Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each month lots were drawn for the names of the next families to leave , and the fortunate ones were given only a short time to make their final preparations . |
| 2 | I loved him , as much as an alien can entertain love for a being on a green planet where she knows she has only a certain time . |
| 3 | They are oh I do n't ken when but they must you ken obviously a long time ago story . |
| 4 | A spokesman for Hampshire police said : ‘ It seems Mrs Soper died and then her husband passed away a short time later . |
| 5 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 6 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 7 | Some students find it best to set aside a regular time each week ( perhaps at the weekend ) to file all the notes taken during the previous week . |
| 8 | Literally speaking , ephemera are things that last only a day ; in the more accepted sense , things destined to endure only a short time ; but , by a curious paradox , in the most modern sense , things which have , in fact , long survived their predestined span . |
| 9 | Hayling 's dummy had been a marathon performance over months , whilst Sutton had had only a short time and few people . |
| 10 | Usually he can spend only a limited time at one session in the tasting room as his work involves so much keen concentration . |
| 11 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed . |
| 13 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 14 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 15 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |
| 16 | The feeding process takes quite a long time , depending of course on the sizes of the individuals concerned and various environmental factors , such as temperature ( see p. 303 ) . |
| 17 | Erm something they tell you throughout the , it takes quite a long time . |
| 18 | This takes quite a long time and slowly the boat turns around . |
| 19 | For companies like , pitching to investors has become virtually a full time job . |
| 20 | Wolfgang , meanwhile , was having rather a good time in Vienna on his own , staying sometimes with his friends Leutgeb the horn-player and the Puchbergs , who kept him fed , and going out drinking with an old friend , Emmanuel Schikaneder , an actor , singer , writer and producer and the manager of the Theater auf der Wieden in the suburbs . |
| 21 | Lewes had spent only a short time with the unit , but had impressed everyone with his absolute dedication to his work . |
| 22 | And er then it seems to keep quite a long time if er if you do that . |
| 23 | Charles Wood and I worked quite a long time to explore the framework of The Knack and take away a lot of the theatrical implications . |
| 24 | However , if a tank bottom with some peat and gravel or sand is provided it will establish well , but will take quite a long time . |
| 25 | We 'll have to see how she responds to treatment , but it may take quite a long time . ’ |
| 26 | But it 'll take quite a long time for them to go though . |
| 27 | It 's gon na take quite a long time . |
| 28 | So it can take quite a long time to process applications to that point . |
| 29 | it seems quite a long time |
| 30 | He recorded again a short time later : The overseers are harassed to death and summoned everyday before a justice , this will never do … |