Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] a [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can remember having a really happy time with other relatives after her funeral . |
| 2 | I 'd like to spend a little more time with her than that . ’ |
| 3 | This can be contrasted with the centesimal scale where we may have to wait a fairly long time to ascertain the action of the remedy . |
| 4 | Those actively interested in diamonds will have to wait a very long time before they will be able to put their hands on these cosmic ornaments . |
| 5 | You mean I 'll have to wait a very long time . |
| 6 | I 'm not saying they 'd have been sucked down with the yacht but they might have had a rather uncomfortable time . ’ |
| 7 | You might have had a slightly harder time finding the money in 1965 than in 1964 , though . |
| 8 | If it had been Rime Giants following us we would have had a more difficult time of it ; they enjoy such conditions . |
| 9 | But he would have preferred Lord Halifax to Churchill as prime minister in 1940 and even in retrospect believed that the country would have fought the war better under Halifax and that the admirals and the generals would have had a less neurotic time . |
| 10 | It should have spent a little more time looking at the serious work being carried out by the Health Education Authority and less time on carping criticisms of the authority 's work . |
| 11 | Perhaps , if left for long enough girls may kill one another also , but it would have taken a far longer time to happen . |
| 12 | ‘ This is something I should 'ave done a very long time ago . |