Example sentences of "one time have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nor do I. ’ He smiled at her , and she smiled gently back at the tall , grey-haired , spare-framed man , whose brown eyes were so like her own , and whose hair at one time had been auburn , too , not a grizzled grey as it was now . |
| 2 | Rowland used The Observer to fight non-media battles , notably over control of the Harrods store , which at one time had been part of the House of Fraser group . |
| 3 | So the Fosse Way , which at one time had been the main road from medieval Coventry to Leicester , was ordered in the Sharnford award of 1765 to be ‘ of the same width as it hath heretofore usually been ’ . |
| 4 | The census returns show that the majority of Camberwell 's population at any one time had been born in London — 65 per cent in 1861 ; 76 per cent in 1911 — but many families had moved frequently from district to district and from street to street . |
| 5 | One might imagine , perhaps wrongly , that there would have been few craftsmen who either alone or in a group would at any one time have been capable of producing such an item because of the variety of skills required in its production . |
| 6 | As followers of these pages will know , this project was at one time to have been directed by a America 's leading connoisseur of chaos , lunacy and bad taste , John Waters ( who made Pink Flamingos and Hairspray ) . |