Example sentences of "been [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons . |
| 2 | They 'd obviously been badly infected at some time . |
| 3 | You 've done more than you thought you 'd ever get away with and so in a sense it 's all gain from here , in fact it 's been all gain for some time and so you ca n't complain and you do n't intend to if fate deserts you now . |
| 4 | It is a two-storey mill ( now open to the public ) which he built in 1752 , though it has been much altered since that time . |
| 5 | But if I 've been away working for some time , it 's completely different . |
| 6 | Ninety-eight ( 18 per cent ) said they had been sexually abused at some time , including 82 girls — the victims of rape , incest , sexual assault or prostitution . |
| 7 | Eighteen per cent of these young people had been sexually abused at some time and 4 per cent of the females cited this as the main reason for running ( Newman , forthcoming ) . |
| 8 | It is usually considered , though , that Ptolemy made a mistake with his co-ordinates , since the distance from London to his second Salinae also coincides conveniently with the distance to Droitwich , where inland salt production had been well established since prehistoric times . |
| 9 | The pharmacology of clozapine has been closely scrutinized for some time because of the drug 's atypical effects . |