Example sentences of "be [adv] some time [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be quite some time before all your suggestions are processed in details but I know you will be interested in some of the preliminary findings . |
| 2 | In fact there is nothing fixed about such interpretations , because the way the fossils are understood may change over the years , but it is usually some time before new discoveries percolate into the popular presentations . |
| 3 | What he would have really profited from at the beginning , he believes , was a coach and it was only some time after he joined the Vets movement that he found the next best thing , encouragement and advice from a distinguished Vet member of Cambridge Harriers , David Coward . |
| 4 | It was quite some time since I had last played and , inhaling huge lungfuls of air as I did so , I looked forward keenly to demolishing my opponent with my supra-sonic service , my cunning topspins , bottomspins , sidespins , every-this-and-thatspins . |
| 5 | Again it was quite some time before the connections were made and this information was fed into the collective consciousness of local government . |