Example sentences of "have been [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Computerworld , Softlab recently offered $350m for the company — which has been experiencing a rough time of late , reporting mid-term losses of $3.5m back in January . |
| 2 | It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan . |
| 3 | ‘ You know , St. David , that Welsh rugby has been having a terrible time lately . |
| 4 | Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them . |
| 5 | The poor old dear has been having a hard time of late . |
| 6 | While Dixton House has been lapping up the attention , his jockey , Tom Morgan , has been having a hard time . |
| 7 | She has been waiting a long time for your kiss . ’ |
| 8 | But er I mean er she , she was in a perfect position to do it , I mean she 'd been retired a long time , she was in good health and obviously an annuity would be perfect for her er where it would n't be for a younger person , so I mean life annuities not got . |
| 9 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 11 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 12 | It would just have been having a good time . |
| 13 | This looks to have been painted a long time ago . ’ |
| 14 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
| 15 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 16 | Harbury surmised that he had more reason than anybody : he had been severely demoted , he had been given a rough time and he was partly responsible for Martin Ayling selling to MacQuillan . |
| 17 | Watson had been given a hard time from the Wednesday crowd before those goals but is now hoping the tide has turned . |
| 18 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 19 | Where direct rule had been established a long time — in India , for example — it provided a framework in which there could grow an acceptance of European ideas of political organization . |
| 20 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 21 | And Jonathan would never have recognised her as the girl to whom he had become engaged , the easygoing girl whose only concern had been to have a good time , however much money it took . |
| 22 | for everything had been bought a long time ago |
| 23 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been waiting a long time , ’ she said soothingly . |
| 24 | I 've been waiting a long time , watching the roads , asking about new arrivals in the large towns . |
| 25 | And he answered : ‘ Yes , I have been waiting a long time , waiting to hear you say that . |
| 26 | ‘ Our fans have been waiting a long time for a game like Sunday 's . |
| 27 | Well Newcastle folk have been waiting a long time , and we all badly want to give them something to celebrate . ’ |
| 28 | I have been waiting a long time for a British magazine to offer intelligent coverage of mainstream sport in a way that Sports Illustrated , among others in America , seems to do effortlessly . |
| 29 | we have been waiting a long time traffic calming . |
| 30 | Says 24-year-old Alex : ‘ We have been having a great time in Blackpool and are all so excited about coming to Liverpool . |