Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 Oh yes , did that at the beginning for for a long time .
2 And no-one looked more livelier than Denis Hollywood in the last seven minutes of a contest that will be talked about for a long time to come .
3 However , that is what I am paid for as a full- time member of staff .
4 of for a long time ) and this was a puzzle still to be solved , but at least there seemed to be some evidence that fusion was happening , proving their original hypothesis .
5 The National Council for Women 's ‘ Charter for Women 's Health ’ launched in September calls for the right to knowledge , participation in health-care decisions , opportunity for choice , provision for quality care , accessible health care & the right to a healthy lifestyle ( All issues that the NCT has been working towards for a long time ) .
6 Kate could n't even justify it by saying it was a boy Lizzy loved , whom her daughter had been with for a long time and so sex was a natural progression .
7 ‘ And since it 's been over and finished with for a long time , there does n't seem any point in discussing it , especially right now .
8 Erm it maybe that in this alteration the erm it 's worth just spending a minute on whether B eight should just be kept out of the frame for the moment and it 's something that gets dealt with at a later time when more policies are in play .
9 What does four stand for in an ordinary time signature ?
10 Erm what a situation we 're in when you ca n't get your appeal through in a reasonable time and it actually results in that sort of nonsense taking place .
11 He brought with him into the Treasury few old prejudices beyond the self-confidence of his conviction that whatever he believed in at a particular time was right .
12 Said a lot of things I 've been meaning to for a long time . ’
13 So , today , the SAAF still has three Dakota units and looks set to for a long time to come .
14 An abacus uses human gall-stones on taut human sinew , the rocking horse has a semi-skeletal head , a set of wooden toy soldiers all have subtle mutations when looked at for a second time , and so on .
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