Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each month lots were drawn for the names of the next families to leave , and the fortunate ones were given only a short time to make their final preparations . |
| 2 | " He should have done so a long time ago . |
| 3 | Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out . |
| 4 | Hayling 's dummy had been a marathon performance over months , whilst Sutton had had only a short time and few people . |
| 5 | ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed . |
| 7 | For companies like , pitching to investors has become virtually a full time job . |
| 8 | Lewes had spent only a short time with the unit , but had impressed everyone with his absolute dedication to his work . |
| 9 | Once a week set aside a little time to give your body a conditioning and moisturising treatment . |
| 10 | Each was dramatic and each was followed only a short time later by a key Congressional vote . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 12 | Sorry to have taken rather a long time to reply but Andrew was in transit back to and around Italy . |
| 13 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 14 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 15 | This is where some fault or other has manifested itself sufficiently to affect the flight , though the critical event might have happened quite a long time before and been ‘ cooking up ’ until the divergence took place . |
| 16 | The death grant has been finished quite a long time ago , but there was the death grant erm because I can remember you know this , people telling me about this . |
| 17 | He was certified dead a short time later . |
| 18 | The sixty-two year old man 's body was discovered just a short time after he went missing from his ward . |
| 19 | ‘ We have to give those who have lived here a long time the right to become German citizens , ’ Johannes Gerster , deputy leader of the CDU parliamentary group , said at the weekend . |