Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then it has been many times re-invented and used for 3D picture postcards . |
| 2 | But in the midst of the holocaust wrought by long-term unemployment on the jobless , there has been little time to examine the effect of the current climate on the working population . |
| 3 | In addition , bail may also be denied if the court thinks it necessary for the defendant 's own protection , if there has been insufficient time to enable the court to obtain enough information to reach a decision , or if the defendant has previously failed to answer to bail . |
| 4 | Since then it has been three times enlarged , in width , length and depth . |
| 5 | At the same time Brotherton ( 1983 ) using documentary evidence has demonstrated that the rate of afforestation has been three times greater outside the National Parks . |
| 6 | From April 1 , 1989 , the limit for advice and assistance provided to a petitioner for divorce or judicial separation has been three times the sum for preparation for magistrates ' court criminal proceedings ; and in other cases , two times that sum . |
| 7 | Lalande wrote of him in 1763 : ‘ Sisson has been several times in prison for failing to pay his workmen [ of whom Jesse Ramsden , q.v. , was one ] ; he starts many things and finishes nothing : he takes his instruments to the pawnbroker , where they have been seen selling for a tenth of their value . |
| 8 | The lad next to me he 'd been three times ! |
| 9 | ‘ If only there 'd been more time , ’ said Kelly , ‘ I 'd have tried to help her work out a clear-cut characterisation , but we had a tight schedule and I left it up to her . ’ |
| 10 | In that era , so much of the day was spent climbing in and out of the correct clothes that there ca n't have been much time left for recreation . |
| 11 | That should have been six times nought point two over |
| 12 | The government of the day would not be promoting the Bill , and it would not have been allocated time in its legislative programme , unless the government had considered the matter in considerable detail and decided more or less exactly upon the Bill it desired . |
| 13 | Typically , 20 or 30s was required for a full evaluation using all the equations , though processing could have been ten times as quick with an 80287 fitted . |
| 14 | It must have been some time after we had last met . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She was the daughter of a respected and well-to-do burgess of Lynne ( as King 's Lynn was then called ) who had been five times Mayor , and Alderman of the High Guild of the Trinity . |
| 17 | Good times , yes , they had been good times … |
| 18 | Daly stressed the narrowness of most reefs and showed , from examples where the rate of reef growth is known , that there had been ample time in the Post-glacial period for the growth of modern reefs . |
| 19 | Although it could be argued that it is not really chronology continuing ( as suggested by the chapter title ) because there had been insufficient time specification before 1950 , the sequence of this chapter proceeds from the basic foundations , to the alternative models , to sea level changes , Quaternary geography and hence to the prospect of environmental change . |
| 20 | But there had been strange times since then , and they 'd put Gentle in an apter mood for this study . |
| 21 | He said there had been sufficient time to bring an action , and awarded costs against the parents . |
| 22 | Bill had been enough times to a morgue . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 25 | It had been some time since they had had the chance for such indulgences . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Oh , they had been happier times ! |
| 30 | And how quick it had been this time ! |