Example sentences of "is [verb] some time " in BNC.

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1 If you are acting for a builder-seller selling a new dwelling and the builder is on the National House-Building Council 's register ( Chapter 13 ) , you may not , unless the property is completed some time before completion of the sale , have received the standard notice of insurance cover to hand over , in which case you will give an undertaking to do so as soon as it comes to hand .
2 With static systems , recognition is performed some time after the handwriting has been produced .
3 An election is promised some time next year , but critics are alarmed by the appointment of Sheikh Salem as deputy prime minister and foreign minister ; in his old job as interior minister , Sheikh Salem had no time for the regime 's opponents .
4 Shoppers in Abingdon must be hoping an agreement is reached some time before the next century .
5 What the better libraries have done is to spend some time contacting shareware authors and acting as their representative .
6 The perfect way to learn a foreign language is to spend some time with the native speakers of that language .
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