Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Is she making a promise to the British people that this improvement will be financed by an increase in taxation , or that , just as the Conservative Government have always aspired to improve that target , so will a Labour Government , and the British people will have to wait a long time for such an improvement to materialise ? |
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 | The boy must have had a terrible time at school . |
4 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
5 | DUNDEE 'S Canadian chairman Ron Dixon will have had an uncomfortable time since Saturday despite the distance between his home in Vancouver and his football headquarters at Dens Park . |
6 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
7 | Was it easier for them was it easy for them to pick up work or would they have been woul would they have to face a long time on the dole or ? |