Repeated read of BME280 causing RPi to hang

I don't think this problem is specific to this library, but using the BME280 class when I'm repeatedly reading temperature, pressure and humidity I'm finding that after a short time the Raspberry Pi hangs. I'm using a Pimoroni BME280

I believe this is an issue with reading the sensor in forced mode as I can reproduce this using other libraries such as from Pimoroni.

Is there a way of not using forced mode using the API?