Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a wide ranging and at times overtly anti-communist speech , described by the Guardian of March 30 as " more measured and specific than any he has given for a long time " , Yeltsin pilloried central government policy , labelling perestroika the " last phase of the stagnation period " . |
| 2 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
| 3 | ‘ This validation from the Prime Minister has come at an important time for the industry as it strives to get up off its knees , ’ said Keith Banbury , Chief Executive . |
| 4 | Nobody stops learning , but at only 15st I 'm the fastest heavyweight the world has seen in a long time . ’ |
| 5 | Any object that an individual has had for a long time , a favourite book for example , has already been affected by that individual 's electrical impulses . |
| 6 | If a neutral event has occurred within a certain time of an already important event , if it was of a certain category and if another of the same category had not been interposed between it and the important event , then that event itself acquires significance for the animal . |
| 7 | ‘ Jason Donovan has known for a long time that The Face is not rich , and we have repeatedly offered to apologise unreservedly for the article , ’ the statement added . |
| 8 | ‘ Jason Donovan has known for a long time that The Face is not rich , and we have repeatedly offered to apologise unreservedly for the article , ’ the statement added . |
| 9 | The art ( therapy ? ) of Reflexology is founded on the principle that massaging the feet can affect the health of other parts of the body , a fact which acupuncture has known for a long time . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's probably the most important match either team has faced for a long time . |
| 11 | The judgements that have to be made are complex , not least because local government has existed for a long time and the opportunities for building up capital or depleting it have been great . |
| 12 | Mont Blanc , to be sure , has existed for a long time , and probably will exist for a while yet , but it does not work to stay in existence . |
| 13 | In the classical theory of gravity , which is based on real space-time , there are only two possible ways the universe can behave : either it has existed for an infinite time , or else it had a beginning at a singularity at some finite time in the past . |
| 14 | That the miller 's knives substitute for his sexual potency rather than reflect it is indicated by the superiority of the clerk 's performance in bed with his wife to anything he has managed for a long time : He has fathered two children , but , like Bayard , his sexual energy is now exhausted . |
| 15 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 16 | Our team lost the game by 125 runs , but they reckoned overall it was the most enjoyable day 's cricket they 'd had in a long time . |
| 17 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 18 | So we all got very excited because it was the first money we 'd spent for a long time . |
| 19 | When TV Times readers voted Crawford 1973 's Funniest Man on TV in the magazine 's Top 10 Awards , it confirmed the phenomenal success that Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em had become in a short time . |
| 20 | The advantage to the bank is that it has the use of a deposit for a fixed period , but , because of the flexibility given to the lender , at a slightly lower price than it would have had to pay for a normal time deposit . |
| 21 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 22 | Why , d' ya get , do you have to retire at a certain time ? |
| 23 | She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable . |
| 24 | What we do have and have had for a long time in this country is an acceptance within our law and an acceptance within our definitions of freedom that there are responsibilities with freedom and those responsibilities in this particular case , we have long accepted the argument in this country , maybe not as much as erm , well more in fact than some of our colleagues abroad and maybe they could learn from us from this , but it is not acceptable to have the freedom to be unnecessarily cruel and in fox hunting we have a sport that is unnecessarily cruel , there are ways in which you can deal with rogue foxes , there are ways in which you can actually ensure that the fox community does not destroy the whole , er farming countryside . |
| 25 | ( b ) The request by the consumer must have occurred within a reasonable time of the occurrence of the damage ( s. 2(3) ( b ) ) . |
| 26 | Johnson went to the lavatory — at least , that is presumably what Boswell means when he says , ‘ having retired for a short time ’ — ; and Boswell and Monboddo engaged cordially with each other . |
| 27 | Leslie was devastated by the news , having tried for a long time to have a baby . |
| 28 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |
| 29 | I 'd have cried , I 'd have brooded for a long time . |
| 30 | He must have worked for a long time in the garage . |