Example sentences of "[pron] [is] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is a long time to go without It . |
| 2 | I suppose , after all , I 've had it since ‘ 66 , so I 've been well known for 26 years , which is a long time , and I do n't get anything much out of it any more . ’ |
| 3 | My father had a and he said it would be forty seven , say it would likely be forty seven , but that 's forty seven is two year eight month away , which is a long time for me to keep it going . |
| 4 | I think candidates who are thinking of applying for entry in nineteen eighty-five , who are now say seventeen coming on eighteen , have got three or four years ahead of them at university , which is a considerable time , and if nothing else , university will make them question themselves , what their interests are , and they 'll introduce them to new subjects , new areas of study , and it may be a mistake to embark on a vocational course , and discover halfway through that actually it 's not what you want to do . |
| 5 | And on the far end is Ed who 's a full time UNIS UNISON officer . |
| 6 | Yes she is a full time worker |
| 7 | John , who is a full time shift worker , has been polishing off most the Peak 's F8a+ in good time , having also recently red-pointed Boat Boys , Chimes of Freedom as well as making the 6th ascent of Zeke the Freak ( F8b ) . |
| 8 | but there 's a right time and a wrong time for doing it , see cos basically if you were getting the money , the phone calls that were , that were done a since Christmas right , I 'm not sure how the bill runs , it probably runs December , January , February er I think they run a quarter on the phone bill , and its a three month period |
| 9 | ‘ Well , there 's a first time for everything , as I m sure you remember , Mrs Cornforth … |
| 10 | There 's a seven-hour time difference . ’ |
| 11 | THERE is a first time for everything : Aladdin was the first panto I 'd been to and the first Frank Bruno has performed in . |
| 12 | properly will depend on either the specific instructions given to him or arguments about the implied duties of an expert conducting a reference : for three possible examples , see 14.8 , 14.9 and 14.10. a breach of the implied duty under s14 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 , unless there is a specific time provision or the duty has been expressly excluded by agreement with the parties . |
| 13 | There is a set time allowed for the council to receive comments on an application . |
| 14 | There is a long time until anyone has to think about Christmas shopping . |
| 15 | The intuition behind this result is that , when there is a long time to the delivery date , there is still much time for new information to affect the delivery price , and therefore any single piece of information is relatively unimportant . |
| 16 | The method can work if there is a long time for the change-over , if both channels can be kept open and if it does not matter that the two systems are being used haphazardly . |
| 17 | The current yield is therefore only really useful when there is a long time to maturity , in which case the capital gain or loss element will be small . |
| 18 | There is a three-month time limit , which can only be extended for good reasons . |
| 19 | ( Weeping ) There is a proper time and place to tell children . |
| 20 | There is a natural time scale to the experiment , charging the cells , inducing the phenomenon for hundreds of hours and monitoring at different currents ; you can not hurry science . |
| 21 | There is a statutory time limit of six years for claims under contracts under hand , and twelve if the contract is under seal : Limitation Act 1980 ss5 and 8 . |
| 22 | Erm because he would like to make a comment on the exceptions policy , he has n't been invited to participate tomorrow , er I have exercised some latitude and said yes I will be happy to hear what he has to say , erm there is a prescribed time limit of which he is aware . |
| 23 | They 've got to be moved and I it 's , it 's , it 's a tremendous time |
| 24 | But it 's a low time is n't it ? |
| 25 | It 's a dangerous time . |
| 26 | It 's a critical time to be abandoning the plot . |
| 27 | It 's a strange time to rejoin the Tories . |
| 28 | It 's a one time thing , it just happened |
| 29 | It 's a good time . |
| 30 | As you prepare to give your patch of grass its final once-over , it 's a good time to make sure you are n't going to be a tragic statistic next year . |