Example sentences of "[prep] a very [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this pays in the results you get only after a very long time . |
| 2 | If such businesses are independent and directly answerable to the stock market , any bad investment decisions would only become apparent after a very long time . |
| 3 | But decline does not mean " cessation " , immediately or even after a very long time ; although erection will occur gradually less often , ejaculation will take longer to achieve with the passing years and the frequency of sexual intercourse tends slowly to decrease , there need not be any enormous difference sexually between a man of 20 and one of 70 . |
| 4 | Solid drinking ‘ Two years ago I had a one-day relapse after a very long time of being sober . |
| 5 | One day after a very difficult time with him , I exploded and said to him : ‘ I ca n't say that the Christian faith has made much difference to your life ! ’ |
| 6 | There was an inevitable lack of interest when rabbit stocks fell after myxomatosis , and after a very short time there was a corresponding fall in the number of ferrets retained for sporting purposes . |
| 7 | After a very short time , he stopped , and laid the bowl down . |
| 8 | I am sure that if I had been his secretary for a fortnight I should have wanted to poison him , not marry him … yes , I should have run round to the chemist 's for threepennyworth of poison after a very short time . |
| 9 | If you continue to knit , you will end up with dropped stitches and probably jam the carriage after a very short time . |
| 10 | She turned abruptly into the fitting-room and after a very short time reappeared , looking as perfect as if she had spent hours dressing instead of minutes . |
| 11 | Pros : Proves indispensable after a very short time — Power Toolbox is especially nice . |
| 12 | It seemed like a very long time ago when I and others followed Lovat into this house . |
| 13 | His colleagues , working on the flight data and cockpit voice recordings , will be able to feed in much data , also recorded against a very accurate time base which can be synchronised with the radio transcript . |
| 14 | It seems that human attention can only be sustained for a very limited time by any subject , even the prospects of its own destruction . |
| 15 | The 'phone rang for a very long time and when Mrs Pettifer eventually answered she sounded quite put out . |
| 16 | ‘ As far as the grassroots are concerned we have got one , and I hope we have her for a very long time . ’ |
| 17 | It has been a shareholder for a very long time in some private companies and I think we 've become known to be a supportive shareholder . |
| 18 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 19 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 20 | It is important to have been about for a very long time . |
| 21 | Owen O'Neil agrees : ‘ There 's no major comedy circuit in Northern Ireland in the way there is in London , but people have survived for a very long time on the strength of their own sense of humour . ’ |
| 22 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've worked together for a very long time . ’ |
| 24 | If you have been hunting for the perfect diet for a very long time it will be difficult to stop , actually to believe that good weight control can be established without resorting to one special diet that you go on ( and then , and this is the snag , come off again ) . |
| 25 | Christian festivals had coexisted for a very long time with ancient non-Christian celebrations . |
| 26 | If ever this ended , I thought , I would n't go walking in woodland for a very long time . |
| 27 | We have been a nation state for a very long time . |
| 28 | Short trousers , grubby knees , odd socks , and a pair of indescribable shoes that had belonged to his elder brother , completed the picture of a happy child , unlikely to be able to spell simple words like ‘ class ’ for a very long time . |
| 29 | Riverside conditions such as that , must have continued to exist for a very long time , for when the Romans arrived and established — about A.D.47 — a settlement astride the River Fleet where it ran into the north bank of the River Thames , the River Fleet was about two hundred yards wide at that junction . |
| 30 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |