Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This 24 hours is only two-thirds of the 36 hours available ; it should be considered a minimum time to allocate to private study . |
| 2 | Not only for myself as it 's been a particular project close to me for many years , but for the break up of a team , a team that has a long time to build up and a team that worked very well together and who were very committed . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , apparently she only has a short time to live ; David came back to be with her — he 's even living at Brooklands . ’ |
| 4 | If , however , a bond only has a short time left to maturity , it will be much more liquid : its market price will be near its face value . |
| 5 | Couple this with a quality assessment system which is riddled with jargon and technical description and the caterer has a hard time deciding what he or she is going to buy and from which company . |
| 6 | You may want ( and need ) to choose a suitable time to reaffirm these vows again to each other . |
| 7 | It seemed a good time to make my excuses and leave , and I did both . ’ |
| 8 | And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so |
| 9 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |
| 10 | Today , several men would spend a considerable time erecting steel scaffolding before such a job would be attempted . |
| 11 | They 've had a long time to crack a lot of these problems pardon |
| 12 | After all , they have had a long time to become used to them . |
| 13 | ‘ He has had a sad time looking for work in London and intends to go back to the North-East with his parents as soon as possible , ’ said David Martin , defending . |
| 14 | The agency account man must have had a sticky time explaining that one to the client . |
| 15 | With these objects , in their millennium of power , the Celts seem to have had a splendid time scraping and whipping Europe into shape . |
| 16 | for referral to the Parliamentary Commissioner or a Local Councillor for referral to the Local Commissioner , although it must be remembered that the Local Commissioner can only investigate after a complaint has been brought to the attention of the authority complained against and they have had a reasonable time to reply . |
| 17 | Even Disney , the most successful studio of the late 1980s , has had a tough time launching Hollywood Pictures , the baby sister of its Touchstone studio . |
| 18 | He could have worked things out the same way I had , and he 'd have had a hellish time believing it all of his own son . |
| 19 | Ian and Barbara meet — the latter having had a difficult time avoiding Nero 's amorous advances — and with the help of Tavius ( who is a Christian ) , they manage to escape from the city . |
| 20 | ‘ I have had a wonderful time trying to select flowers that will complement each of you . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's had a hard time getting into the world , ’ Elizabeth replied . |
| 22 | Even a political genius coming to power in propitious circumstances would have had a hard time meeting all these claims on him . |
| 23 | When I was a boy — just 30 years ago — a store like this would have had a hard time surviving in this small mid-Western Canadian city . |
| 24 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 25 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 26 | He was prepared to wait a long time to gain the king 's good will , and meanwhile to support the king in his enterprises . |
| 27 | In February 1989 the proposed new terms and conditions were outlined by letter to staff and , after subsequent fruitless negotiations with the unions , in April 1989 a notice was sent informing the employees that the changes would be discussed with them , that they would be given a reasonable time to consider the new contracts and that they would be dismissed if they did not accept them . |
| 28 | If the University requires a prime time slot on , for example , a Saturday , it may be necessary for the Club to seek sponsorship . |
| 29 | Since it takes a certain time to reach its working temperature and cool down again , it would not be able to follow the changes satisfactorily . |
| 30 | It takes a long time to reach Dynjandi , but the weather improves as the day wears on , leaving me with wonderful views across the Arnarfjörđ3ur , its far peaks wreathed in clouds . |