Example sentences of "[verb] [be] some time " in BNC.

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1 It must have been some time after we had last met .
2 It must have been some time in August when I took those pictures , Rufus thought , and a couple of weeks later it was all over .
3 Ken commented earlier that er er prior to the Financial Services Act coming into force which I think was some time in nineteen eighty-eight , the er D T I was responsible and there come back to the D T I if these sort of things had applied and er compensation effectively by the D T I for mal-administration or whatever so that er say we do n't pretend to be pension experts , so any retrospection that I would suggest might well be appropriate as at the date of the Financial Services Act becoming into force .
4 It had been some time since I had visited Ingleborough , so last summer I went back with a couple of friends to rediscover some of its hidden treasures .
5 But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making .
6 It had been some time since they had had the chance for such indulgences .
7 But , city dweller as she had always been , she had been aware of every sound — the gentle lapping noises of the canal against the side of the boat , the small night sounds of birds and other creatures , and it had been some time before weary body and brain relaxed .
8 It had been some time now since the old pilots had been in a dog-fight , and Killion for one was sweating heavily by the time he landed .
9 Whichever way , she probably had n't given it much thought at the time and it had been some time later when her mother had told her that he had left the country and gone abroad to work .
10 It 's been some time . ’
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