Example sentences of "a [adj] time [coord] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone had prevented Elinor from being an oil executive , or a leading novelist and short-story writer , it was Elinor 's mother , a small , heavily built woman with a squint , who lived very near the Sellafield atomic reactor. principally because Elinor 's mother was completely without talent for anything apart from giving men a hard time and had , presumably , passed on her genes to her daughter . |
| 2 | Metal whiskers of this kind had been known of , in a general sort of way , for a long time but had been regarded as a nuisance or a curiosity . |
| 3 | He was glad of the moon , for he had been walking away from the road and the quarry for a long time and had reached the rising , stony ground at the foot of the foin . |
| 4 | Thirteen years , between the 1971 Census and the 1984 image used , is a long time and has encompassed considerable population change in both magnitude and distribution . |
| 5 | Denis Smith says … he 's known John for a long time and has just the experience and talent that Oxford need |
| 6 | ‘ We 've acted for the club for a long time and have always had a good relationship with them . |
| 7 | Where the parties have not only required a step to be taken within a specified time but have expressly provided for the consequences in case of default , this provides an indication , of greater or less strength , that time is to be of the essence , but it is not necessarily decisive . |