Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] time [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | For our purposes what matters is that RNA , or something like it , was around for a long time before it became self-replicating . |
| 2 | A discrete block of land may have been in existence for a long time before it was first described in a written document . |
| 3 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |
| 4 | I did n't always agree with her Chopin , and her Liszt was a disaster area , but I 'd listen to her for a long time if it 's Schumann . |
| 5 | We have to view a stimulus for a finite time before it generates a perception , but that perception appears to us to occur instantaneously rather than fading into view like the Cheshire cat . ) |
| 6 | As usual the author traces the history of the stations from their earliest days , 1891 in the case of Pwllheli , and has located some early photographs including one of the unusual ‘ tubular ’ lifeboat which served at this station on the Lleyn Peninsula for a short time after it was first opened . |
| 7 | It does indeed get dark at a sensible time so it 's possible to go to bed before about one in the morning . |