Example sentences of "[was/were] a [adj] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well thank you Peter , yes I 've got the man of the moment with me — Andy Melville , absolutely delighted erm oh , it was a frustrating old time was n't it , what an important goal . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're sweet , ’ said Lucy , stroking her face , holding her hand , ‘ but it was a long long time ago . |
| 3 | Was a long long time ago . |
| 4 | Oh that was a good long time ago was n't it ? |
| 5 | However , the discovery that the speed of light appeared the same to every observer , no matter how he was moving , led to the theory of relativity — and in that one had to abandon the idea that there was a unique absolute time . |