Example sentences of "rather a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wolfgang , meanwhile , was having rather a good time in Vienna on his own , staying sometimes with his friends Leutgeb the horn-player and the Puchbergs , who kept him fed , and going out drinking with an old friend , Emmanuel Schikaneder , an actor , singer , writer and producer and the manager of the Theater auf der Wieden in the suburbs . |
| 2 | Fergus laughed rather a long time at this , and said tersely , ‘ I should . ’ |
| 3 | It 's just going to take rather a long time making them admit it . ’ |
| 4 | You take rather a long time sometimes to find something that fits in but you do in the end . ’ |
| 5 | The pope did not send him a pallium until June 634 and , given the long-standing papal concern with the well-being of the church of Canterbury , a three-year interval between Honorius ' appointment and the sending of a pallium would seem to be rather a long time . |
| 6 | ‘ Three years , I admit , is rather a long time . |
| 7 | But she was aware that she had been preoccupied a lot of the time , all too aware of the mountain of work before her , and that it was rather a long time since she and her daughter had had any special outings together . |
| 8 | Six years alone is rather a long time . ’ |
| 9 | Sorry to have taken rather a long time to reply but Andrew was in transit back to and around Italy . |
| 10 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 11 | Frankly , I 'd respond more if a chap came up to me and said , ‘ Look here , we 've been doing this for rather a long time now and we find that this way seems to bring the best results . ’ ’ |
| 12 | It took Corps rather a long time to adjust , I believe . |
| 13 | It will , I suspect , be rather a long time before historians adopt SGML-authoring software as their own . |
| 14 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 15 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 16 | It 's rather a long time is n't it ? |
| 17 | No that 's not I just thought to change a wash , cos I think they 've been on there rather a long time . |
| 18 | As we saw in the case of the bacteria on a pin 's head , successive splittings into two can generate a very large number of cells in rather a short time . |
| 19 | Now in this respect , of course , twenty-five years is rather a short time in the life of a university , and a good deal of this time has been spent in building up a research base , and now , as you mentioned in your erm remarks a few moments ago , Andrew , we have an enviable research record in a very wide range of disciplines . |