Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brenda , her eyes suddenly alighting on a round milk stain on the table cloth , herself thought that breakfast was n't perhaps the most suitable time for a display of her recently acquired information about the investigation of rape . |
| 2 | although he must be sixty odd erm and it 's obviously a very difficult time for him . |
| 3 | We were told , of course , that i& only a little more time could be provided a satisfactory solution might emerge . |
| 4 | In practical terms , a checklist may take only a very short time to complete , providing that the teacher or therapist is familiar with the child being assessed . |
| 5 | The political and social hegemony of the Austrian bourgeoisie ( Bürgertum ) came very late , very suddenly , and lasted only a very short time . |
| 6 | Indeed on being presented with a picture , pupils may look at it for only a very short time and give only the most cursory replies when questioned about various features . |
| 7 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 8 | The closing stages of the decade are not the most satisfactory time for a description and analysis of the latest trends in the spatial distribution of population ! |
| 9 | ‘ Give me just a little more time , ’ said Karen . |
| 10 | give me just a little more time |
| 11 | Give me just a little more time and our love will surely show |
| 12 | He was n't asleep ; it was just a very difficult time for him . |
| 13 | They have usually taken part in a preparatory programme through social services or the health authority , but once out of institutional care , the fragile skills , sometimes learnt over a painfully slow time , can be lost through lack of use . |
| 14 | Grammatical change occurs over a much longer time scale than lexical change . |
| 15 | The Eighties were not a particularly good time for the young . |
| 16 | He told the committee : ‘ It is not a very good time for extending the scope of legal aid . |
| 17 | ‘ Good morning , Miss Broome , ’ he said , for they were not always ‘ Ianthe ’ and ‘ Mervyn ’ to each other and the early morning was usually a very formal time , ‘ I hope you 're getting settled into your new house . ’ |
| 18 | Experts now solve the problem by placing them in a separate order which , they believe , branched off a very long time ago and did not lead to more advanced forms . |
| 19 | Napoleon 's retreat from Moscow was possibly a more trying time for his troops . |
| 20 | ‘ She 's been dead a very long time , has n't she ? ’ |
| 21 | March is probably the most exciting time of all , when the frogs and newts return to family ponds to breed . |
| 22 | ‘ Diana 's few kinds words meant so much to Laura at probably the most difficult time in her life . ’ |
| 23 | Oddly enough , however , it was also a highly confusing time , as the debate — in this country at least — took place at arms length . |
| 24 | It 's taken us both a very long time but I feel stronger and emotionally much more stable now . |
| 25 | This is understandably a very difficult time which may be helped by support or counselling . |
| 26 | So you did , and used up a little more time . |
| 27 | Firstly , the Perpetual High Income which has been a consistently good performer from a good fund management group ; then Mercury 's European Income Fund on the basis that it is probably a very good time to invest in Europe , with interest rates about to fall there . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ I have got to express my admiration to residential staff , ’ but added , ‘ no matter how much support we give , it 's clearly a very distressing time . ’ |
| 29 | But he said : ‘ No matter how much support we give , it 's clearly a very distressing time . ’ |
| 30 | Once again the Padre urged his listeners to repent because now the most dangerous time of all was at hand , and he repeated the words he had read earlier : " His fan is in his hand , and he will purge his floor , and gather his wheat into the barn ; but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire . " |