Example sentences of "[pers pn] be for a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was for a short time privileged to share in the joy and vitality and the oneness with Almighty God in his Luo people ( Anne Marie will gladly give a talk and show slides to any interested groups in the North West . |
| 2 | Nell stayed as she was for a long time , then had an inspiration . |
| 3 | Yes , yes , it sounds it sounds as it 's for a limited time anyway , so , you know |
| 4 | The guy who 's been in the business or been in the same patch or whatever it is for a long time , |
| 5 | It was for a long time a small and cheap organisation . |
| 6 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |