Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] in a [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I have n't seen you so passionate in a long time .
2 He had not felt so good in a long time .
3 At a time when computer technology was advancing rapidly and any given computer-based business management system tended to be technically obsolescent in a short time , a company made a reasonable decision that all such computers would be depreciated at 50 per cent per annum , making prudent financial provision against their short useful lives .
4 At a time when computer technology was advancing rapidly and any given computer-based business management system tended to be technically obsolescent in a short time , a company made a reasonable decision that all such computers would be depreciated at 50 per cent per annum , making prudent financial provision against their short useful lives .
5 Effective study does not mean reading twice as fast ( one measure of efficiency ) or writing twice as much in a given time period ( another measure of output over input ) .
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