Example sentences of "[verb] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman said about one-third of the sewage load from the town is due to be diverted some time this year to a new treatment plant . |
| 2 | And I thought you might want to go some time anyway er , not on a Sunday . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been thinking , ’ he said , ‘ we ought to ask Ianthe Broome 's uncle to preach some time . |
| 4 | The congregation here was formed some time after 1690 though the present church building only dates from 1879 . |
| 5 | The cave was formed some time during the early part of the Pleistocene , over one million years ago , and it became filled with sediment during the middle Pleistocene approximately 350 to 400 thousand years ago . |
| 6 | I am delighted that we will continue that process under my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State in the new Parliament which will be formed some time late next spring or in the summer . |
| 7 | Cash with order or cash on delivery is always better than cash some time in the future . |
| 8 | Her sole purpose in being here was to kill some time . |
| 9 | Formal nursing courses reflect these concerns , but there is at present no mechanism for updating the knowledge of those who qualified some time ago . |
| 10 | But we ask you to spare some time during the holiday to think of those who are less fortunate . |
| 11 | If you are seriously contemplating taking your skills abroad , then it may be advisable to invest some time in updating yourself at home first . |
| 12 | So he decided he needed to invest some time in , in that . |
| 13 | ‘ Any woman can have a confident and attractive aura if she is prepared to invest some time , energy and a little money into evolving her own personal style ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I expect she 'll let you and Oliver come and stay some time . |
| 15 | How the Other Half Lives A divorced woman rings her ex-spouse : Perhaps you could spare some time to see the children on Saturday … |
| 16 | He hoped she would spare some time for him and he promised he would not ask her to act in anything . |
| 17 | In 23 patients ( group A ) biliary tract calculi were present either at the time of diagnosis ( 14 patients ) ( Fig 1 ) or subsequently developed some time after the diagnosis of sclerosing cholangitis had been made ( nine patients ) . |
| 18 | The two groups returned safely to Jalo , where they had to wait some time for news of Jock Lewes and Bill Fraser . |
| 19 | They might have to wait some time … . |
| 20 | ‘ It is very enjoyable but one of the disadvantages is that when you start out you can be put low on a list after others and you may have to wait some time . |
| 21 | Others who may well have had reservations about him ( though we shall probably have to wait some time before their reflections can be made available to us ) were the oil-company spokesmen to whom he advanced new facts of life during the earnestly disputed discussions between OPEC and the major companies in Tehran in December 1973 . |
| 22 | There they had to wait some time until the Constable could find the key and lock the door on them . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll try and make some time . |
| 24 | They met some time in ‘ thirty-eight , I gather . |
| 25 | I have a feeling that an international conference of television executives met some time later , hoping to improve on this . |
| 26 | Observations from the Earth of the east-west motion of small features in the Jovian clouds led some time ago to a sidereal rotation period for the equatorial region of 9h 50m 30.003s , and 9h 55m 40.632s for the rest of Jupiter . |
| 27 | The school trip was an example of massive disorganized organization : every minute of every day was officially occupied , and Clara wasted some time before she realized that nobody in the whole world would care or even notice whether she attended each event or not . |
| 28 | It had been awkward for me to ask our family doctor to prescribe it : he knew my husband and I had parted some time ago . |
| 29 | Pinnacle , based in Columbus , Ohio , had originally planned to use the Texas Instruments Inc 64-bit SuperSparc that Sun is using in its latest workstations , but realised some time ago that it was waiting at the back of a long line of manufacturers queuing for a trickle of SuperSparcs being thrown their way . |
| 30 | ‘ Where are we going ? ’ she asked some time later . |