Example sentences of "[adv] a time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too long a time with any one of the above steps of the sequence would only serve to emphasise their ignorance , whereas variety offers opportunity for different kinds of engagement . |
| 2 | Or it may be that you are not introducing enough variety in your activities , either always doing things in the same few ways , or else doing the same activity for too long a time at one stretch . |
| 3 | But this was no longer a time for words . |
| 4 | Though adolescence is generally a time of intense sociability. it can also often be a time of intense loneliness . |
| 5 | Gibeau felt that we had had too easy a time of it at Canjuers and for the last three days introduced a new punishment . |
| 6 | A fact especially true of ‘ Commitment ’ , always a time for Robin 's sorrowful unshackling . |
| 7 | The teens and twenties are always a time for questioning , evaluating , making up your own mind , finding your own sense of person . |
| 8 | It is always a time of celebration . |
| 9 | Gradually most of the group began to get work , though for Nicholson it was , as he put it , still a time of preparation . |
| 10 | The Greek word eucharisto means to rejoice and give thanks , so the Eucharist or communion is hardly a time to be sad . |
| 11 | Hardly a time for complacency , yet either that or fatalistic resignation seems to have put America to sleep . |
| 12 | This is not the time to talk of the end of history — more a time for some good history lessons . |
| 13 | Too cold for frills and fancy dresses , more a time for furs . |
| 14 | These years were more a time of disturbance within the Church as Archbishop Theodore sought to reorganize its diocesan structure . |
| 15 | As short a time as a few weeks previously she had been , when not bored , repelled by his music . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As we said in Committee , eight years seems too short a time for the college to capitalise on experience gained by individual members . |
| 18 | It is particularly impressive that she was able to win such a prestigious commendation after so short a time in journalism . |
| 19 | In 1910 the German one was a tiny organisation with a staff of only three ; while in 1913 the head of its Italian equivalent pressed strongly for it to be run by journalists rather than diplomats , since the latter usually stayed too short a time in Rome to establish the necessary good relations with newspapers and correspondents . |
| 20 | Eventually a time of fish will be landed so the intricate work of life moves itself into the most unlikely corners of our power stations . |
| 21 | But it was also a time of exhaustion and tension as I desperately hurtled between work , father and family ; and of sorrow to see him suffering . |
| 22 | It 's also a time of physical and emotional change . |
| 23 | But the 5Os was also a time of the Festival of Britain , and of looking forward with hope and determination to bury the roots of hatred and grow the fruits of love . |
| 24 | It is also a time for sociability , a release from the tedium of the job . |
| 25 | The 1930s were also a time for experimental long-playing records . |
| 26 | It is also a time for reviewing your attitude to your health and well-being . ’ |
| 27 | Factors precipitating a search for birth parents include : adolescence — traditionally a time of role confusion when self-identity can come to the fore ; being unable to complete forms about family medical history and changes in personal status such as getting married , having their own children or adoptive parents dying . |
| 28 | It 's a time for few windows and we have many , and maybe it 's even a time for living in town or city with lights and movement and not just the dead nettles of the water meadow to gaze at . |
| 29 | Esther had quite as hard a time of it as Annie , one might feel , but even so , Moore 's spirited novel can be thought to settle for an anodyne poverty . |
| 30 | I felt the screws who did n't belong to this clique and did n't subscribe to it were given almost as hard a time by them as the inmates . |