Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps a shabby clerical type like myself , wizened with poring over books , or a small time salesman , roving the country with hopeful samples , not this large , wild , peremptory man with a laugh that filled the stairwell . |
| 2 | ‘ Put into the language of today , the general principle being there stated is simply that , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied that the courts must give effect to it , United Kingdom legislation is applicable only to British subjects or to foreigners who by coming to the United Kingdom , whether for a short or a long time , have made themselves subject to British jurisdiction . |
| 3 | ‘ It appears to me that the whole question is governed by the broad , general , universal principle that English legislation , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied as to make it the duty of an English court to give effect to an English statute , is applicable only to English subjects or to foreigners who by coming into this country , whether for a long or a short time , have made themselves during that time subject to English jurisdiction . |
| 4 | The declaration stated that , whereas heretofore , to wit , etc. , in consideration that the plaintiff , at the request of the defendant , had then consented to allow the defendant to weigh divers , to wit two , boilers of the plaintiff , of great value , etc. , defendant promised that he would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected , leave and give up the boilers in as perfect and complete a condition , and as fit for use by plaintiff , as the same were in at the time of the consent so given by plaintiff ; and that , although in pursuance of the consent so given , defendant to wit , on , etc. , did weigh the same boilers , yet defendant did not nor would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected leave and give up boilers in as perfect , etc. , but wholly neglected and refused so to do , although a reasonable time for that purpose had elapsed before the commencement of this suit ; and , on the contrary thereof , defendant afterwards , to wit on , etc. , took the said boilers to pieces and did not put the same together again but left the same in a detached and divided condition , and in many different pieces , whereby plaintiff hath been put to great trouble , etc . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , although a good time was had by all , a number of the team picked up a strange flu bug . |
| 6 | Colwyn Bay was the replacement for Blackpool and , although the numbers attending were not fantastic , I understand that a good time was had by all . |
| 7 | I hope it all goes very well and that a good time will be had by all . |
| 8 | It might have been that a long time ago , when people believed in prayer . |
| 9 | on er , on er , oh he sold that a long time ago , he 's built a bungalow now they live |
| 10 | Soviet officials calculated that a longer time frame would assist the USSR to stabilise a viable and desirable regime in Kabul . |
| 11 | She was still mad at Lucy for something , and Lucy was sure that a little time and concentration would tell her what … but for the moment , somehow , the knowledge was just out of reach . |
| 12 | I had with the permission of the deputy general secretary leave of conference yesterday I was in London to be told of a further nine hundred redundancies from a company that a short time ago was telling us , and if you look at my report you 'll have to delete the first paragraph where they had secured orders and the security of our members ' employment only to be told yesterday , nine hundred will go . |
| 13 | The Social Affairs Committee of the Economic and Social Research Council decided in 1983 that a national time budget study would be relevant to its general policy aims . |
| 14 | Your learned friend very fairly set the sort of orders one would expect in the case of this sort , erm , can I only add one thing which erm there is still a , failing erm his right there should have been an adjournment this morning that the question of a structured settlement could be investigated , all these people who have indeed , it must be from the plaintiff 's point of view as well , desirable that those investigations be erm carried out , with the greatest , greatest speed possible , obviously it takes time to er instruct the and so on and erm , it seemed er to me that it would be appropriate to include some of the I happen to discuss with my friend , erm providing for the matter to be brought back not later than a certain time |
| 15 | ‘ The party invitation offered these youngsters a ‘ good trip ’ rather than a good time . |
| 16 | It had been more than a long time , Erika reflected . |
| 17 | If you were more than a reasonable time , they would claim that you were failing to work your beat , or gossiping — things like that . |
| 18 | The frequency is chosen to make sure that the core reaches saturation at each alteration , but does not spend any more than a short time in this condition so as to maximise the final output signal ; the circuit should produce as many saturation signals as possible . |
| 19 | We see no reason why the word should seem strange for more than a short time . |
| 20 | Not that they expected anything other than a hard time when they visited Barnsley . |
| 21 | It is powered by a fuel-injected , 3.0-litre V6 engine which , if Nissan 's figures are correct , give it a top speed of 156mph and a 0-60mph time of 5.6 seconds . |
| 22 | She does this with every class in the school and each class has a fixed day and a fixed time . |
| 23 | A fixed part of the Order Paper and a fixed time was first set aside for questions in 1869 . |
| 24 | I I 've learnt the Pitman school but to a basic level and a long time ago and a lot of it is now forgotten . . |
| 25 | ‘ And a long time till dawn . |
| 26 | Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours . |
| 27 | Well-planned and executed night attacks on machinery and factories took place over wide districts and a long time span by men who , having set governmental authority at defiance , disappeared back into the community by day . |
| 28 | And a long time , in n it ? |
| 29 | Oh , and a second time to tell me how pleased he was . ’ |
| 30 | America is one of the few countries that , in effect , taxes corporate income twice : once as corporation tax , and a second time as personal-income tax , when the income is paid out as dividends . |