Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 2 | On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people . |
| 3 | You have hidden for a long time , Maggie , and missed so much . ’ |
| 4 | Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society . |
| 5 | As an apologist , he seems totally blind to the fact that the New Testament is just such a collection of old books , which require , if we are to understand them aright , patience and a willingness to listen to scholars who have meditated for a long time on the nature of the ( often quite puzzling and contradictory ) material which they contain . |
| 6 | You have come at the wrong time . |
| 7 | If I add that the majority of Cubists were formerly considered to be Fauves , I can demonstrate how far these young artists have come in a short time and the logic of their vision . |
| 8 | Dozens of children who survived a rare blood disorder have met for the first time at a special party . |
| 9 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 10 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
| 11 | If you saw it over the weekend I mean there was I think it was group sex er it was it wa was gay sex and it was all going on I mean it was all I thought it was the most exciting thing I have seen for a long time to be quite honest . |
| 12 | This is the highest quality educational package I have seen in a long time and is well worth registering . |
| 13 | This has been one of the best Friday debates that I have attended for a long time . |
| 14 | ( Hereford cattle entries have slumped to an all time low of just fifty nine here at the show.The ancient local breed has been hit by competition from Continental cattle.But now the Hereford farmers are fighting back with a scheme to boost beef sales.Richard Barnett reports : ) |
| 15 | We have argued for a long time that there is a peripheral argument that in the strategic interests of the nation we should be concerned about the coal industry . |
| 16 | We have accepted for a long time that traumatic stress incidents are the basis of an industrial injury claim . |
| 17 | ‘ I have felt for a long time that the only way this issue was going to be resolved was to have it fixed on a political level — that it would n't just fade away . |
| 18 | Wendy , who is also a keep fit specialist , is overwhelmed by her new pupils ' enthusiasm and thrilled at the progress they have made in a short time . |
| 19 | But the Premier League clubs did come up with two positive measures in what Parry described as ‘ the most constructive meeting we have had for a long time . ’ |
| 20 | It was the best experience I have had for a long time . ’ |
| 21 | The index can be seen as measuring the increase in gross taxable income required to compensate taxpayers for any increase in retail prices , taking into account any changes in direct taxation ( including employees ' National Insurance contributions ) which have occurred at the same time . |
| 22 | We have shown for the first time an inhibition of in vitro CCPR in normal and premalignant human rectal epithelium by vitamin D and its metabolites . |
| 23 | According to scientists at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory , the proposals for the centre have surfaced at a good time . |
| 24 | no , no , my Lord I have raised for the first time the board minute |
| 25 | ‘ Our side against Huddersfield will be the most experienced we have fielded for a long time . |
| 26 | That shared culture has gone , though its traces have persisted for a long time , at least among those unworldly older academics who assume that students of English will have read the whole of Shakespeare in the sixth form , or that they can readily identify classical or biblical references . |
| 27 | You do n't expect that from people you have known for a long time . |
| 28 | We have known for a long time that there is no one right way to analyze a proposed capital investment . |
| 29 | Managers have known for a long time that demographics matter , but they have always believed that population statistics change slowly . |
| 30 | So general SVQs have arrived at a good time . |