Example sentences of "[conj] has been [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 My hon. Friend raises a point that has been raised many times before .
2 As long ago as 1915 Scott published the first research on interviews showing that 6 personnel managers could not agree about a common set of applicants , a finding that has been replicated innumerable times and will be reflected in the personal experience of most interviewers .
3 One of the many highlights is the view down Loch Shiel from Glenfinnan , a vista that has been reproduced many times on gaudy retouched 60s ' postcards , and on calendars handed out at Christmas by firms who manufacture ball-bearings .
4 The current head of state , President Omar Bongo , succeeded to the Presidency in 1967 on the death of Gabon 's first President , Léon M'Ba , and has been re-elected three times for successive seven-year terms , most recently in November 1986 [ see p. 35047 ] .
5 The first of these aid and trade agreements was signed in 1975 and has been renewed four times .
6 The latter has a chequered history and has been altered several times within its life in Poland .
7 The village is well known for its flowers , and has been rewarded several times with a place in the Britain in Bloom Competition .
8 The fact that NTS have deliberately cut publicity about Ben Lawers is not new and has been reported many times .
9 Spielberg , accustomed to close encounters in the extra-terrestrial sphere , has offered to be creative consultant on a drama-documentary loosely based upon the book , which has sold over 300,000 hardback copies in the UK and has been reprinted fourteen times .
10 As has been said many times ( certainly by me ) , it is the easiest thing in the world to write a review of an unimportant book .
11 Beveridge 's scheme was not , as has been stressed many times , revolutionary .
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