Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos it 'd have to take a long time . |
| 2 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 3 | He could have worked things out the same way I had , and he 'd have had a hellish time believing it all of his own son . |
| 4 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 5 | What sort of crazy person would choose to have a hard time ? |
| 6 | I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human . |
| 7 | We were surprised at the continuing estimates of fixed costs , as we would have expected a minimal time investment after the first year of familiarisation , but given that training was identified as the major cost , it may be that this forms the bulk of the continuing cost . |
| 8 | We arrived in Venice with time to spare before catching the train to Bologna , where we would have to change a third time for Parma . |
| 9 | Deprived — fortunately as it turned out , for otherwise he would have had no spare time at all — of the pleasures of the rugby field , he played a little squash and tennis ( developing his ‘ cannonball serve : that 's all you need , see : they never get it back ’ ) and ‘ chatting up ’ . |
| 10 | A Titford family photograph taken in the early 1890s shows husband and wife with five daughters and young Marwood , the girls in neat smocks or severe black dresses , the son in an Eton collar , and every one of the group looking his or her most miserable Sunday best Those photographers who made a speciality of enticing young ladies to say ‘ prunes ’ and ‘ prisms ’ to bring out their charming dimples , called ‘ watch the birdie ! ’ with much gusto or tried ‘ cheese ! ’ in the hope of a smile would have had a rough time indeed with severe-looking Benjamin James and his wife and children . |
| 11 | Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him . |
| 12 | When I was a boy — just 30 years ago — a store like this would have had a hard time surviving in this small mid-Western Canadian city . |
| 13 | If it had n't been for him , I would have had a bad time because I hated school . ’ |
| 14 | If Peggy herself had had one tenth of such devotion from her father she would have had a happier time as a child . |
| 15 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 16 | As they involved a great deal of the same work to bring them into effect — work that would have taken a considerable time — and would have imposed further contingent or actual liabilities on funds at a time when there was already considerable anxiety because of the uncertainty over the Barber judgment — |