Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gibeau felt that we had had too easy a time of it at Canjuers and for the last three days introduced a new punishment . |
| 2 | I 'll stay as short a time as I can . ’ |
| 3 | As we said in Committee , eight years seems too short a time for the college to capitalise on experience gained by individual members . |
| 4 | She was immobile , cruelly transfixed , but in the very moment of immobility she saw most clearly a time when such moments need not be . |
| 5 | As a result , it was almost 20 years before I managed as slow a time as 13.3 again . |
| 6 | Erm , I doubt if you 'll get too hard a time from us . |
| 7 | The Builder commented that the submission date of 1st February , 1857 gave too short a time and that it was a mistake to divide the competition into three parts . |
| 8 | Since Brusilov had not concentrated his troops in any one area , nor made tactical probes , and since the artillery bombardment lasted so short a time , the Austrians had no inkling of his intentions . |
| 9 | In an article in Nature , Susan Solomon and Daniel Albritton of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration argue that policy makers may have been using too long a time scale to measure the destructive potential of CFCs , halons and their substitutes . |
| 10 | Was it because he had no hope that he had lasted so short a time ? |
| 11 | In 1910 the German one was a tiny organisation with a staff of only three ; while in 1913 the head of its Italian equivalent pressed strongly for it to be run by journalists rather than diplomats , since the latter usually stayed too short a time in Rome to establish the necessary good relations with newspapers and correspondents . |