Example sentences of "be a [adj] time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos you know they 're a million times ahead . |
| 2 | It was for a party in one of the upstairs rooms , but it had been a long time ago . |
| 3 | That had been a long time ago . |
| 4 | But that had been a long time ago . |
| 5 | It had been a long time ago and the jungle had reclaimed its own . |
| 6 | It must have been a long time ago . |
| 7 | There had been a long time when he had been surrounded by wire and bars . |
| 8 | He felt that he had been a long time away . |
| 9 | Well it 's been a long time now . ’ |
| 10 | Would that 've been a full time then or would she have done other |
| 11 | The fact is that they are a million times better than many of the new trainers on the market and a lot harder to find . |
| 12 | The local density in our galaxy could be a million times higher than this figure if primordial black holes were concentrated in the ‘ halo ’ of galaxies — the thin cloud of rapidly moving stars in which each galaxy is embedded — rather than being uniformly distributed throughout the universe . |
| 13 | May God 's punishment be a thousand times worse on you than the harm that you have done to Hector . ’ |
| 14 | She tried to shut it all out of her mind , and remember that she should consider herself lucky , for Avenue Foch would be a thousand times worse . |
| 15 | Any of them would be a thousand times better than Drummle ! ’ |
| 16 | She added : ‘ You have to make a big commitment to complete distance learning courses , and two years can be a long time when you are faced with constant learning . |
| 17 | ‘ He will never be sold while I am chairman — which will be a long time yet — or while Barry Fry is manager , ’ he added . |
| 18 | Must be a long time ago love is n't it since we had best butter . |
| 19 | And I think it would be a good time now to , to point out to the to s to er to say that we 'd like to have our views heard at that time . |
| 20 | ‘ I cried because I knew when I walked out on Ramsay Street , it would be a hundred times more difficult to see my friends , ’ she confessed . |
| 21 | Would n't it be a zillion times better to destroy it ? |
| 22 | Anyway , these curtains were a thousand times better than the ones off the skips ; lovely , real linen or silk or thick velvet , lined and interlined , fringed and tasselled . |
| 23 | Swindon 's glory days in the FA Cup were a long time ago while Cambridge have been to the quarter finals two years running . |
| 24 | So when we say we want the laws of physics perhaps to stay constant in time , when we observe these objects a long way away we 're observing the laws of physics as they were a long time ago . |
| 25 | well that were a long time ago , they 've got some from down here , Edinburgh Road , you got one from Edinburgh Road |
| 26 | Yeah , but you do it , it were a good time though . |
| 27 | Oh are you well I 'll give you a a , I lost it at lunchtime ex-Radio Virgin certificate for being a first time on and er I 'd like to say it 's been a pleasure . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's a thousand times better than you are ! ’ |
| 29 | No matter how badly designed it is , it 's a thousand times better than what was here before . |
| 30 | That 's a long time ahead two weekends to go You ought to see how badly that ca n't you when you ha ha three bits on there suppose you could do that now could n't you ? |