Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A worker-directed study conducted in the mid-1970s considered as temporary workers all who had a job which was available only for a limited time and all who were themselves available for their jobs for only a limited period of time . |
| 2 | Many children come into care only for a short time while their parents try to sort out their difficulties . |
| 3 | According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 755 ) Beornred succeeded to the kingdom on the death of Aethelbald but held it only for a short time and unhappily . |
| 4 | Because we knew that the headmaster of the Scuola Medie Inferiori , where I was now in my last year , was not in a position to punish us if we did not appear for lessons on demonstration days , many of us took part only for a short time and then went home . |
| 5 | ‘ We were together for a long time but we grew apart and we have both been working hard . ’ |
| 6 | Earlier marriages with fewer children means that couples are together for a long time after their children have left home . |
| 7 | And , as I say , we 've been together for a long time and the appointment , the changeover of the appointments |
| 8 | Martha stood patiently for a long time while her mother tried one dress after another on her , hoping to find a colour that made her skin seem paler and a cut that disguised her skeletal proportions . |
| 9 | An application for relief may be filed only within a reasonable time after the defendant has knowledge of the judgment . |
| 10 | By Luke 's own admission he saw her as shallow , someone interested only in a good time and a string of boyfriends . |
| 11 | It was very good very very good for women that have been home for a long time and want to get their confidence back . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose , ’ said Suvarov , paying no attention to her rudeness or the incipient hysteria in her voice , ‘ because it was so important … not just fighting it , but being part of it , doing one 's best and living more intensely over a longer time than one had before . ’ |
| 13 | Many people with HIV stay well for a long time and you would never know they had the virus . |
| 14 | ‘ I have not felt so well for a long time and I shall be tempted to be very vulgar in my speech . ’ |
| 15 | Alice was understandably puzzled , saying , ‘ Well in our country you 'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we 've been doing . ’ |
| 16 | If your engine is fitted with a viscous coupled cooling fan and the viscous unit is faulty after running the engine fast for a short time and then slowing down the fan continues to spin freely and even speeds up . |
| 17 | We will help those that we have to help legally , or perhaps those whom people want to help , but we will not have foisted upon us those who come here for a good time and a good life . |
| 18 | A Mum and Dad who 'd known vaguely for a long time that Conor liked holding parties were suddenly being told over cups of tea and Hobnobs about vast acid house raves in the middle of fields , about police chases across whole counties , about an entire organisation that Conor had run ( Conor had run an organisation ? ) , which could call a party and have 5,000 people turning up at £20 a ticket within 48 hours . |
| 19 | The atmosphere was not exactly lively but I continued to have lunch there for a long time because she was extremely kind and the food was good . |
| 20 | " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin . |
| 21 | We all think it 's going to stay there for a long time and , and there are varieties now , bred specially to be immune from er T M V and er , we use things like Counter or Curabell , or one of my favourites of course Shirley . |
| 22 | The first was occupied by Miss Trimby , the last of a family that had lived there for a long time whilst her neighbours were Mr. & Mrs. Collins with their middle-aged bachelor son . |
| 23 | He studied her minutely for a long time until she felt his eyes had bored into her very skull . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , Daouad , you will not see the Sukkariya again for a long time unless you answer my questions . ’ |
| 25 | Then they would have entered the conical shadow cast by the moon , and the stars would have become visible again for a brief time before the Lift sank beneath the surface itself and came to a standstill , its massive kinetic energy somehow conducted away from the lower terminus and stored in a way that Alex Bannen would have killed to learn . |
| 26 | He watched her closely for a long time but there was no further flicker of consciousness . |
| 27 | So marriages break up , the man becomes rootless and homeless , and can either end up in prison again within a short time or else drift into destitution . |
| 28 | Pupils move from one station to the next either at a specified time or when they are ready . |
| 29 | ( 2 ) The Director may by notice in writing require the person whose affairs are to be investigated ( ‘ the person under investigation ’ ) or any other person whom he has reason to believe has relevant information to answer questions or otherwise furnish information with respect to any matter relevant to the investigation at a specified place and either at a specified time or forthwith . |
| 30 | Sometimes the virus stays there quietly for a long time and the person stays well . |