Example sentences of "for [adv] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
2 | Frankly , I 'd respond more if a chap came up to me and said , ‘ Look here , we 've been doing this for rather a long time now and we find that this way seems to bring the best results . ’ ’ |
3 | Each such coherent structure is identifiable for only a limited time . |
4 | Sadly , Mr Cod was destined to be with them for only a short time . |
5 | I might have saved myself the trouble , as the family remained together for only a short time afterwards ; my sisters married , leaving only my mother and myself at home … |
6 | Lonsdale 's history of women poets through the century allows them to be understood against developments in the poetry written by men whose dominance of fashion was challenged for only a short time toward the end of the period . |
7 | The problems result from long-term exposure , so families who change homes every few years may not suffer because they are exposed to levels above the action level for only a short time . |
8 | Why does the snow settle for only a short time on the north west coast ? |
9 | When their mother died in 1778 she was sent away to Halifax , to stay with her mother 's cousin , Miss Elizabeth Threlkeld , for nine years ; she then lived at Penrith with her grand-parents , seeing William for only a short time , and from 1789 to 1794 was away from the Lake District again , in the care of her uncle and aunt at Forncett in Norfolk . |
10 | Of course , we were here for only a short time and what time we had we spent with Debbie . |
11 | A spokesman for a major insurance company commented , ‘ If they were there for only a short time , we could arrange cover , probably without charge . ’ |
12 | But these devices allow it to remain out of water for only a short time . |
13 | Full employment , competition between employers for labour and high levels of labour turnover might mean that many people are working for only a short time in any particular job . |
14 | Sachs therefore concluded that the syntax of sentences is held for only a short time , after which only their meaning is retained . |
15 | At high stepping rates each phase is excited for only a short time interval and the build.up time of the phase current is a significant proportion of the excitation interval . |
16 | I slept for only a short time each night , and I did not eat much food . |
17 | This adds a bit of fun to the proceedings , but the same questions crop up repetitively , so its quite easy to cheat by remembering the answers after playing for only a short time . |
18 | ‘ For only a short time . |
19 | I have been in the House for only a short time , but since I have been here I have been involved in a number of private Bills . |
20 | This has been attempted with some success using the gene for human factor IX , though synthesis continues for only a short time , and immune response in the mouse receipients proved a problem . |
21 | In both cases the behaviour is not completely predictable , but observation for only a short time makes it so for all subsequent times . ) |
22 | The images lingered for only a brief time before changing , the Retreat demolished in the storm of stones and a new structure raised in the whirl : the Tower of the Tabula Rasa . |
23 | For just a short time I had become a part of the village community on a day that ‘ introduces everybody to everybody else ’ . |
24 | If we assume that the number of professional programmers , these are people who are competent to use and develop software , is roughly proportional to the number of commercial computers in operation , this means that if the trend continues , in ten years time , there will be a need for roughly a hundred times as many computer programmers than we 've got as present . |
25 | Being directly overhead , the field is one of the worst positions from which to extricate yourself because you have to fly blind , away from the field , for quite a long time to get out to the side for a reasonable base leg . |
26 | For my hands were not together — They were holding another hand — I felt the weight and the warmth of it for quite a long time … |
27 | I started by looking up quotes for characters to say , and found myself reading four or five pages , until I found myself reading the Bible and only the Bible for quite a long time . |
28 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
29 | It survived for quite a long time , until the accumulating ash had built up to such a thickness that its chain would no longer allow it to keep above the ash , and it died , its dreadful last moments clearly visible in its taut body , arched back and straining neck . |
30 | Henry sat for quite a long time thinking about the conversation between Elinor and her mother as they hurtled down the Paso della Lagastrella , brakeless . |