Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the modern age , institutions outside the family have been created to administer public affairs and women were for a long time expressly excluded . |
| 2 | There are complicating factors , of course In the depression of the thirties suicide rates for those out of work were at an all time high , but the suicide rate among the retired also increased It might be argued from this that economic uncertainty rather than unemployment per se is the cause . |
| 3 | At the time of writing , Prudential 's shares were at an all time high , which might serve to back up Mr Lawrence 's point . |
| 4 | This hypothesis was for a long time a subject of much contention in anthropology and is not even now entirely laid to rest , but the meagre historical record we possess can not possibly support such an assertion . |
| 5 | Nell stayed as she was for a long time , then had an inspiration . |
| 6 | The other recalls what was for a long time Britain 's worst air disaster . |
| 7 | The mainstream of early French political socialism was for a long time essentially petit bourgeois , in its absence of rapprochement with trade unions , in its party organizational form , and in the social background of its parliamentarians and membership . |
| 8 | In university circles there was for a long time little sympathy for the innovators , and in his younger days Nietzsche 's own tastes inclined the same way . |
| 9 | It was for a long time a small and cheap organisation . |
| 10 | The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) . |
| 11 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
| 12 | I was for a short time privileged to share in the joy and vitality and the oneness with Almighty God in his Luo people ( Anne Marie will gladly give a talk and show slides to any interested groups in the North West . |
| 13 | This was for a short time only ; I had suffered a significant loss , but not a life-threatening or total one . |
| 14 | Pain entered my left arm and was for a short time , half a minute or so , quite hurtful . |
| 15 | She was on a long time . |
| 16 | ‘ I told you , that was over a long time ago . ’ |
| 17 | Dr Robat Williams , who has devised the charters for both authorities , said the launch was at a difficult time because of the General Election campaign . |