Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] time [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 This 24 hours is only two-thirds of the 36 hours available ; it should be considered a minimum time to allocate to private study .
2 And she 's got a long time to use this money , and okay this might be sufficient now , but will it be when she 's seventy , seventy five , so we 've got to make that money work so
3 Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top
4 They 've had a long time to crack a lot of these problems pardon
5 After all , they have had a long time to become used to them .
6 for referral to the Parliamentary Commissioner or a Local Councillor for referral to the Local Commissioner , although it must be remembered that the Local Commissioner can only investigate after a complaint has been brought to the attention of the authority complained against and they have had a reasonable time to reply .
7 In February 1989 the proposed new terms and conditions were outlined by letter to staff and , after subsequent fruitless negotiations with the unions , in April 1989 a notice was sent informing the employees that the changes would be discussed with them , that they would be given a reasonable time to consider the new contracts and that they would be dismissed if they did not accept them .
8 If the occupier then asks them to leave , they must be allowed a reasonable time to leave , after which they will become trespassers .
9 He continued : [ T ] he ultimate question for the court was this : if the section 146 notice had required the lessee to remedy the breach and the lessors had then allowed a reasonable time to elapse to enable the lessee fully to comply with the relevant covenant , would such compliance , coupled with the payment of any appropriate monetary compensation , have effectively remedied the harm which the lessors had suffered or were likely to suffer from the breach ?
10 The pyramid has taken a long time to crumble .
11 Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic .
12 Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class .
13 According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up .
14 Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time .
15 The links between sport , the media ‘ and big business ‘ which are now so important , have taken a long time to forge .
16 ‘ She 's taken a long time to throw off the illness and is still not fully fit , ’ said Sheppard 's Milngavie and Bearsden coach , Alex McNeil .
17 It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control .
18 Such a measure has taken a long time to appear .
19 The transactions , some of which have taken a long time to unravel , include guarantees on property leases and interest rate swaps .
20 The transactions , some of which have taken a long time to unravel , include guarantees on property leases and interest rate swaps .
21 It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives .
22 ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’
23 It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives .
24 Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over .
25 It was a day that twenty one soldiers had waited a long time to see .
26 I have waited a long time to catch The Economist out on an egregious factual error .
27 ‘ We have waited a long time to have car tax taken off , but VAT is still 17.5 per cent , ’ he says .
28 After all , she had waited a long time to belong , but she had never realised she could belong so completely .
29 ‘ You have waited a long time to tell me .
30 But despite this , Mr Pacey denies he 's chosen a bad time to go .
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