Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] a [adj] time [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Mind you I ca n't talk , I looked in the mirror a couple of weeks ago and my eyes are , I mean are really they 're having a rough time indeed
2 ‘ You 're having a marvellous time out there .
3 In America , as long as you 're having a good time right now , it 's valid ; if in the next century it 's all forgotten , then that 's okay too .
4 He 's taking her out for meals and they 're having a good time together you know .
5 ‘ Enduring ’ means nothing if you 're having a rotten time now , so you guys love Shakespeare and in the meantime I ca n't get a good hot cup of coffee in this country .
6 This contrived notion of a rock'n'roll band touring around — we 're doing all that shit and we 're having a great time too .
7 Pupils at Kensington infants ' school are having a marvellous time just mucking about .
8 Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's .
9 I 'm having a great time here .
10 ( 7° ) I 'm writing to say I 'm having a marvellous time here The gestural usage must be glossed a little differently , as " the pragmatically given space , proximal to speaker 's location at CT , that includes the point or location gesturally indicated " .
11 , my first years had two children , had no breast problems and I 'm having a horrendous time just now and I 'm on H R T , I 'm on my third different kind !
12 Such a phenomenon may be explained in various ways , but one factor of acknowledged importance is certainly the rapidity of economic and social change , which tends to separate more sharply the experience , expectations and outlook of older and younger generations , as Mead ( 1970 ) argued in a study in which she likened the ‘ dissident young ’ to pioneers who are exploring a new time rather than a new country .
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