Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any scheme which attempts to remain stable over an extended time period will in some sense be a compromise . |
| 2 | Okay you wo n't need to know that for a long time yet anyway will you . |
| 3 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
| 4 | It is only extinguished or " barred " because the claim it gives to land has been allowed to remain unpressed for a long time in face of a rival title … the effect of the Act is to eliminate . |
| 5 | Moreover , the present study indicated that the syn-PLA2 and cat-PLA2 values of patients with a necrotising form of acute pancreatitis had a tendency to remain increased for a longer time than the values in patients with oedematous acute pancreatitis . |
| 6 | Erm if they , if you 've got a heavy mortgage , and I 'm not suggesting that many of you will have a heavy mortgage , it 's not a bad thing when you 're retiring to fix a rate , because we 've not been able to do that for a long time . |
| 7 | And you had to plough that within a certain time . |
| 8 | We can now see that Oulton 's art has followed a wilfully individual path , avoiding too close an association with any fashionable cause , and managing to remain relevant in a trecherous time . |
| 9 | I 've been meaning to say this for a long time , ’ said Susan , with an assumption of severity which moved her sister to ribald mirth . |
| 10 | I 've been wanting to say this for a long time . ’ |
| 11 | My idea was partly to make sure of a good time , as I have always had there , and partly to set the tone for my future articles . |