Example sentences of "been [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daly stressed the narrowness of most reefs and showed , from examples where the rate of reef growth is known , that there had been ample time in the Post-glacial period for the growth of modern reefs . |
| 2 | But there had been strange times since then , and they 'd put Gentle in an apter mood for this study . |
| 3 | Her concern , until then , had always been that Time ( or the house ) would prevent him from reaching her , stop them from being able to meet , remove the opportunity , once and for all , for her to feel again as she had done last night , leaving her for ever empty and unsatisfied . |
| 4 | But in the midst of the holocaust wrought by long-term unemployment on the jobless , there has been little time to examine the effect of the current climate on the working population . |
| 5 | Be that as it may , though many exciting things have happened to physics in the interim , there has not been another time since 1925 when the foundations have been shaken , the paradigm shifted , our view of the world transformed . |
| 6 | It had been some time since I had visited Ingleborough , so last summer I went back with a couple of friends to rediscover some of its hidden treasures . |
| 7 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 8 | It must have been some time after we had last met . |
| 9 | It must have been some time in August when I took those pictures , Rufus thought , and a couple of weeks later it was all over . |
| 10 | It had been some time since they had had the chance for such indulgences . |
| 11 | But , city dweller as she had always been , she had been aware of every sound — the gentle lapping noises of the canal against the side of the boat , the small night sounds of birds and other creatures , and it had been some time before weary body and brain relaxed . |
| 12 | It had been some time now since the old pilots had been in a dog-fight , and Killion for one was sweating heavily by the time he landed . |
| 13 | It 's been some time . ’ |
| 14 | Whichever way , she probably had n't given it much thought at the time and it had been some time later when her mother had told her that he had left the country and gone abroad to work . |
| 15 | That must of been some time ago |
| 16 | And how quick it had been this time ! |
| 17 | ‘ And that 's where he had been this time ? ’ |
| 18 | In that era , so much of the day was spent climbing in and out of the correct clothes that there ca n't have been much time left for recreation . |
| 19 | Since 1914 only ten British officers had ever been six times decorated for gallantry and one of these , Braham , who in 1951 was awarded the AFC for hazardous developmental work on all-weather fighter aircraft , uniquely achieved a seventh decoration . |
| 20 | That should have been six times nought point two over |
| 21 | This letter is incomplete in the Darlington collection , but it obviously contained much of use to Bartram whose draft reply ( in the Library of the American Philosophical Society ) dated February 1759 stated that had the postage been three times more he would not have missed it . |
| 22 | Since then it has been three times enlarged , in width , length and depth . |
| 23 | At the same time Brotherton ( 1983 ) using documentary evidence has demonstrated that the rate of afforestation has been three times greater outside the National Parks . |
| 24 | From April 1 , 1989 , the limit for advice and assistance provided to a petitioner for divorce or judicial separation has been three times the sum for preparation for magistrates ' court criminal proceedings ; and in other cases , two times that sum . |
| 25 | The servants say the doctor 's been three times but been forced to leave again without seeing him . |
| 26 | The lad next to me he 'd been three times ! |
| 27 | Oh , they had been happier times ! |
| 28 | Since then it has been many times re-invented and used for 3D picture postcards . |
| 29 | There have been many times in history when Christianity has faced extreme difficulty . |
| 30 | There have been many times when I could n't write . |