Example sentences of "[been] a [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I know I 've been a long time on this but I 'll I think it 's nearly there . |
2 | Well that 's no surprise ; but it 's been a long time in coming . |
3 | It 's been a long time in the pipeline … |
4 | " I believe the house is — pretty historic — been a long time in Preston 's family , " David Fairfax went on . |
5 | There has never been a better time for supporting the white rose |
6 | As the slogan on the front of the club 's glossy new brochure proclaims : ‘ There 's never been a better time to be involved with Yorkshire Cricket . ’ |
7 | There has never been a better time to be a member of the Association . |
8 | It 's been a gloomy time in gloucestershire for industry in general , with more than a thousand jobs dissapearing from the Dowty group , the counties largest engineering employers , over the past twelve months . |
9 | It has been a traumatic time for everyone at Burston during the past year or so and a great deal has been achieved over a very short time . |
10 | The past year has been a vexing time for most research councils finding themselves in the situation of having to reduce their volume of activity within a failing budget . |
11 | It has been a strange time for customs officers thought Western Europe and North America . |
12 | It must have been a worrying time for Titfords and Hasteds alike , not to mention the rest of the inhabitants of the densely-populated riverside parishes ; the victims of the killer — or rather the remains — were laid to rest in a corner of St George 's churchyard , while the murderer himself , who eventually committed suicide , was buried with a stake through him at the top of Cannon Street where the newly-built Commercial Road crossed . |
13 | It must have been a testing time for the boffins at the Telecommunications Research Establishment ( TRE ) at Malvern to find an operational RAF pilot in their midst , competing with them and reducing by months the time-scale normally associated with getting things done . |
14 | The last two or three years have been a testing time for the 180 people who work at Angered . |
15 | ‘ It would 've been a bad time for t'road between t'two farms ti be blocked wi' snow . ’ |
16 | The late 1920s and '30s seems to have been a bad time in the Woodchester area for fires . |
17 | Many secondees had been a considerable time in their pre-secondment posts and were looking for variety . |
18 | This has been a painful time for you . ’ |
19 | The Trevino era has been a special time of my life and he 's made me feel special . |
20 | It had been a difficult time for everyone , but especially Diana , who was perhaps closest to her father of all the children . |
21 | It 's been a difficult time for the sales and marketing team at Thame in Oxfordshire . |
22 | ‘ We have lost four games recently that we never deserved to lose so it 's been a hard time for us . |
23 | She said the Edinburgh summit had been a tense time for the family when it seemed all Mr Garel-Jones ' work on Maastricht could have come to nothing . |
24 | It has been a busy time in London , with new contracts across the city . |