Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.

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1 Naturally the next field in which to try out this half-truth was politics , where people have been trying since the time of Demosthenes to fool all of the people all of the time .
2 Some pits have been reprieved for the time being , but the closure programme may simply be delayed , the price of buying off political defeat being a £500 million subsidy over the next two years .
3 The annual sub will vary between £200 for men and £65 for juveniles , but entrance fees have been waived for the time being .
4 Old feuds have been forgotten for the time being .
5 Mass strandings have been known since the time of the ancient Greeks ; Aristotle himself recorded them .
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