Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 All through the African campaign I longed to hear from you , and found it hard at times to keep a stiff upper lip without your help .
2 We found it hard at times , but my players showed character and that was what earned them both points . ’
3 Critics of policies of that period like Samuel Brittan have suggested that chancellors found it difficult to time their uses of the economic ‘ brake ’ or ‘ accelerator ’ properly , and that the ‘ stop-go ’ pattern that emerged provided a poor economic environment for investment decisions , and thus inhibited British growth .
4 The data sheets described a wide range of shades of co-operative activity in the planning , developing , or running of programmes , which made it inappropriate at times to define the programmes as either internal or external .
5 She knew that writing his name was never going to get him back , even if they wrote it hundreds of times in the most beautiful book in the world .
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