Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | HAYDN-LOVERS are in for a good time this autumn : coming up are the Haydn at Esterhaza concerts at the Wigmore Hall ( part of the Magyarok Britain Salutes Hungary Festival ) ; already on display is the Haydn and England exhibition at the British Library ; and just started is the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment 's QEH Haydn series concentrating on his late choral works . |
| 2 | We are in for a tough time . ’ |
| 3 | No , Lindsey told herself , as she showered and slipped into a warm towelling robe , it had actually been over for a long time . |
| 4 | We 're in for a rough time , Marcus . |
| 5 | ‘ It looks as though we 're in for a tough time ! ’ |
| 6 | Otherwise , they 're in for a grim time of it . |
| 7 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 8 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 9 | Ed was just like a one off and I 'm not forward any more at all and , you know , everyone thinks I am you know and Pete thought right I 'm in for a good time here , you know , I can probably get her you know , and so Charlie would have to carry out his part . |
| 10 | Michel thinks she will be in for a bad time when she realizes it . |
| 11 | On the other hand if you 've important business or vital meetings to attend you will be in for a tough time . |
| 12 | So far as I can see , unless there are fundamental changes in the British economy , the recession ai n't going to be over for a considerable time because the economy is in such a state . |
| 13 | So Eddie knows the real Delia Forbes has gone away and wo n't be back for a long time … but so what ? ’ |
| 14 | The bond which had drawn them so close before Angel 's birth was strong and sometimes Sarah longed to be back for a brief time in that dilapidated house in Stone Alley , free of the sanctimonious atmosphere of the rectory , until she remembered Maggie was n't there any more either . |
| 15 | It will be around for a long time . |
| 16 | She 'll be around for a long time yet . ’ |
| 17 | REGARDLESS of how much longer Norman Lamont survives at No 11 , his Budget will be around for a long time . |
| 18 | Of Records , Laurie Bruce writes : ‘ Many people are giving up records for cassettes or compact discs – a great mistake as records will be around for a long time to come . |
| 19 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 20 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 21 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 22 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 23 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 24 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 25 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 26 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 27 | Is this a new disease , something we 've discovered recently , or has it been around for a long time ? |
| 28 | LONG ago , on dark nights when storms lashed the treacherous coastline , wreckers knew they were in for a busy time . |
| 29 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 30 | ‘ No point , our lights were out for a long time , they 'd just use that as an excuse . |