Example sentences of "[verb] a relatively [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can assume that in a normal working session a lexicographer will spend a relatively long time thinking as opposed to manipulating text . |
| 2 | In comparison with the inhibition effect , however , this facilitation only occurred when the subject was given a relatively long time to read the context . |
| 3 | It should be realised that the amount stocked would only have been expected to last a relatively short time . |
| 4 | This may mean that a file which operates well under normal conditions , i.e. many home records being accessed but few synonyms , may take a relatively long time to process sequentially . |
| 5 | Disposing of Giraud took a relatively short time . |
| 6 | The addiction is to the ‘ rush ’ — an experience of great pleasure which lasts a relatively short time . |
| 7 | The rain had stopped and Hunt had a relatively easy time of it to win . |
| 8 | Furthermore , the political economists had a relatively easy time pointing to the failings of the economic system of earlier years in terms of disorganization and inefficiency and the imperfections of the free market ( Cole , 1945 ) . |
| 9 | Animals that feed in these ways have a relatively easy time of it . |