Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been true at any time between four and 25 years after marriage . |
| 2 | Two of the local clowns , Richard Clarke ( Mary 's son ) and Ian Cross , who had lived in Bellerby all their lives , said this would have been unthinkable at one time — when they were children everybody knew everybody else , and what went on . |
| 3 | This may have been true at one time , when the vast majority of commuters were middle-class , but it does not apply in the postwar period when large numbers of commuters have been ‘ reluctant ’ villagers , constrained by the availability of cheap housing to living in the countryside ( Pahl 1965b ) . |
| 4 | None of them could have been happy at that time . |
| 5 | Griffith could not prepare or test fibres thinner than about a ten thousandth of an inch ( 2.5 m ) and , if he had , it would have been difficult at that time to measure the thickness with any sort of accuracy . |
| 6 | At a time when over one third of the economically active population aged under 25 have been unemployed at some time in the last 12 months , the prospects of reaching 80 per cent owner-occupation without drastic policy changes seem dim ( Social Trends 15 , Table 4.26 ) . |