Example sentences of "[is] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , yes , it sounds it sounds as it 's for a limited time anyway , so , you know |
| 2 | I ask a simple question to which I know that there is a simple answer , but I still think that it is worth a little time to discover it : why are the Government in such a desperate hurry to get the Bill back to the House on 26 February ? |
| 3 | The guy who 's been in the business or been in the same patch or whatever it is for a long time , |
| 4 | The license and the right to use this Program is for an indefinite time until terminated . |
| 5 | Oliver Goldsmith , in his Natural History , described the effects of sleep loss thus : But man is more feeble ; he requires its due return ; and if it fails to pay the accustomed visit , his whole frame is in a short time thrown into disorder ; his appetite ceases ; his spirits are dejected ; his pulse becomes quicker and harder ; and his mind , abridged of its slumbering visions , begins to adopt waking dreams . |
| 6 | Steven is in an alternative time zone now . |
| 7 | No cos I 've seen this done before right , I mean it 's over a certain time , but if you go in at the end of the time |
| 8 | We need periodically to consider whether existing methods are the best that can be devised for dealing with crime in the context of society as it is at a given time . |
| 9 | The Box Office at the Oxford Union will be open from 3rd June Monday to Saturday between 10a.m. and 1.0p.m. ( 8.30 on days when the last performance is at a later time ) . |
| 10 | South Central LA is one of America 's civil war zones , a suburban ghetto torn apart by drugs , where the murder rate is at an all time high and almost all the victims are black . |
| 11 | Morale in the service is at an all time low . |
| 12 | We both agree that he should be able to offer favourable terms for the hire of the slope for the proposed event , provided it is at an off-peak time . |