Example sentences of "[adv] a very [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | although he must be sixty odd erm and it 's obviously a very difficult time for him . |
| 2 | In practical terms , a checklist may take only a very short time to complete , providing that the teacher or therapist is familiar with the child being assessed . |
| 3 | The political and social hegemony of the Austrian bourgeoisie ( Bürgertum ) came very late , very suddenly , and lasted only a very short time . |
| 4 | Indeed on being presented with a picture , pupils may look at it for only a very short time and give only the most cursory replies when questioned about various features . |
| 5 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 6 | He was n't asleep ; it was just a very difficult time for him . |
| 7 | ‘ Good morning , Miss Broome , ’ he said , for they were not always ‘ Ianthe ’ and ‘ Mervyn ’ to each other and the early morning was usually a very formal time , ‘ I hope you 're getting settled into your new house . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ She 's been dead a very long time , has n't she ? ’ |
| 9 | It 's taken us both a very long time but I feel stronger and emotionally much more stable now . |
| 10 | This is understandably a very difficult time which may be helped by support or counselling . |
| 11 | Firstly , the Perpetual High Income which has been a consistently good performer from a good fund management group ; then Mercury 's European Income Fund on the basis that it is probably a very good time to invest in Europe , with interest rates about to fall there . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ I have got to express my admiration to residential staff , ’ but added , ‘ no matter how much support we give , it 's clearly a very distressing time . ’ |
| 13 | But he said : ‘ No matter how much support we give , it 's clearly a very distressing time . ’ |
| 14 | But it is now a very long time since I was there . ’ |
| 15 | This water had been there a very long time , and smelled no better than it should . |
| 16 | It 's been there a very long time , cos that man was old who asked me , you , you know it was an old man he said that , and I was quite young , he said er , er is that cross still there in , in Chichester , I said yes , it 's still there . |
| 17 | Most of the company wives do n't see their husbands for about sixty five per cent of the year , which is actually a very long time when you 're living in these sort of conditions . |
| 18 | It 's actually a very difficult time for us , with elections coming up . |