Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] time of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young Paul Gascoigne has a torrid time of it at the hands of the opposition in a league football match back in 1989 . |
| 2 | The latter film has a playing time of twenty minutes . |
| 3 | Job B has an estimated time of 3 units , so the early finish of B is 4 + 3 = 7 . |
| 4 | Job B has an estimated time of 3 units , so the early finish of B is 4 + 3 = 7 . |
| 5 | The visitors ' early grip in midfield assured a testing time of it for the home defence , and they ought to have secured a greater half-time advantage than that supplied them by Mixu Paatelainen 's glorious second-minute header . |
| 6 | He had rung through to the Swan Hotel in Stratford to set a revised time of arrival at 6.15 p.m. ; but by the look of things it was going to be , in Wellington 's words , ‘ a damn close-run thing ’ . |
| 7 | For example a particular combination of kinetic and chemical energy at a certain temperature may give a cleaning time of ten minutes . |
| 8 | The quantitative details of classical electromagnetism yield an estimated time of about 10 -8 seconds for this collapse to occur . |
| 9 | I remember myself , one time we had we had two grand fields and it were They were almost ripe when it came an awful time of rain , and they were just a sort of flattened . |
| 10 | He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front . |
| 11 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
| 12 | But they have not had an easy time of it , as much of the garden was originally covered by a concrete driveway , and the soil , though fertile had a layer of ironstone at about the depth you need to plan shrubs . |
| 13 | The 32-year-old French film director has just flown into London from LA , and has not had an easy time of it . |
| 14 | Take That have n't had an easy time of it breaking into the big time . |
| 15 | The Swans are playing some outstanding rugby these days and , although they were given a hard time of it against Dunvant in the last round , it is always difficult to combat gritty opponents who feel they have nothing to lose . |
| 16 | According to Computerworld , Softlab recently offered $350m for the company — which has been experiencing a rough time of late , reporting mid-term losses of $3.5m back in January . |
| 17 | When the VHS system was launched in Britain five years ago , a single tape speed ( 2.34 cm/s ) was chosen to give a playing time of three hours per cassette . |
| 18 | The January 1991 fawn bitch , by Airmount Grand out of Mineola Tina , has been graded A2 after three trials , producing an eye-catching time of 31.40 secs . |
| 19 | First , she recorded a personal time of 7.80 seconds when finishing second in the 60 metres at the Scottish National Championships . |
| 20 | If your attitude to me is anything to go by , Petula must have a thin time of it . ’ |
| 21 | Jaye was brought up in Hertfordshire and did n't have a happy time of it . |
| 22 | It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan . |
| 23 | The engine was recorded as having a total time of 302.30 hours at the time of the accident . |
| 24 | If we four were representatives of our platoon , it was understandable that the staff were having a tough time of it , pretending that we were all the same — physically , socially and morally . |
| 25 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 26 | The poor old dear has been having a hard time of late . |
| 27 | The Greek revolt was seen by European liberals who in a sense might be having a hard time of it in in , in those years . |
| 28 | Reed Canoes & Camping of Cambridge have been amongst the retailers having a difficult time of late . |
| 29 | British deaf men and women were spared much of this horror , and went on with their lives , but they were having a grim time of it too . |
| 30 | Got to be a cobbler round who is having a lean time of it . ’ |