Example sentences of "very [adj] time [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can remember and I think the rest of us from the Three-Ninetieth can remember when there were very little time when we had it this quiet . |
| 2 | When she had been little , once Fenna had taught her how to fly so that she no longer went wandering off , there had been very little time when she had been left alone . |
| 3 | A very long time later I woke from a deep sleep . |
| 4 | Eighty years does n't seem a very long time when you consider the art of acting has been prospering in Europe over the last four hundred or so years , quite apart from the great traditions of ancient Greek drama . |
| 5 | Most of the company wives do n't see their husbands for about sixty five per cent of the year , which is actually a very long time when you 're living in these sort of conditions . |
| 6 | The nuns , Nenna 's nuns , what a very long time ago it seemed , in a class known as plain sewing , had taught her bygone arts , darning , patching , reinforcing collars with tape , which at last found their proper object in Willis 's outmoded garments . |
| 7 | HIV is a very weak virus and can only survive for a very short time when it is exposed to air outside the human body . |
| 8 | But this was a great feeling of what we had been used to over the years in watching American movies and , with our tongue in cheek and a bit of a giggle , seeing the adventures of the cavalry arriving , And for the first time in our years of combat I had a glow , a rosy glow , inside me and I knew and was certain for the very first time now we could not be beaten . |