Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 It came at the right time .
2 In the meantime , my thirteenth birthday was coming up , and it seemed like a good time to revive my request for the perfect present : a bird of prey .
3 It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end .
4 Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game .
5 Written by Colin Sweet of the London-based Centre for Energy Studies , it appeared at a sensitive time when budget wrangling threatened to delay fusion .
6 Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time .
7 The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory .
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