Example sentences of "[modal v] have [to-vb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos it 'd have to take a long time . |
| 2 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 3 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
| 4 | ‘ Then they may have to wait a long time . |
| 5 | Is she making a promise to the British people that this improvement will be financed by an increase in taxation , or that , just as the Conservative Government have always aspired to improve that target , so will a Labour Government , and the British people will have to wait a long time for such an improvement to materialise ? |