Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb base] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless the parties agree a different time for payment , the seller can sue for the price only after property has passed , section 49 ( see paragraph 12 02 ) . |
| 2 | The directors have a reasonable time in which to come to a decision , but since section 183(5) of the Act imposes an obligation on them to give to the transferee notice of rejection within two months of the lodging of the transfer , the maximum reasonable period is two months . |
| 3 | It was September , when the days take a long time to wake up and the green of the trees is brushed with gold . |
| 4 | Otherwise he can just give them with the bloody tellies or trying to buy them with the tellies and the dealers have a lovely time |
| 5 | For one thing they are not really cultivated , mostly because the trees take a long time to bear fruit and even then are not very prolific . |
| 6 | " The peasants have a hard time of it all round , it seems to me . |