Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 She also played in the Curtis Cup for a second time — but that was where the negative thoughts began to rear .
2 The Government have proposed to privatise Northern Ireland Electricity for a considerable time .
3 No more than 14 when she pocketed the Scottish Girls ' title and the Scottish Girls ' Under-22 Stroke-Play Championship for a first time , Jane became the youngest ever to play for Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup when she was chosen for the 1980 match at St. Pierre .
4 It is known that the Museum of Modern Art , which has no accommodation at the moment , has had its eye on the Krymskaya Naberezhnaya location for a long time .
5 The ascendancy of the house of Foix , with its extensive possessions in the central and eastern Pyrenees and in Catalonia , Roussillon and Navarre , brought a political force inclined towards the Capetians rather than the Plantagenets into the arena of Gascon politics at a troubled time .
6 For example , there is enough material in a glass of water to run a car for ten years , enough in the top few centimetres of Lake Erie to power New York State for a similar time and enough in the oceans to keep us going indefinitely .
7 Mervin completed his third London run in a blistering time of two hours 55 minutes .
8 ‘ She was found out by a couple o' the local lads who went over Charin' Cross fer a good time .
9 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 .
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