Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] a [adj] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has had a sad time looking for work in London and intends to go back to the North-East with his parents as soon as possible , ’ said David Martin , defending . |
| 2 | Even Disney , the most successful studio of the late 1980s , has had a tough time launching Hollywood Pictures , the baby sister of its Touchstone studio . |
| 3 | The pyramid has taken a long time to crumble . |
| 4 | ‘ It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added . |
| 5 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
| 6 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 7 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 8 | Such a measure has taken a long time to appear . |
| 9 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
| 10 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 11 | It does take a little time to right a market that has got so badly out of step . ’ |
| 12 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not allowed to say too much about the FA decision , but it does seem a silly time to play the game . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not allowed to say too much about the FA decision , but it does seem a silly time to play the game . |
| 15 | And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so |
| 16 | ‘ He 's had a hard time getting into the world , ’ Elizabeth replied . |
| 17 | Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over . |