Example sentences of "a [adj] time [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though it offers compensation to people who have already bought shops or flats , Albania 's court system , now being rebuilt from scratch after almost 30 years without a justice ministry , will have a hard time sorting out property disputes . |
| 2 | But the Chancellor may have a hard time explaining why the pound has to shadow the Deutschmark . |
| 3 | I dare say those two small kids had a great time larking around with mummy and ‘ uncle ’ Johnny . |
| 4 | Nails went upstairs and after a long time came down with a pair of paint-spattered dungarees and two pairs of jeans belonging to his father who weighed about sixteen stone , two jerseys of Gary 's and a navy-blue suit of indeterminate ancestry . |
| 5 | The difficulty here is that this would take a long time to carry out , besides which , there is the problem of access . |
| 6 | However , he stressed that economic growth was still heavily dependent on continued flows of external assistance , since the programmes under way would take a long time to carry out . |
| 7 | It means so much to the supporters in the Oxford area , it means so much to the club , I think you 've really got to be up here for a long time to realise just how much it does mean to everybody in this area . |
| 8 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |
| 9 | We to put the decorations up in th in a s in a short time limit , the decorations take quite a long time to put up and as you know the decorations are erm are very famous er they 're nationally recognized . |
| 10 | When he came back in the evening he sat for a long time gazing out across the V-shaped valley leading south . |
| 11 | She walked one last time down the rickety boardwalk in front of the cabins , and stood for a long time looking down at the sleeping lodge , the moody lake beyond it . |
| 12 | The English host was able to cross unhindered , although it would take a long time to do so in its entirety . |
| 13 | Not returning calls , or taking a long time to do so . |
| 14 | ‘ This will take a long time to sink in , ’ said Breeze . |
| 15 | It was largely by the force of his own personality that Castro took the Cuban people with him along the road of Marxism-Leninism ( although he was also tactically astute — for a long time implementing only the minimum conditions of Marxism , allowing rhetoric to fill the vacuum , and emphasising the glorious and dramatic aspects of Marxism , notably the armed struggle and proletarian internationalism ) . |
| 16 | The box and pyrotechnics take a long time to set up , so we ca n't rehearse and have to hope it will be all right on the night . |
| 17 | According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up . |
| 18 | ‘ When the mortars wake me at night , it takes a long time to go back to sleep . |
| 19 | Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again . |
| 20 | It was September , when the days take a long time to wake up and the green of the trees is brushed with gold . |
| 21 | And the City took a long time to wake up to Europe 's moves towards monetary union ; its bid to host a European central bank was made later than most others . |
| 22 | She sat there for a long time rocking backwards and forwards and giving herself up to howling , letting her gasps for breath shake her to pieces and leave her shuddering . |
| 23 | Since ch'i occupies the place in Chinese cosmology corresponding to matter in ours , Westerners took a long time to grasp how very different it is from what we understand by matter . |
| 24 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 25 | A long time setting up , then it rained . |
| 26 | " The police are a long time getting here , " he said . |
| 27 | That 's something we , we , that 's what we found and one of the things we have got is this youth bus actually operating in the town and it erm , it 's running three nights a week , we ca n't cover every bit of the town , but it goes to different area 's of the town , The Stow , and Old Harlow , I mean we 've actually got quite good relationship 's with , with , with the young people in Old Harlow , but erm , I mean we ca n't cover every night , I mean there is a problem , of erm , you know , you you get from a position where you recognise it , you , you , you need to start catering for a particular group and it takes a long time getting there . |
| 28 | It takes such a long time to use up a tin , you probably would n't realise . |
| 29 | Now 43 , she is married with a two-year-old daughter and says it took a long time to settle down to a ‘ normal life ’ . |
| 30 | It took quite a long time to climb up to his preferred perch on the monster , even using the bits of wood and string he 'd painstakingly tied to it … him . |