ease : 64 for 3 . |
| 3 | Like the plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs , they were successful and varied for a long time , but all three groups failed to survive the Cretaceous . |
| 4 | Its format is usually standard , though much of the information collected and reported at a particular time may not be relevant to current development issues . |
| 5 | They walked through the gardens together and talked for a long time . |
| 6 | Oliver was deeply grateful for this offer of shelter and talked for a long time with his new friend . |
| 7 | Kee told her about his life and talked for a long time about the old Haiti and the people he remembered . |
| 8 | ( i ) Of course , when A = Z and ρ is multiplication , the above merely repeats results we 've known and used for a long time . |
| 9 | When he 'd gone I lay and thought for a long time about poor young Mr Vickers , and of what I should have told Doone , and had n't . |
| 10 | The solution is to make use to layers to separate out the drawing into smaller sections that can be worked on and redrawn in a reasonable time . |
| 11 | ‘ I was thinking , ’ he said , then spooned some more of the green-brown mixture into his face and chewed for a long time . |
| 12 | Such an application shall be refused unless made within a reasonable time and will not be granted where the party applying has taken any step in the proceedings after knowledge of the irregularity . |
| 13 | Ruby straddled a child 's moped and , as though mounted on a Wellsian Time Machine , skilfully manoeuvred into the heavy traffic on Cromwell Road . |
| 14 | He had maintained that position when asked for a third time after being put into an ambulance . |