Example sentences of "[be] a [adj] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise , it feels those RISC-based machines its new Power Parallel operation is developing ( UX No 422 ) will be a long long time in becoming hardened and a significant contributor . |
| 2 | No similar proposal was made in relation to Class B applications , but it was recommended that there should be a strict three-month time limit . |
| 3 | The latter may be in many small chunks of time adding up to a large commitment , or it may be a single large time requirement . |
| 4 | dis I mean , it 's a bloody long time that train in n it ? |
| 5 | You know , it 's a nice quiet time of the year , we 're up to peak and busy up till Christmas , but in January we are a bit quiet , and this year it has n't been a bit quiet . |
| 6 | And that 's a long long time ago . ’ |
| 7 | IT 'S a long long time from May to September … |
| 8 | It 's a long long time since I had it . |
| 9 | With the exception of Blitzer and Block Breaker , both of which I can do without , this is a decent little time wasting package . |
| 10 | From this he argued that , since only the present ‘ is ’ , it follows that past and future are alike meaningless , the only time is a continual present time and what exists is both uncreated and imperishable . |
| 11 | But firstly it 's a , it is a special religious time . |
| 12 | Well thank you Peter , yes I 've got the man of the moment with me — Andy Melville , absolutely delighted erm oh , it was a frustrating old time was n't it , what an important goal . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're sweet , ’ said Lucy , stroking her face , holding her hand , ‘ but it was a long long time ago . |
| 14 | Was a long long time ago . |
| 15 | Oh that was a good long time ago was n't it ? |
| 16 | However , the discovery that the speed of light appeared the same to every observer , no matter how he was moving , led to the theory of relativity — and in that one had to abandon the idea that there was a unique absolute time . |