Example sentences of "have been time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may have been times during your working life when you have not , either knowingly or unwittingly , paid national insurance contributions . |
| 2 | If the surface of the earth was covered to a depth of one metre in protein molecules , each one different from every other one , and if each molecule changed into another one once a second , and had done so since the origin of the earth , there would have been time to try out only a minute fraction of the possible sequences . |
| 3 | There would have been time . |
| 4 | ( 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 . ) |
| 5 | We should have realized at the time that in the emergency of AD 196 there would not have been time to build walls round town defences . |
| 6 | And that would have been time enough if you had n't shot your mouth off and brought that foul man roaring round here … ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yet , in the model described above , there would not have been time since the big bang for light to get from one distant region to another , even though the regions were close together in the early universe . |
| 10 | It would have been time to win them with clemency later , when they knew his power and will to dominate , and could be stunned into love by the unexpected mercy . |
| 11 | But it was Friday she did it , and Thursday we were expecting her , so there would have been time when she had . |