Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] time [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hayling 's dummy had been a marathon performance over months , whilst Sutton had had only a short time and few people . |
| 2 | Of course , we were here for only a short time and what time we had we spent with Debbie . |
| 3 | We 've been together a long time and people in the band like Paul and Mark and Gaz have a few things to prove themselves . |
| 4 | And maybe , she thought , if I 'm lucky he 'll be away a long time and I 'll meet an interesting man . |
| 5 | His father 's been dead a long time and he has-had — two brothers . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ She has been here a long time and will be here for even longer , ’ Felipe answered smoothly . |
| 7 | This siter has been here a long time and is part of the area . |
| 8 | ‘ I moved here in September so I have only been here a short time and we have had a lot of changes in the past because of the moves Eric has made , ’ she says . |
| 9 | from er statement banks for pupils for quite a long time and why |
| 10 | We have , we have had that form kicking around for quite a long time and it 's never really been |
| 11 | We walked for quite a long time and covered a good deal of ground . |
| 12 | This takes quite a long time and slowly the boat turns around . |
| 13 | and er you know I think coming to a , a university is a thing that you know like it 's a very sort of novel experience for a lot of people and you know certainly when I started the human psych course here , you know about twelve , thirteen years ago erm you know I did n't know what on earth was , was requ required and I agonized over work for quite , quite a long time and er |
| 14 | ‘ This has been quite a punishing time and some of my family have been badly hurt . |
| 15 | Although no one will doubt their possibilities for elegance and robustness , sitting on a solid wood seat can test the limits of comfort after quite a short time and woven seats are little better . |
| 16 | The eaves , most of which are round the Mull of Oa and the northeast corner of the island , have been there a long time but are almost unexplored and very little s known about them , There is evidence that those at Port a Chotain , near Bholsa , had been occupied in the 17th or early 18th century . |
| 17 | They 'd planned to stay there a long time and they left fingerprints all over the place |
| 18 | Cos we had this mat there a long time and I think we picked . |