Example sentences of "been time for " in BNC.

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1 Since the slump of 1921 there has been a prevailing tendency , occasionally interrupted but invariably resumed before there has been time for a real recovery towards parsimony and restriction .
2 This is to ask whether there has been time for natural selection to specify the DNA present in the human genome .
3 Both Nicaragua and Cuba have seen significant changes for women , but the Cuban example is particularly instructive , since there has been time for new gender roles to develop .
4 Fewer papers should be taken at very short notice before there has been time for the Departments to comment on them .
5 There simply has n't been time for the body to clear the first lot before it 's topped up with a second dose of alcohol .
6 Of course there had been time for two moves in the interim .
7 For one thing , there had not been time for the more remotely-seated lords to arrive , if indeed many of them heeded the summons ; and the Balliol supporters , of course , remained absent .
8 ( However , Peter Burge , the former Australian batsman who was the ICC 's match referee throughout this series , said afterwards that there would have been time for one over if a wicket had fallen in the same Tufnell over . )
9 Although they have worked together for so many years , there has still been time for individual projects and exhibitions : François-Xavier has moved on from vegetable architecture to monumental fountains and sculptures ; Claude 's ventures include jewellery and bronze furniture for an American garden , stage props for Bob Wilson and breastplates for the angels in Wim Wenders ' film ‘ Wings of Desire ’ .
10 I would have sworn there had n't been time for you to make any kind of progress since last night .
11 He did the same to the soldiers ' barracks and police stations ; there may have been time for the policemen to read seventy-five years ago but not today .
12 Even when the preference is weak , the switch will not occur unless there has been time for the predators to learn how to handle the other ( now abundant ) species .
13 ‘ I have written to Joe about it , ’ Maureen said , ‘ but there has n't been time for a reply yet . ’
14 Between then and now there would not have been time for Newley to drive down to Miller 's End , walk to the gazebo , get himself killed and become as cold as he was .
15 In Chemicals Manufacturing at Royston and Brimsdown it has been time for change .
16 In the defence of Verdun , it will be recalled , de Castelnau had already rendered an invaluable service in the ‘ Intermediary Line ’ , hastily constructed as a result of his coup d'oeil in January , and — had there been time for the completion of the Third Position that he had also prescribed then — there seems a chance that the German breakthrough on the 24th might have been prevented altogether .
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