Example sentences of "a [adj] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if ever there was a right time it was now . |
| 2 | Hannah may have gone without most of the comforts that people take for granted , but at least she had emotional warmth and stability , wrapped as she was in the cocoon of a caring family — her mother , her grandparents , and for a little time her tragic father , all around her . |
| 3 | Why not join our band of Volunteers — even if you can spare a little time you will always be welcome . |
| 4 | The basic shape is very easy to make , but if you do have a little time you might want to give the dragon more elaborate scales . |
| 5 | well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself |
| 6 | So after it happened a few times our teacher said ‘ We wo n't have cooking like this any more . ’ |
| 7 | That you se it was , it was on here a few times he talks deliberately , and rather slow |
| 8 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 9 | When you 've been through this a few times you 'll |
| 10 | Yeah , we stopped a few times you know in the |
| 11 | Listening , as you become more comfortable and you become , you 've done it a few times you know what you 're gon na have to say and then you , you er , you listen more carefully to the answers . |
| 12 | I can also , if I erm come across the same problem a few times I could hopefully work on that and then probably eradicate altogether . |
| 13 | A few times I sat down in the kitchen and almost told mum but changed my mind . |
| 14 | I think there 's a few times I was gon na pack in cos I used to do the same amount of work as everyone else and I got paid |
| 15 | I remember once , yeah it was like that , yeah that 's right , not one , but a few times I used to get on the train from Runcorn to Liverpool , I had an address to go to in Liverpool , rough directions how to get there , to pick up a suit or to pick up a fitting , you know you 'd get the , the different |
| 16 | mimics them and that , oh I hate that , I hate that as I say a few times I thought to myself I do not like |
| 17 | I thought after a few times she 'll stop and she 'll accept it . |
| 18 | The big dog had snapped it from his fingers eagerly enough , but after rolling it around in her mouth a few times she spat it to the floor and pawed at it , growling and sniffing her distaste . |
| 19 | A few times she shouted at them , saying that they were disturbing the peace of the neighbourhood , but this did not discourage them ; a few evenings later they would come back with new songs . |
| 20 | If a black pupil comes to see her a few times she automatically labels them as troublemakers . |
| 21 | A few times she was aware that he was watching her , but managed every time to resist the temptation to look up , unsure of just what she might see in his eyes . |
| 22 | I mean , when our Bon was learning I went with her a few times she frightened the life out of me ! |
| 23 | A selection of pre-1700 books fetched two and a half times its valuation ; a sale of duplicate art portfolios and fine printing had the ‘ big boys ’ from London falling over each other … |
| 24 | The ship , carrying two and a half times its normal load of passengers , was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland at 6 a. m. on 2 July 1940 . |
| 25 | Should we not also still go for the , if we can , the one and a half times they work Saturdays ? |
| 26 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 27 | in England , it is two and a half times what is raised presently in Wales . |
| 28 | By 1990 cash spending on the NHS was two and a half times what it had been in 1979 , topping £27 billion and making the DOH the second largest spending department ( NAHAT 1990 ) . |
| 29 | Do you know how much it was when we got our first house , just before we were married , it was n't two and a half times your salary , it was one and a half times our salary |
| 30 | Do you know how much it was when we got our first house , just before we were married , it was n't two and a half times your salary , it was one and a half times our salary |