Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I been here a long time . |
| 2 | I was only a short time standing there , but long enough to take in the vessel 's lines , the quite dainty sheer , her size and the layout of the masts and rigging . |
| 3 | ‘ You were away a long time , ’ said Pip . |
| 4 | Safely ensconced with her fishhouse in a Devon village , she is now a full time fishkeeping journalist and translator . |
| 5 | She was away a long time . |
| 6 | It 's rather a long time is n't it ? |
| 7 | ‘ It 's not a good time , Mrs Sutherland . ’ |
| 8 | As you know , it 's not a good time . |
| 9 | Well it 's not a good time to enter the market now . |
| 10 | So er , it 's quite different ai n't it still it 's not a bad time to come out |
| 11 | It 's also a good time to decide where you 're going to sit for example , in the dining room or the lounge . |
| 12 | April is the NHIC 's National Home Improvement Month and it 's also a great time of year to take a look at your home and see what needs doing . |
| 13 | It 's always a happy time with young children in the house and everybody gathers around , it 's a family time for us and we enjoy it . |
| 14 | If you plant a crop , it 's quite a long time before it |
| 15 | ‘ It 's quite a long time since I made any . |
| 16 | That it 's quite a long time to achieve . |
| 17 | It 's quite a long time since breakfast . ’ |
| 18 | It 's only a short time to squeeze in eight gramophone records , is n't it ? |
| 19 | ‘ No , it is not a good time to be opening a hotel of this calibre , ’ Wolfgang Nitschke agrees . |
| 20 | Fat bald man asks if it is not a bracing time of year . |
| 21 | It is also a suitable time to look forward to a new Government which will use the Department of Social Security to defend the interests of pensioners , the disabled and others in need , rather than the interests of the Treasury , the wealthy and the political constituencies of the Conservative party . |
| 22 | As the PAL:YPE recalls , this impression was based on a combination of physical environment , staff vision , and an existing commitment to an infrastructure including a permanent part-time library assistant : School A I was impressed with , because they too had already started to talk about resource-based learning and they already had as far as I remember … ( now my memory is fairly vague now because it is quite a long time ago ) … but as far as I remember they had a Headmaster , who was extremely interested , very keen indeed , and they had a committee already set up , I think to look into this . |
| 23 | But she was aware that she had been preoccupied a lot of the time , all too aware of the mountain of work before her , and that it was rather a long time since she and her daughter had had any special outings together . |
| 24 | It was n't a safe time to communicate as the guards often popped in to see that we were still exercising . |
| 25 | It was not a nice time . |
| 26 | It was not a good time for him in many ways . |
| 27 | It was also a popular time for processions of witness or walking days , when the members of churches and Sunday schools of all denominations would walk together through the streets , stopping at selected places along the route to sing hymns to bear witness to their Christian faith . |
| 28 | It was also a bad time personally . |
| 29 | It was quite a long time . |
| 30 | It was indeed a difficult time . |