Example sentences of "a [adj] time there " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the evidence for these legends is drawn from some rather vague references by the Greek historian Plato , in particular a passage in his Timaeus : ‘ But at a later time there occurred portentous earthquakes and floods , and one grievous day and night befell them when the whole body . |
| 2 | For a brief time there was a respite from conflict . |
| 3 | For a long time there was no sound inside , then the door opened . |
| 4 | For a long time there was a tradition that the mill took its name from a period in 1629 , when The Crown had 610 guns cast for The States General of Holland . |
| 5 | For a long time there has been a choice , but very few seem to have realised it . |
| 6 | For a long time there had been no one else for him because he refused to compromise . |
| 7 | For a long time there were few specialized tradesmen : most farm workers made their own tools and carried out their own running repairs , until the spread of cheaply manufactured iron began to displace wood , and more sophisticated craftsmanship was called for . |
| 8 | It seems an obvious assumption that these relatively simple organisms appeared very early in the history of life , but for a long time there was no proof that they actually did so . |
| 9 | A commonly held example of such an error comes not from neuroscience but from genetics , where for a long time there was a rather simple-minded assumption that the physiology and behaviour of an organism ( its phenotype ) could be arbitrarily divided into two components , one given by the genes , the other by the environment . |
| 10 | For a long time there had been a struggle for supremacy between the established church , the Quakers , the Catholics and the Congregationalists . |
| 11 | For a long time there was silence . |
| 12 | Archbishop Eames said : ‘ I have believed for a long time there is a crying need for the Churches to examine the problem of sectarianism in depth . |
| 13 | It might be education , it might be knowledge , interest can be another one er relaxation , romance , having a good time there are a whole se sequence of different reasons . |
| 14 | Without concentrations of activity at a given place at a given time there would be no patterns , no spatial or areal differentiation . |
| 15 | As a conscious exercise in boosting public morale at a difficult time there was a real danger of over-indulgence in wishful thinking ; it would be a cruel delusion to anticipate too many rabbits out of the hat , only to be fobbed off by the patter of the conjurer . |
| 16 | So yes the answer to the question is yes there is a budget there is a budget and we need to do things now one of the problems could be the budget is n't sufficient to cover all that needs doing so I think you 'll find that the building been built at a certain time there a comes a time you 've got plan a maintenance programme which we have things need to be done . |
| 17 | After a prescribed time there is another ceremony that marks the end of mourning and this also is extremely helpful to the bereaved person . |