Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some students find it best to set aside a regular time each week ( perhaps at the weekend ) to file all the notes taken during the previous week . |
| 2 | Literally speaking , ephemera are things that last only a day ; in the more accepted sense , things destined to endure only a short time ; but , by a curious paradox , in the most modern sense , things which have , in fact , long survived their predestined span . |
| 3 | And er then it seems to keep quite a long time if er if you do that . |
| 4 | I was beginning to have quite a good time , and might have imagined for myself a series of tragic scenes of truly poetic power and solemn grandeur , and was wondering how my dear and attractive wife would look in widow 's weeds , when this character started speaking on the radio , and totally ruined my train of thought . |
| 5 | We used to have quite a good time . |
| 6 | They 'd planned to stay there a long time and they left fingerprints all over the place |
| 7 | It 's just going to take rather a long time making them admit it . ’ |
| 8 | Those of us who have had reason to spend even a short time in a hospital will appreciate how much they look forward to the day that they can return home , even though their period spent in the hospital may have been made as pleasant as possible by exemplary care . |