Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , we have to assign to each level a peculiar time , relatively autonomous and hence relatively independent , even in its dependence , of the ‘ times ’ of the other levels … |
| 2 | I have asked myself this question a thousand times , a hundred thousand times . |
| 3 | The princess told them : ‘ I have come to terms with this relationship a long time ago . |
| 4 | He had heard this request a thousand times . |
| 5 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
| 6 | By closing this door a million times to your fears , you will gain the strength to create newness in your life . |
| 7 | ‘ I have lived in this world a long time , child . |
| 8 | Zen had watched this cycle a dozen times or more when he felt a touch on his shoulder and turned to find Gilberto grinning up at him . |
| 9 | We 've been out on this balcony a long time , and no one has come to interrupt us . |
| 10 | I had come this way a hundred times , always varying my route so as to avoid making more of a track than a rabbit might do . |
| 11 | ‘ I knew someone of that name a long time ago . |
| 12 | Just as well they have something else in common : they have known each other a long time , and are all good friends . |
| 13 | We 'd known each other a long time . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've known each other a long time . |
| 15 | We 've known each other a long time . |
| 16 | We 're growing familiar , like we 've known each other a long time . |
| 17 | You and I have known each other a long time . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you think I have n't been over every inch of that argument a million times ? |
| 19 | This then inevitably means that by the early spring it is worth working the same ground a second time . |
| 20 | It is not advisable to indulge in elegant variation ; repetition of the same word a dozen times to convey the same meaning in the same paragraph is better than risking ambiguity . |
| 21 | That 's it ; except Nina stopped looking for any knight a long time ago . ’ |
| 22 | It should be remembered , of course , that quite often a man who deserted would rejoin the same army a short time later in a different unit , perhaps under another name , to gain a new enlistment bounty . |
| 23 | , Abraham ( c. 1793–1860 ) , bricklayer and the last man subjected to an ‘ appeal of murder ’ , by which a person acquitted of murder could be tried for the same offence a second time , was born c .1793 , the son of a Castle Bromwich builder . |
| 24 | But if he borrows the same amount a second time he becomes liable to a second charge . |
| 25 | I can also , if I erm come across the same problem a few times I could hopefully work on that and then probably eradicate altogether . |
| 26 | It had been , Flaubert told her son after her funeral in 1876 , as if he had been forced to bury his own mother a second time . |
| 27 | No , but if she is , she 's , she 's been going that way a long time . |