Example sentences of "[adv] be a time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their first years together were a time of grinding poverty . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's not a bad man , ’ the girl said , and there was a slight tremble in her voice ; she knew that things had gone wrong for her father , and that there would soon be a time of parting . |
| 3 | But however bad a year it has been , Christmas should always be a time of hope and happiness . |
| 4 | It will also be a time of rejoicing and feasting in the Messianic banquet ( Matt. |
| 5 | Retirement is a time of great change and should also be a time for development . |
| 6 | Though adolescence is generally a time of intense sociability. it can also often be a time of intense loneliness . |
| 7 | She spoke sadly , as though to a twenty-four-year-old there really was a time of lost innocence , and I suppose , if the twenty-four-year-old was a cocaine addict , then there was indeed such a time . |
| 8 | In fact , the next two or three days may well be a time of harsh words and even harsher realities , particularly on the work front . |
| 9 | As the protagonist in Kafka 's Conversation with a Suppliant confessed : ‘ There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive . ’ |
| 10 | There has never been a time in economic history when comparative advantage was less static . |
| 11 | ‘ Our message is that there has never been a time like this to pick up a bargain , ’ a spokeswoman said . |
| 12 | Next year will certainly be a time for married women although their husbands will also be able to benefit from the personal tax changes which come into force on April 6 . |
| 13 | When , in 1808 , the cotton weavers were forced to work a sixteen-hour day for a subsistence wage , they complained bitterly : " there never was a time before the present when the workman could not live by his trade " . |