Example sentences of "live a [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | All money purchase schemes are potentially unpredictable , and are especially likely to lose value through monetary inflation ( and not least if the annuitant lives a long time ) unless the annuity is fully index-linked , which is not the case under present legislation . |
2 | People lived a long time with fluid … asthma … emphysema … years . |
3 | A lot of people seem to refer to Jesus as a good man who lived a long time ago ; a man who taught about God and who became ‘ Son of God ’ by his resurrection . |
4 | Men lived a long time on Tarvaras . |
5 | ‘ It does n't matter — just someone who lived a long time ago — best forgotten . ’ |
6 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
7 | It 's the same sort of factor that allows anybody who smokes a lot to not get cancer and not get bronchitis and live , also live a long time . |
8 | Flies which have their day length continually varied live a shorter time than those following a more normal routine . |
9 | The ferret can drink and will live a long time should it escape . |
10 | The specialists had said that if she was careful , she could live a long time . |
11 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
12 | You 're not old nan you 've just lived a long time |