Example sentences of "a [adj] time for the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | August 1985 was a strange time for The Smiths . |
| 2 | It was a terrible time for the Orcs , who suffered defeat after defeat and never found a leader of their own to equal Sigmar . |
| 3 | In 1948 , he was appointed to the St Mungo ( Notman ) chair of pathology in the University of Glasgow and consultant pathologist to Glasgow Royal Infirmary , where he spent six happy and productive years — at a critical time for the NHS — before accepting the invitation to the chair of pathology in Edinburgh . |
| 4 | Needless to say , it was a worrying time for the Roubanova family . |
| 5 | It is a worrying time for the Cupertino company , but it probably can come through more or less unscathed , simply because people buy Apple kit not for the underlying technology but for what 's on top of it , so provided a happy marriage can be arranged between the PowerPC hardware and Apple 's software , and the thing ends up looking to the user like a Macintosh that is simply faster , more powerful , more easy to use and in all ways better than the 68040-based models , Apple should be able to scrape through — and there is still a Motorola Inc 68060 in the pipeline that Apple can fall back on if everything in the IBM relationship goes awry . |