Example sentences of "was [verb] a [adj] time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iain Christie , chairman of the processing group , said : ‘ This promotion was arranged a long time ago , before this import situation surfaced . |
| 2 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
| 3 | This was resolved a short time later when an unstable product of a short-term incubation of arachidonic acid with cyclo-oxygenase prepared from the vesicular gland of sheep was found to induce platelet aggregation ( Willis & Kuhn , 1973 ) . |
| 4 | It was decided a long time ago and the waiting is over . ’ |
| 5 | The estate was sold a long time ago to the Dukes of Devonshire and was tenanted at one time by the Reverend Thomas Fosbroke , the celebrated antiquary . |
| 6 | ‘ When I step back from it all , I see tennis was invented a long time ago . |
| 7 | Ooh I was taken a long time ago . |
| 8 | ‘ The entire community was resettled a long time ago . |