Example sentences of "a [adj] time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We hope you have had a pleasant time wherever you have been . |
| 2 | It is a little time when we can talk together , and I encourage her to talk about her father . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know what kind of madness overtook me , ’ he said , ‘ but a little time ago I made a contract with somebody to have her killed . ’ |
| 4 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |
| 5 | ‘ Cocoa ? ’ she offered , coming in a little time later , carrying a small tray with three enamel mugs of steaming beverage on it , and a plate of Marie biscuits . |
| 6 | So we 've got a little time left . |
| 7 | ‘ Maybe we should take a little time out … just the two of us … |
| 8 | He had seen Mael-Isu drop a little time back , and the Strathclyde pennant had suddenly gone . |
| 9 | Do not feel guilty about giving yourself a little time off occasionally like this . |
| 10 | I took a little time off in Rome to do some shopping . |
| 11 | After all , everything was sown and the harvest was still some weeks away , so I could afford a little time off . |
| 12 | I am only suggesting that you take a little time off , shall we say , until you are quite well again ? " |
| 13 | This perhaps supports the criticism that the Queen 's advisers should not have allowed her to be urged into an immediate invitation to Lord Home and that she should have taken at least a little time fully to apprise herself of the changing political situation and of the views of the Conservative leadership , as it was then emerging . |
| 14 | The city spread out below her looked so calm , almost as calm as she had felt such a little time before . |
| 15 | We 're all going to have a terrific time together , you know that , do n't you ? ’ |
| 16 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 17 | Do you crave a drink at a definite time daily ? 15 . |
| 18 | Although you should make a specific time when candidates can ask their own questions you should also allow time for questions which arise naturally at an earlier stage of the interview . |
| 19 | She could not recall a specific time when it had been moved . |
| 20 | To avoid inconvenience it may be scheduled to run at a specific time when LIFESPAN itself is not required . |
| 21 | Did they say a specific time then ? |
| 22 | Many resorts claim you 'll have a fabulous time there , but I 've found one that really lives up to its promises . |
| 23 | no , it 's your birthday have a swinging time on |
| 24 | I believe that I will always remember it , even though it was quite a few years ago and even though it has recurred quite a few times since . |
| 25 | ‘ Yeah , and she 's been in a few times since . |
| 26 | Blinked a few times instead and told him in a croaky voice that I 'd met Erica Upton twice and had sat next to her at dinner . |
| 27 | Tension in the neck and shoulders can be eased by circling the shoulders up and around a few times backwards and forwards and by circling your head slowly down to your chest and then up so that your neck is stretched with your chin in the air . |
| 28 | There was a game they 'd played a few times when Edith was out of the house , a rough-and-tumble sort of thing , perfectly harmless . |
| 29 | Oh we did that a few times when the , the borders were closed with |
| 30 | We 'll try it a few times just to put it all into practice . |