Example sentences of "time [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drama course for professional performers which does not at the present time qualify for a mandatory award , is fully accredited by the National Council of Drama Training as is the Acting Option of the Graduate Diploma course . |
| 2 | Forty years may be a long time to wait for a 19p basic rate of tax . |
| 3 | Seven days — a week — is a long time to wait for a telephone service nowadays . |
| 4 | Mrs Freda Bastianelli , the mother of four-month-old twin boys , who has a house on the shoreline , complained that another year was a long time to wait for a possible cure . |
| 5 | Use the extra time to go for a walk around the block , or even just round the building . |
| 6 | That gave her time to go for a quick wash . |
| 7 | It had not left much time to arrange for a reception committee . |
| 8 | When the time approached for a decision on when to ground PA474 , the feeling within the RAF was that PA474 should be kept airworthy for at least another ten years , and the suggestion was made that R5868 should go to Hendon instead , as it was by far the most historical of the two Lancasters . |
| 9 | We have been told that it would be a waste of time applying for a permit for any other foreign rider . |
| 10 | He spent his time looking for a Jewish homeland that was not Palestine . |
| 11 | Equally , St Paul 's , Shadwell , was at the same time looking for a £6 fee for each iron or lead coffin deposited within a brick-lined grave in the churchyard , though their most expensive intramural location commanded a charge of only £4 18s . |
| 12 | Too many people spend too much time looking for a reason , and fail to take advantage of the simple pleasures that life offers . ’ |
| 13 | Third , the motorist did NOT ( contrry to The Scotsman 's report ) spend any time looking for a parking space or walking from it to his destination . |
| 14 | Sal continued her job as a waitress in the Commercial Road and spent all her spare time looking for a husband , while Kitty had no trouble in finding any amount of men who were happy to satisfy her every need . |
| 15 | I spent a little precious time searching for a telephone , but could n't find one . |
| 16 | Bayern Munich , Tottenham , Aston Villa , Chelsea and Everton were all linked with Hughes — as Fergie spent his time searching for a new goal star . |
| 17 | You spend less time searching for a place to work and more time actually working . |
| 18 | Rather than waste much time searching for a single , unambiguous statement specifying multimedia on which everyone will agree , we will aim instead for a working understanding of the term . |
| 19 | Time to yearn for a botty beautiful |
| 20 | Yet she sensed that now was not the time to press for a formal interview . |
| 21 | It extended the provisions of the 1965 Rent Act to tied cottage occupants in agriculture , but at the same time provided for a procedure whereby a former worker could be rehoused by the local authority where the farmer could prove that the house was essential to accommodate a replacement worker . |
| 22 | We had time to potter for a while before our train , which was hauled by ‘ Tom Rolt ’ . |
| 23 | Speculation emerged in both Manila and Washington that the plan was designed to play for sufficient time to allow for a reversal of the Senate 's decision after the election of its new President in May 1992 . |
| 24 | The distance between any two points would then he proportional to the number of neurones a message must traverse to get from one to the other ; it would also be roughly proportional to the time taken for a neural message to travel between them . |
| 25 | A significant deterioration in cognitive function was defined as two or more consecutive increments of 5% or more in the mean time taken for a correct response and of 2% or more in the error rate with the last of the five euglycaemic test scores used as baseline . |
| 26 | The challenge involves a variety of modes of transport and the time taken for a particular journey , typically a journey to work during the rush hour . |
| 27 | The rates of diffusion of two gases may be compared by measuring the time taken for a given volume of each gas to diffuse through a porous surface under identical conditions . |
| 28 | The time taken for a component to pass through the column is called its elution time . |
| 29 | Whereas the time taken for a computer working randomly but with the constraint of cumulative selection to perform the same task is of the same order as humans ordinarily can understand , between 11 seconds and the time it takes to have lunch . |
| 30 | If there is to be a time taken for a further hearing before me in relation to the question of interest and or a structured settlement , I regret that the parties will have to follow me , not purely from Chelmsford to London but thereafter to Maidstone . |