Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know I 've been a long time on this but I 'll I think it 's nearly there . |
| 2 | Well that 's no surprise ; but it 's been a long time in coming . |
| 3 | It 's been a long time in the pipeline … |
| 4 | " I believe the house is — pretty historic — been a long time in Preston 's family , " David Fairfax went on . |
| 5 | There has never been a better time for supporting the white rose |
| 6 | As the slogan on the front of the club 's glossy new brochure proclaims : ‘ There 's never been a better time to be involved with Yorkshire Cricket . ’ |
| 7 | There has never been a better time to be a member of the Association . |
| 8 | It 's been a gloomy time in gloucestershire for industry in general , with more than a thousand jobs dissapearing from the Dowty group , the counties largest engineering employers , over the past twelve months . |
| 9 | It has been a traumatic time for everyone at Burston during the past year or so and a great deal has been achieved over a very short time . |
| 10 | The past year has been a vexing time for most research councils finding themselves in the situation of having to reduce their volume of activity within a failing budget . |
| 11 | It has been a strange time for customs officers thought Western Europe and North America . |
| 12 | It must have been a worrying time for Titfords and Hasteds alike , not to mention the rest of the inhabitants of the densely-populated riverside parishes ; the victims of the killer — or rather the remains — were laid to rest in a corner of St George 's churchyard , while the murderer himself , who eventually committed suicide , was buried with a stake through him at the top of Cannon Street where the newly-built Commercial Road crossed . |
| 13 | It must have been a testing time for the boffins at the Telecommunications Research Establishment ( TRE ) at Malvern to find an operational RAF pilot in their midst , competing with them and reducing by months the time-scale normally associated with getting things done . |
| 14 | The last two or three years have been a testing time for the 180 people who work at Angered . |
| 15 | ‘ It would 've been a bad time for t'road between t'two farms ti be blocked wi' snow . ’ |
| 16 | The late 1920s and '30s seems to have been a bad time in the Woodchester area for fires . |
| 17 | Many secondees had been a considerable time in their pre-secondment posts and were looking for variety . |
| 18 | This has been a painful time for you . ’ |
| 19 | The Trevino era has been a special time of my life and he 's made me feel special . |
| 20 | It had been a difficult time for everyone , but especially Diana , who was perhaps closest to her father of all the children . |
| 21 | It 's been a difficult time for the sales and marketing team at Thame in Oxfordshire . |
| 22 | ‘ We have lost four games recently that we never deserved to lose so it 's been a hard time for us . |
| 23 | She said the Edinburgh summit had been a tense time for the family when it seemed all Mr Garel-Jones ' work on Maastricht could have come to nothing . |
| 24 | It has been a busy time in London , with new contracts across the city . |
| 25 | Wise men are a long time in the ship |
| 26 | Your sister will have been busy rehearsing , must be a hectic time for her . |
| 27 | There will therefore be a reasonable time within which the seller will be able to reject the buyer 's terms . |
| 28 | Well it 's gon na be a long time off that yet , another half an hour |
| 29 | The TRW group is working on the same lines-but it will be a long time before GI Joe puts his faith in orders from General Computer . |
| 30 | Three years can be a long time in a young life , Bernice concluded , and three years in Bernice 's century had certainly changed Ace . |