Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been arranged for a very long time . ’ |
| 2 | It seems that human attention can only be sustained for a very limited time by any subject , even the prospects of its own destruction . |
| 3 | The couple wanted to thank friends and relatives for the ‘ tremendous support they had given during a pretty rough time ’ . |
| 4 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 5 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 6 | We were sitting there waiting to hear what the guy at the other end of the phone thought about it and he came back saying , It 's the worst thing anyone here has heard for a very long time — actually I think he was a little more abusive than that , but he went on — I do n't like it and I do n't know anyone else who would . |
| 7 | The important debate in my opinion that we shall have this Committee stage and it is for that reason and also because for four-and-a-half years which I think is regarded as a very long time , I was answerable for police affairs er with the Home Secretary in another place , as the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan will remember , many years ago , it goes back to January nineteen fifty-eight when I became Under Secretary and he was political advisor to the Police Federation and we very rarely disagreed I 'm happy to say . |
| 8 | But then he had already had enough to keep him and many others occupied for a very long time . |
| 9 | Yet ironically , recent government policies have created a situation where more and more prisoners serving life and other long sentences have rather less to lose , for it has now been decreed that various categories of serious offender will not normally be considered for parole , or not considered for a very long time ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 10 | We 've got to look at it in those terms , and so it is not necessary in my submission for anyone to prove at the moment there is at least five thousand dwellings short , erm that that is something which ought to be considered over a much longer time period . |
| 11 | The eve of the second anniversary of Maxwell 's death could n't have come at a more crucial time for the pensioners who travelled to London today . |
| 12 | I felt … well , the offer could n't have come at a more opportune time , could it ? ’ |
| 13 | They had the easy familiarity of two people who knew each other very well indeed , and had done for a very long time . |
| 14 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 15 | In the spring of 1976 I decided to act on a need I had felt for a very long time . |
| 16 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 17 | There was a flicker of response in them which Brian had not seen for a very long time . |
| 18 | Because the recommendations in our Report have been prepared in a relatively short time , some changes will almost certainly prove necessary in the light of experience . |
| 19 | Think , by way of comparison , of the change that man has wrought in a much shorter time by genetic selection of dogs . |
| 20 | ‘ We certainly surprised a lot of people and I think we may even have surprised ourselves by the progress we had made in a relatively short time . ’ |
| 21 | In our sort of high-technology business , the high profits tend to be made over a fairly limited time , which in many cases appears to be getting shorter . |
| 22 | The phrase ‘ community participation ’ has been used for a much longer time . |
| 23 | McKellar argued that while more than 70 per cent of people answering a questionnaire reported at least one hypnagogic experience the actual incidence may be even higher , as " it can be overlooked for a very long time even by those who subsequently realize that they have the experience frequently … |
| 24 | The walls were lined with bookshelves , each shelf crammed with books , mostly in long sets of leather-bound volumes that looked as if they had not been read , or touched , or even dusted for a very long time . |
| 25 | The irony is it 's the best team we 've had for a very long time . ’ |
| 26 | On the whole , Kit ignored their questions , sued for a little more time , talked of harvests and animals ' breeding cycles . |
| 27 | Some of the landforms , especially if they are depositional , may be quickly destroyed , but forms cut into resistant rocks may be preserved for a very long time . |
| 28 | Pleased and strangely girlish , which was a feeling she had not had in a very long time . |
| 29 | Christian festivals had coexisted for a very long time with ancient non-Christian celebrations . |
| 30 | It is a factor recognised for a very long time in relation to language learning . |