Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only reason for not beginning your diary straight away is if the next seven to ten days covers a really unusual time , for example your annual holiday , or a bout of sickness , or Christmas and New Year . |
| 2 | With one or two notable exceptions , among them Tchaikovsky 's First String Quartet and Piano Trio , and Borodin 's two quarters , 19th century Russian chamber music has a pretty thin time of it . |
| 3 | It is quite clear that in any examination the examiner has a very short time to spend on any individual question . |
| 4 | One youngster told him : ‘ Everyone has a really good time . |
| 5 | For us , all that symbolism represents a really bad time in our career , and part of the reason for us packing it all in . |
| 6 | But it 's expensive , useless as an insulator when wet and takes a very long time to dry . |
| 7 | If this is the case , the changes of the past 30 years may be the first signs of a return to the more traditional population distribution of pre-industrial Britain , but it must also be borne in mind that it takes a very long time to shift major population patterns , and that the present trends may only be a veneer on an underlying and more permanent structure . |
| 8 | In terms of a human life-span , the development of a hill-slope takes a very long time , and one could not stay around long enough to test alternative theories of hill-slope development if observation of processes acting on the present landscape produced the only relevant data . |
| 9 | Er , what companies can do , or should seek to do , is of course , see if they can manage round those tensions as well , but it takes a very long time to do that . |
| 10 | Hon. Members on both sides have argued that the processing of applications takes an awfully long time . |
| 11 | It runs out of steam at 60 , which takes an awful long time to achieve and the first hint of a hill its down the box to third . |
| 12 | Before you can make changes to the system , you have to understand it , and that takes an awful long time . |
| 13 | So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway . |
| 14 | It takes an awful long time for you to regain that and to feel safe in your own homes . |
| 15 | Now seems a fairly appropriate time to make Definition 1.2.7 Let a ε Z. We define unc by |
| 16 | Beat it for ten minutes , that 's it seems an awfully long time to just stand there and . |
| 17 | Seems an awful long time ago in some ways , you know , camping . |
| 18 | We had questions at the very beginning of this meeting which seems an awful long time ago now er asking for youth provision in other areas of the county . |
| 19 | The addiction is to the ‘ rush ’ — an experience of great pleasure which lasts a relatively short time . |
| 20 | For , I think we 'd probably better keep you going for , how about six da hmm for five days , that 's actually quite a long course for this stuff cos it lasts an awful long time in the body . |