Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] time [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was little time for dalliance when we came out from Sunday School as I was expected to be home for tea at half-past four . |
| 2 | It was that time of year when England began to prepare for the Guy Fawkes celebrations of 5 November . |
| 3 | It was some time since Lilian 's birth . |
| 4 | As the next moonless period was in early March , there was some time for reorganization , and with the Eighth Army dug in defensively along the Gazala line there was no major offensive in the offing . |
| 5 | But more likely it was some time in London . |
| 6 | Assuming that the start of the current recession ( which on January 2nd was officially acknowledged , at last ) was some time in October , investors can look forward to the Dow tumbling to 1,800 by the late autumn of 1991 . |
| 7 | But when the business started rolling in , there was less time for arguments . |