Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 2 | He puts so much into it , and expects so much every time . |
| 3 | Er so I mean they were in use more or less all the time but er it was it was n't , it was n't too bad , better than a lot of hospitals had . |
| 4 | The new Act abolished the old method of arranging with creditors by a deed of composition , assignment or otherwise ‘ which has for so long a time disgraced our law ’ . |
| 5 | So much peace and plenty , for so long a time . |
| 6 | It was , wrote the best-known and most influential of them , the Abbe de Saint-Pierre , ‘ that vain Idol to which the Nations have Sacrificed so blindly , so fruitlessly , and for so long a Time , so much Blood and Treasure ’ . |
| 7 | I mean , after so long a time . |
| 8 | This is obviously not the time for celebratory gestures . |
| 9 | Now was obviously not the time to confront Feargal and ask what the devil he 'd been talking about . |
| 10 | So short a time ago they had found and shared a grassy path in a brief Eden of summerblue skies , tapestry green and flowered meadows , every day a delight , the world a beautiful old master cleaned in the zephyr of Lucy 's being . |
| 11 | One might well ask what has happened to transform the public mood from complacency to crisis in so short a time . |
| 12 | This is a tremendous response in so short a time . |
| 13 | Sceptics doubt the influence of the press , however , and especially whether it could have so much influence in so short a time . |
| 14 | It is particularly impressive that she was able to win such a prestigious commendation after so short a time in journalism . |
| 15 | Was it because he had no hope that he had lasted so short a time ? |
| 16 | Since Brusilov had not concentrated his troops in any one area , nor made tactical probes , and since the artillery bombardment lasted so short a time , the Austrians had no inkling of his intentions . |
| 17 | Despite all the obvious practical difficulties that Edward encountered in maintaining the siege , its abandonment after so short a time must raise questions about the extent of his commitment , even at this stage of the war , to the French throne . |
| 18 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 19 | It was a triumph of planning in so short a time for so complicated a matter , most of it carried through in most places within a year or two years of the passing of the act . |
| 20 | If the interval during which he kept his eyes closed was very short , say one second , he could maintain that we could not have exchanged our places in so short a time and invoke the laws of physics in support of his view . |
| 21 | So much change , in so short a time ; Pete felt as if he 'd aged more in ten weeks than in the ten years that had gone before . |
| 22 | I would remember , against my will , the fragrance of coffee and hot bread , the energy that had possessed me so short a time ago , when I had felt supple as an eel , as powerful as a salmon , as sure and quiet and graceful as an owl . |
| 23 | So short a time ago ? |
| 24 | I suppose the defendant thought he had some benefit ; at any rate , there is a detriment to the plaintiff from his parting with the possession for even so short a time . |
| 25 | So short a time , Charlotte realised with a shock , that he could not possibly have returned home in the meantime , since he was a close neighbour of the Bodens , who lived ten miles from Aurae Phiala . |
| 26 | Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade . |
| 27 | How could she have possibly imagined how dramatically her feelings towards him would have changed in so short a time ? |
| 28 | And here she is , so short a time after , widowed and childless , with nothing gained and much lost . |
| 29 | I knew her so short a time . ’ |
| 30 | Could one fall in love in so short a time ? |