Example sentences of "[adj] time of [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | too bad for this time of I bet we 're doing better this year , this time of the year than we did last . |
| 2 | Of the two , Mr Yates , who will be 81 in November and has been in Congress almost without a break since he was first elected in 1948 , had the easier time of it . |
| 3 | Do you not agree that you writers have had an easier time of it than we in the West , in a closed society where your cultural values are protected , albeit at a price ? |
| 4 | The " lesser widows " had an easier time of it . |
| 5 | Dear me , a high old time of it we all had when Cormac was at Tara . |
| 6 | A young Paul Gascoigne has a torrid time of it at the hands of the opposition in a league football match back in 1989 . |
| 7 | Davies , Strudwick and Johnson persuaded Nicholas to hand in her resignation because they could see that she was having an impossible time of it . |
| 8 | Trainees , or inexperienced dealers alone took the task seriously , and had the most burdensome time of it . |
| 9 | You know , they have a nicer time of it here altogether do n't they ? |
| 10 | That will leave management free to concentrate on the existing businesses which are not having an easy time of it . |
| 11 | When Richard Baxter first came to Kidderminster he by no means had any easy time of it . |
| 12 | But they have not had an easy time of it , as much of the garden was originally covered by a concrete driveway , and the soil , though fertile had a layer of ironstone at about the depth you need to plan shrubs . |
| 13 | The rain had stopped and Hunt had a relatively easy time of it to win . |
| 14 | The 32-year-old French film director has just flown into London from LA , and has not had an easy time of it . |
| 15 | Take That have n't had an easy time of it breaking into the big time . |
| 16 | Animals that feed in these ways have a relatively easy time of it . |
| 17 | I 've felt for sometime we needed to put more pressure on Welsh Office ministers who I feel are having a pretty easy time of it on the environmental front . |
| 18 | Invergordon did not have an easy time of it in 1992 , a fact reflected both by turnover , down 8 per cent at £85 million , and operating profits , down 3.8 per cent at £35.3 million . |
| 19 | But he has been very loving this summer and much cast down by the failure of the Italian cause and I will not grudge him a livelier time of it in Rome . |
| 20 | Captain Lawton and his men seem to have had a fairly trouble-free time of it , because all 15 of them were duly discharged back in London after the seven-month voyage . |
| 21 | He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front . |
| 22 | The Swans are playing some outstanding rugby these days and , although they were given a hard time of it against Dunvant in the last round , it is always difficult to combat gritty opponents who feel they have nothing to lose . |
| 23 | The Greek revolt was seen by European liberals who in a sense might be having a hard time of it in in , in those years . |
| 24 | " The peasants have a hard time of it all round , it seems to me . |
| 25 | Before the 1967 Act the labs had a hard time of it , I can tell you , when all scientific evidence had to be given orally . |
| 26 | These were the people Wesley had come to Cornwall to save , to rescue from the devil and , by all accounts , they had given the old campaigner a hard time of it . |
| 27 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
| 28 | In some ways , thought Henry , the man with whom Donald had been confused seemed to have had a better time of it . |
| 29 | The locals , in theory , should have a better time of it , the grapevine telling them where the ice is best . |
| 30 | You 'll probably be better paid , and have a better time of it . ’ |