Example sentences of "[vb infin] be [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 2 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 3 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 4 | On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun : |
| 5 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 6 | It would just have been having a good time . |