Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were away a long time , ’ said Pip . |
| 2 | But the Inter City Firm from West Ham were around a long time before the Service Crew . |
| 3 | Some of them are rather like cave paintings are n't they and have they 've got this from my a sort of tedious association of the drawings and pictures and er Catherine 's it seems to be suggesting that animals were around , animals and other creatures were around a long time before human beings and that human beings are in some ways intruders therefore in their in their world . |
| 4 | Oh I thought he was dead a long time ago . |
| 5 | But she was aware that she had been preoccupied a lot of the time , all too aware of the mountain of work before her , and that it was rather a long time since she and her daughter had had any special outings together . |
| 6 | I was only a short time standing there , but long enough to take in the vessel 's lines , the quite dainty sheer , her size and the layout of the masts and rigging . |
| 7 | And yet it was only a short time since he had been kissing her . |
| 8 | She was away a long time . |
| 9 | It was not a nice time . |
| 10 | He told me that this was not a good time of the year to see Riga . |
| 11 | It was not a good time for him in many ways . |
| 12 | Today , though , was not a suitable time to raise the subject of it all coming to an end . |
| 13 | End of term was always a tense time , when the inspectors from the African Education Department came out from Salisbury to assess the students ' teaching ability . |
| 14 | ‘ The group did lots of creative activities and as well as fun and happiness at the meetings , there was always a quiet time for the word of God to be shared in the group . |
| 15 | One newly-qualified accountant , who is considering a trip to the Far East for a few months , said winter was traditionally a busy time for accountants because companies are preparing for their financial year-ends but the last few months had been very quiet . |
| 16 | The accession of a child-king was also a dangerous time , especially if he , or indeed a mature monarch , was dominated by one group at the expense of others . |
| 17 | It was also a popular time for processions of witness or walking days , when the members of churches and Sunday schools of all denominations would walk together through the streets , stopping at selected places along the route to sing hymns to bear witness to their Christian faith . |
| 18 | It was also a bad time personally . |
| 19 | It was really a bad time . ’ |
| 20 | Oh no no , it was really a happy-go-lucky time you , you had to be alive in those days to appreciate it , it , people sort of got together and it , it 's a different attitude to life today er much more friendly people there and they , we all worked together we all pulled together to defeat Hitler this , this was the thing in those days . |
| 21 | Without wishing to understate what was surely a trying time for some students , I shall make two further points . |
| 22 | The early '70s ( mine is a ‘ 71 — serial number 290586 ) was n't a great time for American guitars of any ilk as far as I remember . |
| 23 | No , it wa was n't a good time . |
| 24 | It was n't a safe time to communicate as the guards often popped in to see that we were still exercising . |
| 25 | And then I went to Hereford for six months and I did er six months of medicine , and that was a long way from home in Essex and er we all sort of er mucked in and er made our own entertainment and cooked for each other and that erm was quite a good time . |
| 26 | When I first began designing for double jacquard , which was quite a long time ago , there was little or no information available and not many knitters used the technique , so over the years I learnt the hard way by trial and error . |
| 27 | That was , thing is that was quite a long time ago . |
| 28 | It was quite a long time . |
| 29 | It was indeed a difficult time . |
| 30 | And er would you usually Was there a special time of anything that he would be told . |