Example sentences of "be [prep] [noun sg] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will mainly be because they have been in office a long time , and because of the recession . |
| 2 | We have been in business a long time and not being selected by one particular country is not going to have a significant effect on us at all . ’ |
| 3 | If the first retailer has only been in business a short time before the second retailer opens his store then it is unlikely that anything can be done . |
| 4 | They go with the will of the people and the will of the people is to go along with the President , I 've been in politics a long time . |
| 5 | Philip hoped Uncle Walter would n't be in hospital a long time . |
| 6 | She knew he would be in hospital a long time and wondered how they would manage if he ever came home . |
| 7 | For the trouble with the great and the good is that we expect them to be on duty the whole time . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been at sea a long time . |
| 9 | Mr. Clark had to get a bricklayer to repair the walls that were broken and he complained that although the schoolmaster was in attendance the whole time , the boys had made it worse than it was before . |
| 10 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
| 11 | It was in fact the first time in his life that he had looked at any woman . |
| 12 | It was in fact the first time she had thought of such a thing , and it did not seem to be a very good idea , but nothing irritated her more than being addressed in that Listen With Mother voice ( particularly as her daughter-in-law spoke to her children quite normally ) and it goaded her to contrariness . |
| 13 | We went to the christening and my heart was in my mouth it was on edge the whole time . |
| 14 | Never mind Tuesday I was at placement the whole time and we sort of |