Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopkins advised against sending reclaimed prostitutes into domestic service because of the danger to middle-class sons : ‘ better a thousand times that this fearful social evil should be localized in certain spots , which we call dens , than by our hasty and injudicious benevolence it should be struck into the very bosom of our families . ’ |
| 2 | She miss you velly much a long time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If the spider is not to be seen , try tapping the web gently a few times . |
| 5 | Perhaps a thousand times more evil . |
| 6 | We have perhaps a little time . |
| 7 | For at about the same time I was approached by the secretary of Edinburgh 's New Club which as a member of Brooks 's Club in London I was entitled to use on a reciprocal basis , and which I did use for lunch perhaps a dozen times a year . |
| 8 | They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story . |
| 9 | I , I feel sorry for you , you mis , obviously a second time being in contact with Daniel ! |
| 10 | Apply on stained areas , dry and reapply a few times . |
| 11 | So a hundred times twenty is twenty hundred , a hundred times seven will gives us what ? |
| 12 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 13 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 14 | It was feared that wheelchair racers would arrive at roads before they had been closed off , so a fastest time limit of one hour and 50 minutes was set . |
| 15 | So a three times two |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Usually he can spend only a limited time at one session in the tasting room as his work involves so much keen concentration . |
| 19 | Then he remembered the guard back at Wissembourg and knew he had only a limited time to cover his tracks . |
| 20 | At the same time the detailed shape of the boundary is changing ; each bulge and indentation can be identified over only a limited time . |
| 21 | Each such coherent structure is identifiable for only a limited time . |
| 22 | As we look in closer to the centre , we expect the stars to be more closely packed together , and in this central pan of IRS 16 the infrared radiation comes from thousands of ordinary stars packed into a region only a hundred times larger than the Solar System . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Through one window he saw a bathroom , just like his own at home only a thousand times smaller . |
| 25 | After only a brief time in this balmy atmosphere , Constance knew that she must stay . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Sadly , Mr Cod was destined to be with them for only a short time . |
| 29 | 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 … |
| 30 | 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 . |