Example sentences of "for a [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , it is Crush drummer Ric Menck 's ( 30th ) birthday , and he 's out for a grinningly good time , whatever the weather . |
| 2 | Despite episcopal censures , the practice continued for a surprisingly long time ; measures were taken to stop Irish clergy so cohabiting as late as the sixth century . |
| 3 | It has become the drug of choice for the American armed forces and for the World Health Organization , and has survived against the threat of resistant strains for a surprisingly long time . |
| 4 | Basically , however , British cities ‘ got by ’ for a surprisingly long time . |
| 5 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 6 | Mr Deukmejian , who was elected governor in 1982 , has been trying for a mighty long time to get the death penalty enforced in California . |
| 7 | But he 'll have a sore head for a pretty long time , I should imagine . ’ |
| 8 | During the Assembly debate Michel Rocard , the Prime Minister , announced that French forces in the Gulf would that day be put under US military command " for a strictly defined time and missions " . |
| 9 | Some have been living for a disconcertingly long time in museums ; but once doubted , the evidence of inadequacy in a fake is quite often soon in coming . |
| 10 | But if you went over the hill , after school time , then you were in for a fairly rough time the other end , you were challenged and all sorts of things . |
| 11 | The plants were moved to chilling temperatures for a fairly short time , and any resulting decline in growth was probably less than the variation . |
| 12 | This effect persists for a relatively long time , and as there is a specific relationship between the stimuli and the responses , it is regarded as a genuine form of associative learning . |
| 13 | T n tracts of T 9 GCA 9 persist for a relatively long time adds further weight to the suggestion that these are caused by ligand-induced alterations in local DNA structure , rendering it more susceptible to attack by this nuclease . |
| 14 | Laboratory experiments can only last for a relatively short time , and have to be held within the confines of the laboratory . |
| 15 | The vogue of the Klan lasted for a relatively short time , but at its height , it may have had five million members . |
| 16 | Because the British planning system reinforces a natural tendency towards ‘ lumpy ’ growth , individual places tend to grow rapidly for a relatively short time and then consolidate more gradually , with the result that a place takes on a particular profile which then becomes relatively ‘ fossilized ’ . |
| 17 | It is one in which a repertory with a large a cappella element is cultivated on a daily basis by men and ( usually ) boys , all of them relatively young , who hold positions in a cathedral or chapel ( often for a relatively short time ) for which there is much competition . |
| 18 | However , for a cross-sectional study , a body of field workers , equipment , working accommodation , etc. , must be available for a relatively short time on a one-off basis . |
| 19 | Therefore , before a conclusion is reached , tests must be continued for a sufficiently long time to demonstrate an adequate shelf-life in the market concerned . |
| 20 | In other words , they have been allowed to grow and multiply for a sufficiently long time to produce large numbers of cells . |
| 21 | All you need to do is to be sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time and and his mates will turn around and throw up their hands and shak and and turn somersaults . |
| 22 | People who have intelligence and a conscience wrestle with these problems and we 've come to a conclusion which is as good a deal as we think we can get , with the people of the area and with the Labour party and I think he said that if people in this authority are sufficiently obstructive for a sufficiently long time then people will change their minds . |
| 23 | It would have to wait for a more opportune time , she decided , and replaced the receiver . |
| 24 | It seems that human attention can only be sustained for a very limited time by any subject , even the prospects of its own destruction . |
| 25 | The 'phone rang for a very long time and when Mrs Pettifer eventually answered she sounded quite put out . |
| 26 | ‘ As far as the grassroots are concerned we have got one , and I hope we have her for a very long time . ’ |
| 27 | It has been a shareholder for a very long time in some private companies and I think we 've become known to be a supportive shareholder . |
| 28 | For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution . |
| 29 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 30 | It is important to have been about for a very long time . |