Example sentences of "be a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would then be a useful time to engage in the brainstorming process to generate additional topics for individual investigations and give practice in applying the selection criteria . |
| 2 | Your sister will have been busy rehearsing , must be a hectic time for her . |
| 3 | What would be a reasonable time span before we should review your position ? |
| 4 | There will therefore be a reasonable time within which the seller will be able to reject the buyer 's terms . |
| 5 | But since then , there has never seemed to be a right time . |
| 6 | But all in all , it seems likely to be a long time before we reach that ‘ Utopian world of RDS ’ for all listeners in cars , at home or on foot ! |
| 7 | But it will be a long time before that system is fully installed . |
| 8 | It 'll be a long time before you 'd eat any of those flowers . ’ |
| 9 | Forty years may be a long time to wait for a 19p basic rate of tax . |
| 10 | It 'll be a long time before the word ‘ mother ’ becomes as dirty a word as he suggested it would . |
| 11 | It would be a long time before all of this changed very much — and certainly it had not by the time of the Crowther Report in 1959 ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 12 | Tom equalled the championship record of 276 with a 70 and I thought it would be a long time before it would be broken . |
| 13 | It would be a long time before anyone inherited — and his sons knew that sooner or later Henry would take something from them to give to the youngest of them all , John . |
| 14 | It was to be a long time before any disciples appeared to revitalize the game , and even after Busby , Shankly , Clough and others the cry still goes up ( not always reasonably ) that football is too negative . |
| 15 | Since it will be a long time before the reflective process turns into action plans , we shall have to make do with what we already know and for the purposes of this chapter we can relate it to Level Three Partnership . |
| 16 | American manufacturers share this scepticism , ‘ It will be a long time before there 's any international graphics standard , ’ says Dave Robertson , head of the US company Computervision 's British operation . |
| 17 | The TRW group is working on the same lines-but it will be a long time before GI Joe puts his faith in orders from General Computer . |
| 18 | But we are assured it will be a long time before we see bingo or boobs in the sober pages of BRE News . |
| 19 | Nevertheless it could be a long time before any human decisions acquired sufficient accord to be entered as units of ‘ goodness ’ and assigned to the Created God . |
| 20 | It must be a long time , he thought , since Dad had travelled this far . |
| 21 | ‘ It will be a long time before I see you again , Willie , ’ she said . |
| 22 | The green shoots of recovery may now be twitching but it will be a long time before the unemployment figures level off . |
| 23 | Although it will probably be a long time before we are prepared to let robots perform operations on us , Pam will be ready for trials next year , and her potential for cutting the 750,000 nursing days lost each year through back strain may make her popular with medical staff and patients alike . |
| 24 | Some , like Denis O'Flaherty , who was in hospital for two years , would be a long time returning to the fight . |
| 25 | The idea was to move away from an elitist and centralist view of things , yet it was to be a long time before such changes were implemented in the Government 's media , and it might well be argued that they have not progressed very far to this day . |
| 26 | ‘ It will be a long time before Patrick walks unaided but I know he will swing along with his sticks and be independent . |
| 27 | ‘ He will never be sold while I am chairman — which will be a long time yet — or while Barry Fry is manager , ’ he added . |
| 28 | As his biographer has pointed out it was to be a long time ‘ before he had an equal in the study of archaeology on a scientific basis or as an illustrator of archaeological relics ’ ( Jessup 1975 , p. 109 ) . |
| 29 | It must be a long time since they were cleaned ; they are very dirty . |
| 30 | On Microsoft 's Windows New Technology , the Sun chief told Wall Street last week that he reckoned ‘ it 'll be a long time before information managers start drinking that Kool-Aid . ’ |