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 | Now seems a fairly appropriate time to make Definition 1.2.7 Let a ε Z. We define unc by |
| 11 | The addiction is to the ‘ rush ’ — an experience of great pleasure which lasts a relatively short time . |