Example sentences of "have a [adv] [adj] time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | With one or two notable exceptions , among them Tchaikovsky 's First String Quartet and Piano Trio , and Borodin 's two quarters , 19th century Russian chamber music has a pretty thin time of it . |
| 2 | I 've had a rather difficult time of it of late and it may be affecting my attitude to people . ’ |
| 3 | If it had been Rime Giants following us we would have had a more difficult time of it ; they enjoy such conditions . |
| 4 | The gentlemen of the press had had a fairly lean time of it so far . |
| 5 | Captain Lawton and his men seem to have had a fairly trouble-free time of it , because all 15 of them were duly discharged back in London after the seven-month voyage . |
| 6 | I 've felt for sometime we needed to put more pressure on Welsh Office ministers who I feel are having a pretty easy time of it on the environmental front . |
| 7 | Bored and lonely , yes , but I had a reasonably pleasant time of things all the same . |
| 8 | It was generally agreed that Ella ruled the roost and that ‘ poor Miss Dean ’ had a pretty thin time of it . |
| 9 | The rain had stopped and Hunt had a relatively easy time of it to win . |
| 10 | USAC was fine and Mario was a star there , but to be a real star in America , you have to win Indianapolis , and that was one place , Mario recalls , where he had a really lean time of it . |
| 11 | Animals that feed in these ways have a relatively easy time of it . |
| 12 | Doctors have a very rough time of it . ’ |
| 13 | They have a very lean time of it in winter , and if the spring grass does not come to their succour , they die in large numbers . |