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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It can come at the least expected time as , indeed , can the end of the world and the Second Coming of Jesus . |
| 12 | Laboratory experiments can only last for a relatively short time , and have to be held within the confines of the laboratory . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A good quality carpet should last for a very long time . |