Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CEGB would perhaps be more fully convincing in its argument on fuel diversity if it could show that it had more real commitment to the development and use over a long time scale of renewable-energy technologies . |
| 2 | You take rather a long time sometimes to find something that fits in but you do in the end . ’ |
| 3 | We to put the decorations up in th in a s in a short time limit , the decorations take quite a long time to put up and as you know the decorations are erm are very famous er they 're nationally recognized . |
| 4 | If the ERM continues to impose on this country an unemployment rate 750,000 above what it would otherwise be — and that is the average for Europe — we have only a short time before the racist and neo-fascist plague descends on us also — which is why launching the Anti-Racist Alliance was so urgent . |
| 5 | I am now in Capt. Friend 's office and have only a short time to write before the post leaves . |
| 6 | Panic will not be too far away if having collected all your information you have only a little time to write the speech . |
| 7 | I shall not give way to my hon. Friend , as I believe that I have done so once already and I have only a little time left . |
| 8 | But you also have only a little time . |