Example sentences of "been the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The definition of a second has since officially been the time it takes a cesium atom to make 9,192,631,770 vibrations . |
| 2 | It must have been the time of the miners ' strike and the three-day week , though the chronology is all a blur now . |
| 3 | Often , and particularly with those individuals who have spent long hours in heavy manual labour , there has perhaps not been the time or energy to develop such interests or hobbies . |
| 4 | The real barrier has been the time spent apart , he says . |
| 5 | The extra ten minutes had probably only been the time it had taken them to find him . |
| 6 | For years , this has been the time when small bands of mushroom pickers wander through the forests . |
| 7 | This may have been the time when Nero and his advisers were concerned about Britain . |
| 8 | This would also have been the time for naked women on horseback to lead the community out into the fields , bearing symbols of fertility to ensure a plentiful harvest . |
| 9 | He would not talk about it , and you knew not to ask more , but you realised that it must have been the time in his life when he most resembled himself . |
| 10 | There had been the time , too , when Ruth made a painting of a dragon devouring a knight which had apparently scared another child . |
| 11 | The model for southeast England has been refined and developed and one reason for its modification has been the time allocated to mid-Tertiary earth movements as it was appreciated that these ‘ outer ripples of the Alpine storm ’ may have continued for longer than was at first envisaged . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's never been the time . ’ |
| 13 | We did walk somewhere one time and erm very very nice the it must have been the time when the salmon were riverside walk . |