Example sentences of "have [art] [adj] time of " in BNC.
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1 | A young Paul Gascoigne has a torrid time of it at the hands of the opposition in a league football match back in 1989 . |
2 | The latter film has a playing time of twenty minutes . |
3 | Job B has an estimated time of 3 units , so the early finish of B is 4 + 3 = 7 . |
4 | Job B has an estimated time of 3 units , so the early finish of B is 4 + 3 = 7 . |
5 | He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front . |
6 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
7 | But they have not had an easy time of it , as much of the garden was originally covered by a concrete driveway , and the soil , though fertile had a layer of ironstone at about the depth you need to plan shrubs . |
8 | The 32-year-old French film director has just flown into London from LA , and has not had an easy time of it . |
9 | Take That have n't had an easy time of it breaking into the big time . |
10 | If your attitude to me is anything to go by , Petula must have a thin time of it . ’ |
11 | Jaye was brought up in Hertfordshire and did n't have a happy time of it . |
12 | It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan . |
13 | The engine was recorded as having a total time of 302.30 hours at the time of the accident . |
14 | If we four were representatives of our platoon , it was understandable that the staff were having a tough time of it , pretending that we were all the same — physically , socially and morally . |
15 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
16 | The poor old dear has been having a hard time of late . |
17 | The Greek revolt was seen by European liberals who in a sense might be having a hard time of it in in , in those years . |
18 | Reed Canoes & Camping of Cambridge have been amongst the retailers having a difficult time of late . |
19 | British deaf men and women were spared much of this horror , and went on with their lives , but they were having a grim time of it too . |
20 | Got to be a cobbler round who is having a lean time of it . ’ |
21 | Invergordon did not have an easy time of it in 1992 , a fact reflected both by turnover , down 8 per cent at £85 million , and operating profits , down 3.8 per cent at £35.3 million . |
22 | Davies , Strudwick and Johnson persuaded Nicholas to hand in her resignation because they could see that she was having an impossible time of it . |
23 | That will leave management free to concentrate on the existing businesses which are not having an easy time of it . |
24 | But he is likely to have a frustrating time of it as Industry Secretary until the economy recovers , wanting cash to fund his ambitious regeneration plans that will simply not be available in the next year or two . |
25 | He used to teach English in a comprehensive school and he probably had a rough time of it . |
26 | Before the 1967 Act the labs had a hard time of it , I can tell you , when all scientific evidence had to be given orally . |
27 | Even when you were small and Lizzie had a bad time of it , I saw to you . |
28 | She took me to meet the Fellowship she helps to lead and we had a lovely time of worship together . |
29 | The other and main hospital providing radiology had a waiting time of up to nine weeks with no prospect of the additional staff needed to reduce this . |
30 | have a rough time of it at the moment … ’ |