Example sentences of "[is] quite a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that if the post office changes hands , that 's quite a crucial time because the newcomers may have to put up front quite a large sum of money . |
| 2 | If you plant a crop , it 's quite a long time before it |
| 3 | ‘ It 's quite a long time since I made any . |
| 4 | That it 's quite a long time to achieve . |
| 5 | And probably even less than that , now I think of it , two hours that 's quite a long time is n't it Peter ? |
| 6 | It 's quite a long time since breakfast . ’ |
| 7 | No that 's quite a nice time to get up . |
| 8 | As the PAL:YPE recalls , this impression was based on a combination of physical environment , staff vision , and an existing commitment to an infrastructure including a permanent part-time library assistant : School A I was impressed with , because they too had already started to talk about resource-based learning and they already had as far as I remember … ( now my memory is fairly vague now because it is quite a long time ago ) … but as far as I remember they had a Headmaster , who was extremely interested , very keen indeed , and they had a committee already set up , I think to look into this . |
| 9 | The minutes of the last meeting , the twentieth , the nineteenth of October , which is quite a long time ago , did anyone have any particular comments ? |
| 10 | Which is quite a long time . |
| 11 | What we 've done , is we 've set up an answer phone to pick up these calls after 13 seconds , after 13 rings sorry , about 30 seconds , which is quite a long time . |