Example sentences of "was a [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THERE was a testing time in store for members of THORP 's Chemical Separation Process team who found themselves in hot water recently . |
| 2 | It was a perfect time for the launch of Black Dwarf , but there too there were problems . |
| 3 | Saturday morning , 20 December was a worrying time for Jane Holt . |
| 4 | Needless to say , it was a worrying time for the Roubanova family . |
| 5 | It was a traumatic time for me . |
| 6 | It was a traumatic time for all concerned . |
| 7 | The last quarter of the nineteenth century was a tremendous time in British deaf history , not just because of the events that took place and the deeds that were done , but also because of the men of remarkable ability and calibre who were to be giants amongst deaf , and hearing , people . |
| 8 | It was a terrible time for the Orcs , who suffered defeat after defeat and never found a leader of their own to equal Sigmar . |
| 9 | August 1985 was a strange time for The Smiths . |
| 10 | THE Vietnam war was a glorious time for the world 's press ( see page 118 ) , and in its collective memory Indochina remains permeated with glamour , blood and drugs . |
| 11 | It was a changing time in my life . " |
| 12 | It was a sad time for English cricket ; sadder still was the tact that , apart from one series , things would simply continue to get ever worse . |
| 13 | This was a sad time for me . |
| 14 | And Peter Brook 's powerful adaptation of William Golding 's Lord of the Flies was a long time on the shelf before securing a release in 1963 . |
| 15 | In the era of austerity , consolidating the welfare state had required strong political backing , something that was a long time in coming until depression and war eventually mobilised these forces . |
| 16 | The Hudson Report , a very thorough and painstaking piece of work , was a long time in gestation ; it was sent to the Minister towards the end of 1973 and was eventually published in July 1974 . |
| 17 | She was a long time in answering . |
| 18 | It was a long time after their invention that yarn spinners adapted them for their own purposes . |
| 19 | It was a long time after that before I regained my confidence . |
| 20 | It was discovered not on earth in fact but on the sun in the first place , in about eighteen sixty-eight erm absorption lines were seen , and , and it was a long time after that before people realised there was some helium on the earth and , and , and eventually erm helium , some gas was found bubbling up through , from a pit in the Black Forest and , and analysed and found to be helium . |
| 21 | While this was a good thing , such improvements were at first only superficial , and it was a long time before everyday living conditions in deaf boarding institutions and day classes were of acceptable standard . |
| 22 | Although the RAF had standard instrument panels from 1936 onwards it was a long time before the merits of this tidy arrangement really caught on in the USA . |
| 23 | And even then it was a long time before the implications of the theory for massive stars were understood . |
| 24 | It was a good time for building up the faculty . |
| 25 | She had spent two years solidly on the programme and felt now was a good time for a change . |
| 26 | It was a good time to be happy . ’ |
| 27 | The Fifties was a great time for moral stands , at least on this subject , accompanied by high-level debate and quixotic , brave , sometimes eccentric gestures of persuasion . |
| 28 | ‘ It was a great time for paperbacks . |
| 29 | It was a turbulent time for college principals , and many were unable to cope with the urgent demands for change which constantly assailed them — not least from their own undergraduates . |
| 30 | IT WAS a turbulent time in the art world , and for Kasmin personally . |