Example sentences of "[noun pl] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Replacing his spectacles a final time , he looked me up and down once more and said : " You will be going out to meet the public every day , you know . |
| 2 | ‘ Some residents who were moved after the last round of home closures are now faced with losing their homes a second time , ’ said Mr Common . |
| 3 | They were then asked to listen to the voices a second time and say whether each was " black , white or other " , giving a confidence rating . |
| 4 | She had stayed at the baths a long time , probably getting a chill , but worst of all no-one would testify that the water in the pool had had a proper dose of chlorine . |
| 5 | It had taken the mice a long time to explore , they had made short excited scurrying runs across the floor , then back to the hutch , nervous , unsure , limiting themselves to a small prescribed space , only later stepping out of it , extending their freedom . |
| 6 | Your people ripped off the land from the Indians a long time ago . |
| 7 | In 1982 after Mexico said it was unable to pay its debts , the IMF ( International Monetary Fund ) moved to prevent a crisis , and in return for giving debtor countries a longer time to pay , the IMF laid down austerity measures — with dire consequences for the poor . |
| 8 | ‘ There was a meeting of local conservatives a short time before Prime Minister John Major visited the province in April with Sir Patrick Feldon . |
| 9 | Unconvinced of the healing powers of art , they can give artists-in-residence a hard time . |
| 10 | Phone calls are thoroughly screened ; people have to make appointments a long time in advance . |
| 11 | And the funny thing was , instead of being resentful of the changes , everybody seemed happier , seemed to have more sense of purpose , more enthusiasm for giving the guests a good time , instead of having one themselves . |
| 12 | The meeting is open to the public but expect Taylor to give the banks a hard time . |
| 13 | But I learnt to control my baser urges a long time ago . |
| 14 | This not only gives guidebook compilers a hard time but also stops new lines getting repeated while the weather 's good . |
| 15 | It took the mantri a long time to work right round the bull , from shoulder to rump down one side and then from rump to shoulder back up the other . |
| 16 | THE ‘ Grim Reaper ’ of ice hockey explained the role he has at Wembley Arena today : ‘ I go out and do a job on anyone who is giving our top scorers a hard time . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Of course , I go out to give defenders a hard time — it 's part of my job . |
| 18 | He 's not dirty at all — he just gives defenders a hard time . |
| 19 | mathematicians a long time but it does help . |
| 20 | But as we have seen , the law in some cases allows anyone with a genuine interest to make an application for judicial review , and it may take such persons a considerable time to find out about the decision they want to challenge . |
| 21 | ‘ It has taken many geologists a long time to accept plate tectonics ’ , Dr Blake told New Scientist at the survey 's west coast headquarters in Menlo Park , south of San Francisco . |
| 22 | CA reported that the Olympus lap-top had had to be returned to suppliers a second time , due to a defective mother-board . |
| 23 | I 've been in steam stations as well as steam turbines a long time since but with steam you can use it over again . |
| 24 | After allowing passengers a short time at Barmouth , the engines were exchanged and 75069 , hauling the London train , left at 1530 , crossed the local in Tywyn at 1600 , left Tywyn at 1620 , arrived Machynlleth at 1650 and departed at 1716 , on its way to Shrewsbury . |
| 25 | I emerged from its jaws a short time later , however , as I could n't bear the heat — My water wave fell down ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We were friends a long time ago , during the war . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ They were friends a long time ago . |
| 28 | This was so important that for each of the national developments a full time National Development Officer ( NDO ) was seconded for a year from a college . |
| 29 | As you can see from the photos a good time was had by all ! |
| 30 | If anyone had prevented Elinor from being an oil executive , or a leading novelist and short-story writer , it was Elinor 's mother , a small , heavily built woman with a squint , who lived very near the Sellafield atomic reactor. principally because Elinor 's mother was completely without talent for anything apart from giving men a hard time and had , presumably , passed on her genes to her daughter . |