Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [art] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 If you , if you wait for a report from a salesman , you can wait for a very long time , the only piece of paper he really likes filling in is called an expense sheet .
2 HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body .
3 ‘ Now , Adam , ’ she re-entered the kitchen with her chin tilted defiantly upward and a challenging glint in her tawny eyes , ‘ what 's so important that it could n't wait till a more reasonable time of day ? ’
4 ‘ I ca n't think of a more opportune time , ’ said the Loremaster .
5 They did n't speak for a very long time .
6 The inflation in the early stages of the universe , which the no boundary proposal predicts , means that the universe must be expanding at very close to the critical rate at which it would just avoid recollapse , and so will not recollapse for a very long time .
7 In other words , they have been allowed to grow and multiply for a sufficiently long time to produce large numbers of cells .
8 ‘ Hopefully we can stay in the there this time , ’ added Wood , mindful that Britain were forced into qualifying after defeat by unsung Finland meant they were relegated last year from the elite nations .
9 What I will tell you , and I will tell for the very first time , is that I personally dealt with people whose future may well have been considered under the terms of the AMO .
10 ‘ Basically , someone has to take a stand now otherwise all the single-teacher schools in the Borders could go in a very short time , ’ declared the association chairman , Annmarie Crowe , of St Abbs , yesterday .
11 ‘ It might seem like an awful long time to be working on a debut album , but we 're were n't going to be rushed , ’ says Dermot .
12 The loss of important relationships and retirement from a job , with its easy access to daytime companionship and the outside world , can also come at a particularly vulnerable time in life .
13 It can come at the least expected time as , indeed , can the end of the world and the Second Coming of Jesus .
14 Laboratory experiments can only last for a relatively short time , and have to be held within the confines of the laboratory .
15 And the reverberations of that shared theory may last for a very long time , long after the institution which was its natural concomitant in day-to-day social practices has gone .
16 A good quality carpet should last for a very long time .
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