Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a triumph of planning in so short a time for so complicated a matter , most of it carried through in most places within a year or two years of the passing of the act . |
| 2 | It is particularly impressive that she was able to win such a prestigious commendation after so short a time in journalism . |
| 3 | It was clearly not a time for any angry rejoinder and she almost fled to the kitchen , her heart beating like a hammer . |
| 4 | Esther had quite as hard a time of it as Annie , one might feel , but even so , Moore 's spirited novel can be thought to settle for an anodyne poverty . |
| 5 | I felt the screws who did n't belong to this clique and did n't subscribe to it were given almost as hard a time by them as the inmates . |
| 6 | But this was no longer a time for words . |
| 7 | Or it may be that you are not introducing enough variety in your activities , either always doing things in the same few ways , or else doing the same activity for too long a time at one stretch . |
| 8 | Too long a time with any one of the above steps of the sequence would only serve to emphasise their ignorance , whereas variety offers opportunity for different kinds of engagement . |
| 9 | Gibeau felt that we had had too easy a time of it at Canjuers and for the last three days introduced a new punishment . |
| 10 | As we said in Committee , eight years seems too short a time for the college to capitalise on experience gained by individual members . |
| 11 | In 1910 the German one was a tiny organisation with a staff of only three ; while in 1913 the head of its Italian equivalent pressed strongly for it to be run by journalists rather than diplomats , since the latter usually stayed too short a time in Rome to establish the necessary good relations with newspapers and correspondents . |
| 12 | Erm , I doubt if you 'll get too hard a time from us . |
| 13 | Never again a time with such opportunity as from the train that plodded across the flat wilderness lands on the way to the East . |