Example sentences of "can [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can stay a long time in neutral , ticking over — provided nothing happens . |
| 2 | If you go to a fancy-dress party as a Turkish dancer , you can expect a good time ; if you travel on public transport late at night in such a get-up it will probably cause nothing but trouble . |
| 3 | Reserves Duncan Chapman and Paul Pickering can expect a difficult time against in-form Dane , Richard Juul , and Max Schofield , the former Bear who will be determined to prove a point to Middlesbrough for allowing him to move on . |
| 4 | Erm I do n't think we can spend a long time considering them , it 's just if people bear me whisking through them our brains . |
| 5 | The trouble has been , however , that with the longer construction periods for nuclear stations and the further period before their cheaper running costs will allegedly show up , it can take a long time to see which way the scales really tip . |
| 6 | An old person who is bedbound may get pressure sores or ulcers in a very short time and these can take a long time to heal ( see page 78 ) . |
| 7 | Reconciling yourself to making the final decision can take a long time and be very painful . |
| 8 | Be warned though : commercial music can take a long time to clear and can also be expensive . |
| 9 | It can take a long time for a woman to rid herself of the automatic assumptions that she has absorbed about home-making , and learn to fashion an approach which suits her and her family . |
| 10 | The solvents persist for many years , and can take a long time to be degraded or removed ; the good news is that , unlike some other forms of pollution , spillages of volatile organochlorines are apparently becoming rarer as awareness of the consequences of poor practice increases . |
| 11 | Cuffs and hem are knitted , and though this does n't suit everyone — the knitting can take a long time to dry out if it gets wet — I do n't find it unacceptable . |
| 12 | Like a wound in your own flesh , a clean cut heals quickly , but a jagged , ragged , bruised gash can take a long time to heel and is open to infection all that time . |
| 13 | Biodegradable : Materials will degrade if buried , but this can take a long time ( plastics can take hundreds of years ) . |
| 14 | It is much easier to improve ‘ performance ’ on such measures by decreasing the denominator than by increasing the numerator , which can take a long time , involves risk and has to be discounted for taxation . |
| 15 | The flight action is superb although it can take a long time to get to grips with all the features of the program . |
| 16 | Defending a petition can take a long time and be expensive . |
| 17 | Fan assisted cabinets have a very rapid recovery following an air change , whereas plate evaporator designs can take a long time to return to the correct storage temperature . |
| 18 | But it also makes everything quite difficult to fully understand as it can take a long time to see what is really being said . |
| 19 | Many conditions have to be fulfilled and eligibility established , which can take a considerable time ; so if you can improve the living conditions of your elderly parent yourself , without undue hardship , you would be well advised to do so . |
| 20 | As it can take a considerable time to effect the transfer of overseas funds to the University accounts , you are strongly advised to make arrangements well in advance . |
| 21 | If you have to go out to deliberately buy them the chances are that you wo n't but if you buy the occasional packet when you happen to see them you can have a grand time selecting them to effect a change on a sweater at the right time . |
| 22 | To say this is not the same as complaining of his acknowledgement that poor people can have a good time . |
| 23 | Let the dust settle then go for broke — by the time anyone realises what 's going on it will be too late and everyone can have a good time and relax . |
| 24 | " Some people go to work and they 're longing for the job to be finished so they can have a good time . |
| 25 | But you can have a fascinating time in Baden without paying too much attention to the spa . |
| 26 | If you are one of the faithful few who keep your machine set up and working during the summer you can have a wonderful time trying out patterns and colour schemes in between knitting those delightful little summer tops . |
| 27 | The morphological system can require a long time to obtain the syntactic information for a word . |
| 28 | The erm difference in cer some things can seem a long time ago and some are relatively recent . |
| 29 | Collection can involve a considerable time delay especially if exchange control regulations have to be satisfied . |
| 30 | Good stakes can last a long time , but it does help if they are cut some months before they are used , and well seasoned . |