Example sentences of "was a [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pretended to himself that Repton was a gloriously happy time . |
| 2 | It was a desperately lonely time . |
| 3 | There was a widely variable time from transplantation to the appearance of HBV markers in liver or serum , ranging from 6–331 days . |
| 4 | ‘ Everyone agreed this was a rather daft time to conduct the inspection , when staff can not be expected to be enthusiastic . |
| 5 | ‘ Everyone agreed this was a rather daft time to conduct the inspection , when staff can not be expected to be enthusiastic . |
| 6 | It was a peculiarly difficult time for the independents . |
| 7 | Afternoon was a relatively safe time , but a peak occurred in late evening ( 1900–2100 hours ) when patients go to the toilet or commode and get into bed . |
| 8 | Suddenly again it was a deeply unhappy time . |
| 9 | The eighteenth century was a fairly settled time for the small English house , and saw the birth of the professional architect and the introduction of pattern books . |
| 10 | Very early each morning , which we thought was a fairly safe time to listen , we sat glued to the radio . |
| 11 | In fact , this was a totally disastrous time for her to come face to face with him . |
| 12 | I was bleeding but I just tried to hide it because it was a terribly busy time . ’ |
| 13 | It was a really hard time . |
| 14 | Easter was a really full time . |
| 15 | ‘ The Chariot will be here at dawn , good Calatin , ’ said Fael-Inis , and Calatin at once said that this was a very good time for a journey . |
| 16 | He then had a number of convulsions , and it was a very worrying time for us all . |
| 17 | This was a very trying time for me , and the people who ought to be offering support were offering only insults . |
| 18 | ‘ It was a very sad time , ’ he says . |
| 19 | Gillian 's Uncle George was a very long time coming . |
| 20 | The people in his past had been real once but , although that was a very long time ago , he had never been able to forget them or what they had done to his life . |
| 21 | And then , with an abrupt gesture , ‘ But it was a very long time ago , and I do not know the details , for I was never told . |
| 22 | The Opposition replied , ’ That was 10 years ago ’ , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Teignbridge ( Mr. Nicholls ) , whom I commend for this observation , said , that 10 years was a very long time for the Leader of the Opposition and 10 minutes was about the average length of every policy that he had put forward . |
| 23 | It was a very distressing time for him . |
| 24 | And then the the men cut the like that and then the women s they lifted the , and the next lad he stuck them so that it was a very busy time . |
| 25 | ‘ It was a very difficult time for us and I 'm fortunate that I have such an understanding wife . |
| 26 | We never sold anything of course but it gave me a sort of status plus it was a very interesting time to be around the art world . |
| 27 | It was a very different time . |
| 28 | This was a very tense time and to my complete amazement I took 2nd place in the amateur class . |
| 29 | It was a very exciting time and we ( my then husband , Adrian , and I ) followed my parents to Cornwall . |
| 30 | It was a very inconvenient time for murder . |