Example sentences of "[verb] a very [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | However desirable this might be , in a highly complex and differentiated society such as ours this undertaking would need a very long time given our present methods , resources and interests . |
| 2 | → When you think of Fender 's seeming unwillingness to bring the reissues of the Indie-cred Jaguar into this country , Jim , I think we 'll probably wait a very long time before a Bass VI emanates from anywhere other than the Fender Custom Shop — a facility available to the wad-carrying fanatic . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'll wait a very long time to do that , ’ he gritted . |
| 4 | It is quite clear that in any examination the examiner has a very short time to spend on any individual question . |
| 5 | ‘ This is something I should 'ave done a very long time ago . |
| 6 | In some ways those days when she had lived in Paula 's shadow seemed a very long time ago , in others they might have been just yesterday . |
| 7 | It seemed a very long time to Lee before the shadowy adults who surrounded the game moved in on the victim and she wondered why she found herself so static , impotent , so lost . |
| 8 | It seemed a very long time before he came back . |
| 9 | I waited , cold and tired , in his room for what seemed a very long time . |
| 10 | She talked to me for what seemed a very long time . |
| 11 | We stood there , all four of us , in silence for what seemed a very long time . |
| 12 | In what seemed a very short time the plane began to come down and bits of northern Italy could be seen below . |
| 13 | Thus it would seem that the ‘ dawn of civilisation ’ , so often quoted in a context suggesting that it represents a fairly finite occurrence taking a relatively short space of time , did , in all probability cover a very long time indeed , perhaps many thousands of years . |
| 14 | Her mother had died a very short time ago , in reality , and Jenna had been more than capable of dealing with her own well-being . |
| 15 | You could spend a very long time , trying to understand that woman . " |
| 16 | They seem a very long time ago now . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's had a very unhappy time . |
| 18 | By the time Corrie 's wedding took place Philippa was over the worst of her sadness and in a good position to enjoy it to the full — ; the closest to the centre of the ceremonies , yet fancy free ; and she had had a very good time — much affectionate sympathy from aunts and cousins , and husbands of aunts and cousins , and admiration and flirtation and kissing enough . |
| 19 | ‘ We are forecasting a very exciting time developing our activities in London and we will continue to gear our services to the clients requirements and ensure that our approach is a refreshing change . ’ |
| 20 | Those actively interested in diamonds will have to wait a very long time before they will be able to put their hands on these cosmic ornaments . |
| 21 | You mean I 'll have to wait a very long time . |
| 22 | This year I could only stay a very short time , as I had to get out to Cliveden for a charity ball the same evening . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman need not think that there is any military support for the idea that in the past the Navy has argued for a three-boat solution , and he will be given a very rough time by the Navy if he makes such a suggestion . |
| 24 | I had been given a very short time to assimilate the books of poetry and to write the review : a time-limit that would have been almost impossible for me to meet today , so much more sluggish has my mind become ; but I felt that if Eliot thought I could do the job , it was doubtless within my capacity . |
| 25 | Flowers such as strelitzias , anthuriums and orchids last a very long time and are well worth taking home — some flower shops will pack them specially for export . |
| 26 | But it 's expensive , useless as an insulator when wet and takes a very long time to dry . |
| 27 | If this is the case , the changes of the past 30 years may be the first signs of a return to the more traditional population distribution of pre-industrial Britain , but it must also be borne in mind that it takes a very long time to shift major population patterns , and that the present trends may only be a veneer on an underlying and more permanent structure . |
| 28 | In terms of a human life-span , the development of a hill-slope takes a very long time , and one could not stay around long enough to test alternative theories of hill-slope development if observation of processes acting on the present landscape produced the only relevant data . |
| 29 | Er , what companies can do , or should seek to do , is of course , see if they can manage round those tensions as well , but it takes a very long time to do that . |
| 30 | For her part , Mrs Thatcher emphasised that the references to future German unity in the declaration was ‘ a very carefully drafted section and we spent a very long time on it ’ . |