Example sentences of "[adv prt] a [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meeting broke up a short time after , a bewildered Hoskyns leaving more convinced than ever that change would have to be wholesale . |
| 2 | And secondly , we 'll be able to sort out a reasonable time for getting her home . |
| 3 | But we do talk and what I know is you are essentially a decent and totally wonderful human being and I 'll hang around a long time for you . |
| 4 | But the Inter City Firm from West Ham were around a long time before the Service Crew . |
| 5 | Some of them are rather like cave paintings are n't they and have they 've got this from my a sort of tedious association of the drawings and pictures and er Catherine 's it seems to be suggesting that animals were around , animals and other creatures were around a long time before human beings and that human beings are in some ways intruders therefore in their in their world . |