Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | It has exploited a slack time — the hiatus between the end of tunnelling work on the Channel link and the start of London 's Jubilee Line Underground extension — to demand that contractors work to tighter margins : between 3 and 7 per cent , compared with the 15 per cent allowed by North West Water , for example , on its contracts . |
2 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
3 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
4 | ‘ It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added . |
5 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
6 | It has taken a long time for such unashamed aspiration to reach these shores , yet now , that mentality which is increasingly being demanded by the British in pursuance of their leisure activities , has finally arrived . |
7 | It has taken a long time for those engaged in mainstream adult education to attribute any significance to the Women 's Movement . |
8 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
9 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
10 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
11 | ‘ I 'm not allowed to say too much about the FA decision , but it does seem a silly time to play the game . |
12 | ‘ I 'm not allowed to say too much about the FA decision , but it does seem a silly time to play the game . |
13 | Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over . |