Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She miss you velly much a long time . |
| 2 | He estimated it would take three days a week for nine months or so , but it turned out to be very much a full time job . |
| 3 | They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story . |
| 4 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 5 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 6 | Very often one individual with only a small time commitment can carry out the initial investigation and appraisal aspects of a project , but once the scheme is under way the resource level may have to be increased in order to cater for the client 's time-scale . |
| 7 | Using the time after one has gone to bed can avoid interruptions ; 10–15 minutes per child is only a small time out of the whole day and it needs to be given high priority . |
| 8 | Usually he can spend only a limited time at one session in the tasting room as his work involves so much keen concentration . |
| 9 | Then he remembered the guard back at Wissembourg and knew he had only a limited time to cover his tracks . |
| 10 | At the same time the detailed shape of the boundary is changing ; each bulge and indentation can be identified over only a limited time . |
| 11 | Each such coherent structure is identifiable for only a limited time . |
| 12 | I loved him , as much as an alien can entertain love for a being on a green planet where she knows she has only a certain time . |
| 13 | After only a brief time in this balmy atmosphere , Constance knew that she must stay . |
| 14 | The images lingered for only a brief time before changing , the Retreat demolished in the storm of stones and a new structure raised in the whirl : the Tower of the Tabula Rasa . |
| 15 | But the problem is that this requires a teacher of genius ; and that a pupil has anyway only a brief time to get through work which has taken the lifetimes of many eminent predecessors : there must always be something artificial about heurism . |
| 16 | Sadly , Mr Cod was destined to be with them for only a short time . |
| 17 | I might have saved myself the trouble , as the family remained together for only a short time afterwards ; my sisters married , leaving only my mother and myself at home … |
| 18 | You have my soul now , all my thoughts are yours ; only a short time before you can have all of me , even my poor body which I now strive to make purer and better , healthier and stronger for that time . |
| 19 | Lonsdale 's history of women poets through the century allows them to be understood against developments in the poetry written by men whose dominance of fashion was challenged for only a short time toward the end of the period . |
| 20 | ‘ It is possible that the body was taken to the Close only a short time before it was discovered , ’ Morton said . |
| 21 | Lewes had spent only a short time with the unit , but had impressed everyone with his absolute dedication to his work . |
| 22 | The problems result from long-term exposure , so families who change homes every few years may not suffer because they are exposed to levels above the action level for only a short time . |
| 23 | Why does the snow settle for only a short time on the north west coast ? |
| 24 | Ensign Piper had been only a short time in Australia when he volunteered for duty in the convict settlement on Norfolk Island . |
| 25 | It 's only a short time to squeeze in eight gramophone records , is n't it ? |
| 26 | Incidentally , I trust that the fretwire used is up to scratch ; I 've recently seen a few Korean guitars with very soft fretwire which would probably need a re-fret after only a short time . |
| 27 | The ‘ Illustrious ’ had been subjected to vicious bombing only a short time previously , and the defending fighters had been battered by swarms of Me109s and Macchis . |
| 28 | If the ERM continues to impose on this country an unemployment rate 750,000 above what it would otherwise be — and that is the average for Europe — we have only a short time before the racist and neo-fascist plague descends on us also — which is why launching the Anti-Racist Alliance was so urgent . |
| 29 | When their mother died in 1778 she was sent away to Halifax , to stay with her mother 's cousin , Miss Elizabeth Threlkeld , for nine years ; she then lived at Penrith with her grand-parents , seeing William for only a short time , and from 1789 to 1794 was away from the Lake District again , in the care of her uncle and aunt at Forncett in Norfolk . |
| 30 | Each month lots were drawn for the names of the next families to leave , and the fortunate ones were given only a short time to make their final preparations . |